This week’s theme is applications and software strategy and yesterday’s post dealt with the value of going “open source”all the way” from start-ups to large enterprises. Today we’re taking a look at the major guidelines that two large organizations have put in place for all applications being developed.
Take a listen to Das Kamhout, IT Principal Engineer at Intel and Jay Ferro the CIO of the American Cancer Society as they talk about what their organizations are requiring. (This video was taken from the Application think tank that Dell Services held back in January.)
Consumerization has raised the bar and set new standards for what employees and customers expect from applications both internal and external. In a nutshell they need to be intuitive and available everywhere. Intel and the American Cancer Society understand this and I would agree 🙂
Stay tuned
Starting tomorrow, the next three entries this week will center around dealing with the applications that already exist within your organization and how you modify them or know which ones to get rid of.
The Think Tank, Sessions one and two
- Think Tank Session 1– Welcome to the application-centric world – best practices in the ‘greenfield’
- Think tank Session 2– Nexus of forces – CIOs under pressure and the rise of the enterprise developer
Extra-credit reading (previous videos)
- App Think Tank: Open Source all the way
- App Think Tank: The skills the CIO of the future needs
- App Think Tank: The skills and people IT needs most
- App Think Tank: What a CIO must do
- App Think Tank: What do customers expect
- App Think Tank: IT is facing competition for the first time ever
- App Think Tank: The persistently, ubiquitously connected to the network era
- App Think Tank: The Web Of C-Level Relationships
Pau for now…
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