November, 2011

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My next book

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As you may notice, the book badge on the left now has a blue cover – Amazon just announced it is taking pre-orders for my next book (due in February according to Wiley, my publisher) In the meantime, I am.

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HCL Unstructure an eclectic event

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You know you are not in Kansas anymore when the morning keynote begins with Malcolm Gladwell and the state of oncology circa 1955, and the evening keynote by President Bill Clinton makes you ponder what astrophysics will teach circa 2055.

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We could use more story tellers

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It was 1997 if memory serves me right. Doug Burgum, then CEO of Great Plains (now part of Microsoft) used his entire keynote at the annual Stampede user event to talk about the story of an English clockmaker, John Harrison.

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Salesforce.com and Model Metrics

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One distinctive feature of Salesforce.com from other application vendors (on-premise and SaaS) has been it has smartly encouraged for years now a group of smaller, cloud savvy systems integrators – as different from large outsourcers, Indian firms or resellers. That.

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Of sausages and technology

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Rob Carter, CIO at Fedex, is an executive I have long respected. Every event I have seen him present at, it has been in business terms – not geek talk. He made a comment, though, last year to Chris Murphy.

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The power and problem - of data

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One of my favorite chapters to research and write in my last book was on Analytics – Big Data, Visualization, Pattern Recognition, storage implications and several other angles. And in my next book, I touch on data driven business model.

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Saving Private Steve Jobs

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In a touching scene in the movie, a much older James Ryan asks his wife “Tell me I have led a good life”. “Tell me I am a good man”. Earlier in the movie, when Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) is.

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