
The False Promise of "Adopt now, and all will adapt"
It’s the most widespread lie across IT. Translated from seller to buyer, it says: just buy our stuff, it’s great, pretty soon everyone will have it and then you’ll have the advantage over all the others. It’s how hypes made it in, trends, useful stuff too, but also ERP and CRM trying to take the […]

Old meets new world: enterprise UX
A few days ago, I got a message from Derek Singleton of Software Advice telling me about a survey they’re conducting: Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications is what it is called Software Advice apparently is a company offering free advice for software buyers, and although I don’t have […]

Integration: your place or mine? Adopt vs adapt
Adopt versus adapt is the central theme in Integration. For the last 15 years, it’s been the central question in my working life: who will adopt, and who will have to adapt? It is the most important question, as doing business is not only about mutual understanding and partnerships, but also about flattering “kings, princes […]

Presentation and content hardly ever go along
After the publication of Digital Surgeons’ Facebook versus Twitter infographic this week, it got quickly republished everywhere, and ReTweeted. Currently, the words “facebook twitter infographic” still get 4.2 tweets per minute Pretty huge hey? GigaOm, TheNextWeb and ZDNet are a few of those who republished the nice and shiny graphic- apparently called infographic these days […]