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Y2K Opportunity
The Year 2000 Problem is forcing organizations to spend heavily, ... just to stay in business. Y2K projects are a pure drain on resources. But the expensive Y2K testing can be reused in a parallel project to add web interfaces to legacy applications. This article explains the opportunity.
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Balanced Scorecards
The idea of using Balanced Scorecards has won large mind-share. This article explains the approach and presents a Minimum Balanced Perspective. Guidelines are provided about when and whether to use Balanced Scorecards, and the technology that is appropriate to support different approaches.
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A TCLish Proposition
This is the presentation of an idea to the Toronto SPIN. The idea is to reuse our understanding of a domain by reusing the actions required in the domain. These spanning actions can be expressed as extensions to a scripting language, with Tcl being my choice of a language. |
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The ERP Challenge
Enterprise Resource Planning systems seem to promise the world. Delivery has always been a problem. Beyond delivery problems, many organizations are poorly served when they attempt to apply ERP to everything. "Tomorrow" needs a place outside the system's relentless driving logic.
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Modest Software Tools
This is a paper that appeared recently in Information Strategy. It argues that there are important reasons why we should select software tools with "modest" aspirations. Universal tools are not very good at most things, and show correspondingly poor productivity.
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Standard Browser Colours
One of the problems with the Web is that different browsers can reproduce colours differently, leading to unexpected/undesirable colours on the "wrong" platform. This small table shows all of the standard colours. It's a useful reference.
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