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“The Mechanical Turk… was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854 it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was eventually revealed to be an elaborate hoax. The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess […]
“If [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” Derek Sivers. The sharing economy has made a deluge of information available to us at negligible cost. We have more information available at our fingertips than we can ever consume and process. So why don’t we all have massive bank balances […]
“Relationships with the things we ‘consume’ (rather than ‘own’) are increasing, and are being governed by ongoing supply arrangements between customers and vendors. What sits at the heart of these relationships, from a financial perspective, is billing. The entity that has the billing relationship with the customer essentially ‘owns’ the customer – they have the […]
OSS can be complicated beasts with many tentacles. It can make starting a new project daunting. When I start, I like to use a WBS to show all the tentacles (people, processes, technology, contracts) on a single page, then look for the lead domino (or dominoes). A lead domino is the first piece, the one […]
Grupo Gtd Selects Netcracker’s Comprehensive BSS, OSS and Virtualization Suite as the Foundation for Digital Transformation. NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced that Grupo Gtd has selected the Netcracker 12 suite, comprised of next-generation BSS/OSS and virtualization capabilities, to enable its large-scale IT consolidation, transformation and network virtualization program. As the foundational platform, Netcracker 12 […]
“AIOps stands for Algorithmic IT Operations and is a new category as defined by Gartner research that is an evolution of what the industry previously referred to as ITOA (IT Operations and Analytics). We have reached a point where data science and algorithms are being successfully applied to automate traditionally manual tasks and processes in […]
In 1998 Berkshire Hathaway acquired a reinsurance company called General Re. “The only significant staff change that followed the merger was the elimination of General Re’s investment unit. Some 150 people had been in charge of deciding where to invest the company’s funds; they were replaced with just one individual – Warren Buffett.” Robert G. […]
During the last week, this blog-roll has talked about the benefits, but also the challenges facing implementation techniques like Agile in the world of OSS. There’s no doubt that they’re good at breaking down challenges into smaller pieces for implementation. Unfortunately there’s also the risk of doing for the sake of doing – stuffing more […]
SaskTel transforms for the future with next generation Order Management, Inventory, Assignment and Provisioning Solution. SaskTel International announced the successful implementation of their next generation Order Management, Inventory, Assignment and Provisioning solution, Optius, into SaskTel’s business operations. SaskTel is a leading communications service provider in Canada with over 1.4 million customer connections and $1.2 billion […]
What does the integration map of your OSS suite look like? Does it have lots of meatballs with a spaghetti of interconnections? Is it possibly even too entangled that even creating an integration map would be a nightmare? Similarly, how many customisations have you made to your out-of-the-box tools? In recent posts we’ve discussed the […]
“Are we spawning a maelstrom, the butterfly effect from all of our doing?” Yesterday’s post pondered the question of whether we’re getting entangled in our frenzy for doing. I’ve been privileged to have worked in a dozen countries or more and even more privileged to be an Australian. Less proud am I though of the […]
Cisco Completes Viptela Acquisition. Cisco announced the close of its acquisition of Viptela [for $610M], a privately held company based in San Jose, CA that delivers a cloud-first, software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) solution. In June, Cisco announced it is rewriting the enterprise networking blueprint with a new generation of intent-based networking solutions. Viptela’s software-driven, […]
“At least DO SOMETHING! DO! Don’t think, don’t hope, do! At least you can come off and say ‘I did this, I shepherded, I played on. At least I did something” John Kennedy. The following clip shows some of Australian Rules Football’s finest motivators, including a snippet of the speech from John Kennedy as quoted […]
“People pay for two things: Results: You do something they couldn’t do for themselves. Convenience: You do something they don’t want to do for themselves, or you make something difficult easier to do.” Ramit Sethi. I really like the way Ramit has broken down an infinite number of variants down to just two key categories. […]
“We believe in nurturing a trust-based relationship with our partners to create effective innovative projects together.” I won’t mention which vendor executive coined this phrase, but it’s representative of many vendors’ sentiments. Easy words to say, but harder to earn (individually or as an organisation) and harder still to prove to others. OSS / BSS […]
“While we were talking about this permanent shop, which he still hadn’t opened, his attention would often drift to his next shop. And the one after that. And after that. And then building an app to make online ordering easy. And then, becoming the next Starbucks. Whoa. Hold on, man, I told him. I get […]
“When I hear that the average tenure in tech is just two years, I wonder how anyone gets anything done. When I hear such job hopping justified by the fact that changing companies is the only way to get a raise, I just shake my head at the short-sightedness of such companies.” David Heinemeier Hansson […]
New service complements Oracle ERP Cloud and Oracle Customer Experience Cloud Suite to provide monetization across the customer journey. Oracle announced Oracle Monetization Cloud. The new cloud service accelerates time to market for digital and subscription-based products and services by enabling the full life cycle of customer on-boarding, offer creation, robust rating and discounting, billing, […]
Hyperledger Adds Cisco as a Premier Member. Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, announced today that Cisco has upgraded its General membership to Premier. As a Premier member, Ram Jagadeesan, Cisco Distinguished Engineer and Blockchain CTO, will join the Hyperledger Governing Board. Cisco joins other Premier members: Accenture, Airbus, […]
Gordon Ramsay used to run a TV show called Hell’s Kitchen where he would take a failing restaurant and would attempt to transform it one expletive at a time. I’m not remotely interested in reality kitchen shows but I did watch a couple of episodes of this one. Enough to notice a trend happening. He […]
