Nicholas Carr Grades Out At A “B”

I recently read an interview with Nicholas Carr of “Does IT Matter?” fame. His general position, is that as Utility Computing takes-off, IT will become redundant.http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Expert-Voices/Nicholas-Carr-Why-IT-Will-Change/ All in all, I think that he is going for headlines rather than taking into account the distinction between “powering IT assets” versus “delivering...

Making Distributed Teams Work

I recently read an article by Matt Asay of Alfresco about their highly virtual organization and some of the fundamentals that make them successful. It is hard to question his credibility in this area – Alfresco is doing a superb job strategically and tactically so something is working. They have defined their market (Enterprise Content Management), structured their business model (commercial open source) and...