Minimise the tentacles on the OctopOSS. Keep it simple
“I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.” Paul Muldoon. Single Sign-On (SSO) is a means of simplifying user access to a suite of different applications, such as the suite of tools that usually comprise a CSP’s OSS. It allows the user to authenticate once and credentials are propagated through other systems after the […]
“Being selective — doing less — is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.” Tim Ferriss. When speaking with a great friend of mine today, Eddie, I came to the startling realisation that in nearly 700 blog posts, I have forgotten to speak about a major misgiving that […]
ThingWorx Powers Largest Japan Mobile Service Provider NTT DOCOMO M2M Cloud Solution “ThingWorx, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, announced NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s largest mobile service provider, has partnered with ThingWorx and Nippon Systemware Co., Ltd (NSW) for its new M2M cloud solutions powered by the ThingWorx platform. Serving more than 63 million […]
“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience of nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like, but in all my experience, I have never been in any accident of any sort worth speaking about…I never saw […]
“Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.” Steven Brust. Regular readers will have noticed my penchant for referring to the Pareto Principle (aka the 80/20 rule). I’m a big believer in focusing on streamlining the high-use or highly important items of OSS implementations. OSS are simply too big and too complex to get bogged down […]
“Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.” Carlos Ghosn. Today’s blog is derived from a wonderful question from a subscriber to the PAOSS blog. She asked: I would be interested to know more about Data integrity/Synchronization approach and challenges, especially when various mergers/acquisitions involved. Due to […]
“Datafication” is a new term used to describe the process of turning an existing business into a “data business.” Bersin. We’ve had industrialisation and digitalisation. Are we already on the brink of a new business model mindset? Datafication. Many industries are now producing and storing prodigious amounts of data, of which OSS is one of […]
“The fluttering of a butterfly’s wing in Rio de Janeiro, amplified by atmospheric currents, could cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later.” Edward Lorenz. I’m currently reading “The Click Moment” by Frans Johansson. It discusses many interesting stories about rapid change and randomness in our daily lives. One such story describes how Edward Lorenz […]
Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist, tweeted the following 22 rules of story-telling. Perhaps I’ve been spending too much time writing blogs and sections in my upcoming book, but I see so many analogies between telling a story the Pixar way and telling a story with the mountains of data you have in your OSS: You […]
“A skilled author of data presentation will choose the right visualization to emphasize a message. The data, chart, and supporting descriptions will work in harmony to point out what is interesting. The reader simply goes along for the ride. Unfortunately this is the exception more than the rule. Many data products are a muddled mess […]
“Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It’s not your way or my way : it’s a better way.” Stephen Covey. The following image has been circulating the Internet and it got me thinking about its implications to OSS. There are many who would believe that there are three kinds of OSS and you […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.” H. Stanley Marcus. The key OSS buying decision for customers is, “Do I have enough information to make a useful decision. If not, what would I need to know to know or what would I need to see to make a decision?” Understand what the barriers to saying yes […]
“The Japanese have a wonderful sense of design and a refinement in their art. They try to produce beautiful paintings with the minimum number of strokes.” David Rockefeller. Have you ever sat back and wondered what has worked on your OSS projects or operations? Have you been able to figure out why it has worked? […]
“What is life without incompatible realities?” Ursula K. Le Guin. One of the nifty features of many inventory management solutions is their compatibility rules. They’re effectively the equivalent of ensuring a designer doesn’t put a square peg in a round hole. A sample use-case is when trying to build a 1 Gigabit (1Gb) Ethernet circuit, […]
“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 – […]
“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 […]
