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The Opportunity Cost of IT

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I read two columns today which prompt this post. The first is from Ben Pring where he invokes the Japanese art of decluttering as applied to IT. There has never been a culture in “big boy IT” of throwing things.

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Burning Questions: Do telcos understand variable cost economics?

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Somewhere from my fuzzy recollection of economics classes, I seem to remember that as products evolved in their lifecycles, you moved from “charge what market will bear” to “variable cost pricing “ – i.e. make sure price covers your variable.

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Of Cloud Vendors and Roofers

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The thought of days and weeks of workers and cost estimates that reflected. We recently had our roof redone. Should have had it done years ago. Instead we periodically had it patched with new shingles. Cosmetics instead of real work. Cloud Computing, SaaS'

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SAP cloudwashes its image

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Not sure how much it cost SAP but they are clearly eager to be considered “cloudy”. Watching the playoffs this weekend, I chuckled when I saw SAP is the NFL’s Official Cloud Software Solutions provider. Since the revenues show a.

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The arrogance of enterprise tech

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Because enterprise tech costs $$$$$ while consumer tech costs $, enterprise tech must be that much more complex – right? Notice how many enterprise tech execs smirk about consumer tech and call it “toys” ? Let’s see how "un-complex" consumer.

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A feel good story gets better

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On Friday, I wrote about Suvir Mirchandani, a 14 year old who has analyzed how the government can save in printing costs. Tongue in cheek, I called him Deal Architect Jr, because of the $ 400 million savings potential his.'

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Weapons of mass creativity

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During a recent conversation with Vishal Sikka, exec board member SAP on what might happen as a result of being able to cost effectively mashup. Dennis Howlett has a nice quote from Vishal Sikka of SAP in this blog post.