The OctopOSS needs innovation and evolution to become all that it can be
“The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.” Stephen Covey. I read […]
“Global mobile data traffic grew 81 percent in 2013. Global mobile data traffic reached 1.5 exabytes per month at the end of 2013, up from 820 petabytes per month at the end of 2012. Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 18 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. One exabyte of […]
“In our 2012 study of data analysts, we characterized the process of data science as five high-level tasks: discovery, wrangling, profiling, modeling, and reporting. Most analytic and visualization tools focus on the last two phases of this workflow. Unfortunately, most of a data scientist’s time is spent on the first three stages.” Sean Kandel on […]
“One of the most unusual animals in the natural world, the platypus looks like a beaver, but with the bill and webbed feet of a duck. It has the venom of a reptile and lays eggs like a bird. [Ivy] Ross decided to build a product-development team modeled after the platypus, with people from many […]
“Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make [a] difference.” Mike Schmoker. I’m possibly having a major brain-fade here (again), but the only two ways I can think of for extracting information from your OSS are: Via your OSS GUI (Graphical User Interface) Via […]
“Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” Vera Nazarian. After lots of writing and refining, my book, which is dedicated to OSS implementations, is almost finished. It’s based around 22 commonly asked questions, particularly by readers who are relatively new to OSS. It also allows readers […]
“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.” Steve Jobs. I love this concept – […]
“We coach to generate results. And if what we’re doing doesn’t have a significant, positive, measurable impact on results then basically what we’re doing is wasting everybody’s time and money.” Alan Fine, in his book, “You Already Know How to Be Great.” In an earlier post, “The Puppy Analogy,” we spoke of the example where […]
“ONF is excited about this collaboration with ETSI as we believe this relationship can significantly contribute to the goals of the NFV ISG, which we have pledged to support since it was formed, as well as become a relevant source of requirements and use cases for the SDN community.” Dan Pitt. As described in an […]
“There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.” Mark Zuckerberg. Who buys an […]
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” Steve Jobs. I’m currently reading a book by Peter Sander entitled, “What would Steve Jobs Do?” Peter describes the following key take-aways for establishing a vision from his analysis of Steve’s actions: What would I want from a product / experience? What would surprise […]
“in today’s digital services economy no single company can now survive as an independent entity and succeed for a sustained period. It is crucial that organisations focus on core competency, and partner to gain access to the competencies outside of that.” TM Forum’s “Open Digital Ecosystem: Business Partnering Guide, Practical guidelines for Partnering in the […]
“When you think of any aspect of life or work, augmented reality is completely going to change how we do it.” Ori Inbar. Here in Australia, we have a program called Dial Before You Dig, which provides information, usually in the form of plans, about underground assets for a given address. It is used by […]
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” Charles Kettering. If you have a goal of creating the world’s best OSS tool, where do you start? Do you try to understand the competition and do it better than they do? How would you prove that it’s better than them in a […]
“The most difficult part of requirements gathering is not the act of recording what the user wants, it is the exploratory development activity of helping users figure out what they want.” Steve McConnell. When starting out on a requirement gathering exercise, The Radar Analogy always seems to spring to mind because it carries such a […]
“Integration: An infrastructure for enabling efficient data sharing across incompatible applications that evolve independently in a coordinated manner to serve the needs of the enterprise and its stakeholders.” John G. Schmidt, and David Lyle, in their book “Lean Integration: An Integration Factory Approach to Business Agility.” Another of Tom Nolle’s insightful blogs has helped to […]
“While customer focus is a high priority, nearly half of the CIOs in our survey–47 percent–have difficulty getting their IT staff to be more business-oriented and customer-facing.” CIO.com, in their report, “State of the CIO 2014: The Great Schism.” In CIO.com’s 13th annual survey, 25% of CIOs (Chief Information Officers) were perceived as “game-changers that […]
“We can make computers affordable by all, we can make every device smart, we can augment every aspect of our lives with technology…but not if it means we all have to be technologists. Even relatively high-tech buyers like businesses and network operators are finding it difficult or impossible to sustain the skill levels needed to […]
“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt** Having worked at almost every different aspect of OSS, there are three types of projects that I’ve enjoyed most, despite them tending to consume 80-100 hour weeks, sometimes for months at a time: […]
“Telecom operators don’t have the DNA to develop these kinds of applications. In this new world we build the network, but the service is built by someone else. We have to share monetisation… First, [telcos] are more focused on their infrastructure business and are not as strong in applications; second, this ecosystem of applications is […]
