The SI is dead. Long live the Supplier Integrator
Have we reached peak SI is a splendid post by Peter Evans Greenwood about the changing IT world. On one side of the boxing ring there is the traditional system integrator, on the other side there is a multitude of change agents: Business taking back budget for IT spend from local IT On-demand and on-time [...]
The apprentice- master model
Jon Reed made the following statement on Twitter: Marin accused Deloitte of using project as “a trial-and-error training ground” for junior consultants. Panelists: please react #focuserprt My answer: very common Growth. How do you grow people from skill A to skill B? The eternal question. For we are struggling with that question in our personal [...]
A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition
I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope with the change, the company plans to recruit up to 1,000 staff this year, predominantly [...]
Inside The Box
Last week, Cisco (and thecloudcast.net) all round good guy, Brian Gracely, posted a very thought provoking piece entitled “The 5 P’s of Cloud Computing“. In the blog post, Gracely uses his strikingly simple yet very powerful framework to drive home a rather obvious, yet seemingly hard-to-grasp concept – not everything about cloud computing success is [...]
Ask not what your company can do for you, …?
John F Kennedy to me was one of the finest presidents of the US. Shot and killed before I was even born, but still. During his inaugural address on January 20th 1961, one of his now famous quotes was: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for [...]
Why Visuals Are So Important
In my opinion effective visuals are one of the greatest assets that a consultant possesses. However, we’re not just talking about pretty pictures, heck any designer can come up with pretty pictures. What I’m talking about is a way to visualize information in a simple way that makes sense to the client. I recently saw Dan [...]
Dachis Acquisition Machine Reaches the 2.0 Adoption Council
Emerging Enterprise 2.0 Consultancy the Dachis Group has just acquired The 2.0 Adoption Council. I have mixed feelings about the deal. On one hand I am happy for Susan Scrupski, fellow Enterprise Irregular and E2.0 evangelist / thought leader. On the other hand I would have preferred to see the Council remain independent – I’ve [...]
10 Reasons When you know it is time to fire your Client
Everyone in consulting at some point has reached the end of the rope with a client, either through nonpayment, not listening, or any number of reasons that someone can come up with. Not all businesses are built equally and even though they will hire a very high priced client, when they stop listening, or when [...]
Choose Your VC Investor Carefully
Beware of VC Seagulls, who shit on you and then fly away (or worse yet leave you with Red Herrings) This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. I like to say to first-time entrepreneurs, picking a VC is more permanent than [...]
@jowyang and the Circle of Life
A hot news item out of Silicon Valley is that my old friend Jeremiah Owyang has left Forrester Research to form the equivalent of a rock supergroup by joining Charlene Li, Ray Wang, and Deb Schulz at Altimeter. This is great news for all of those aforementioned rockstars, but it is also a classic example [...]
