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Another example of “information-enabled products”:

Internet of Things to revolutionise industry: GE – city, Internet of Things, cisco, ge, Rockwell Automation, internet of everything, Sense-T, mining – Computerworld: “‘For the most part, that install base of machines we’ve sold over the years is essentially just metal that’s out there, and for us we see this as an opportunity of enabling that technology to work completely differently,’ Sheppard said.

‘If we could optimise that equipment just by 1 per cent – so just get 1 per cent more efficiency out of that equipment that’s out there today – we could deliver $20 billion in productivity to our customer base.’”

This is a significant trend:

Andreessen Horowitz: “Suppose you develop a new technology that is valuable to some industry. The old approach was to sell or license your technology to the existing companies in that industry. The new approach is to build a complete, end-to-end product or service that bypasses existing companies.”

Remember the old “disintermediation” view of how the Internet would change industries? Well that absolutely happened. And it happened with exactly the impact on customer focus on which it was predicted.  

But now this! Rather than disintermediation of industries you get the situation where a new entrant can create a “stacked” entry and apply an end-to-end service. 

This reminds me of the first question that popped into my head at a recent Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) financial services event on “systems of engagement”:

Is it easier to build systems of engagement on top of an organisation with good systems of record, or to build (or aquire) systems of record for an organisation with good systems of engagement?

So, does this mean this?

Most interesting presentation I’ve seen for a long time:

https://opengroupevents.webex.com/ec0701l/eventcenter/enroll/join.do?confViewID=1004789686&theAction=detail&confId=1004789686&path=program_detail&siteurl=opengroupevents

Partially interesting because I already agree with most of it –  but still, exceptionally well presented both visually and the ideas.

You’ve already missed it – but I’m sure there will be a video or blog entry somewhere… 

Now that data scientists and cloud BI are going mainstream (a nice overview of trends here: http://www.tableausoftware.com/about/blog/2013/12/top-10-trends-business-intelligence-2014-27275) we are finally seeing information management evolve into information-enabled business transformation.  

This is an important evolution from my perspective.  To be able to use some solid IM foundational capabilities as building blocks for true business transformation is my main interest in IM.  I’ve been learning IM approaches for the last 3-4 years specifically with this in mind.  

For example, see the following overview of typical information services (starting from the bottom of the stack) building into information-enabled capabilities (at the top of the stack).  This was created back in 2012 as part of the process of developing the SMS Management & Technology Information and Data Management (IDM) service catalogue:

It’s a little hard to read the “knowledge books” at the top of the stack that are the information-enabled capabilities that I thought would be important at the time.  

They are:

• Collaborative risk management
• Information-embedded products
• Customer touch-point information integrity
• Market-making technology
• Integrated performance reporting
• Value-added compliance
• Dynamic product configuration / pricing
• Yield management
• Budget integrity (budgeting and forecasting + prediction + event-based assumption validation)
• Extend time horizon of decision making
• Agile Innovation 

My year of capability engineering… http://strategyand.pwc.com/global/home/what-we-think/cds_home

Amazon trials drones for package delivery – Hardware – Technology – News – iTnews.com.au: “Amazon said it hoped drones would be able to put products in customers’ hands in around 30 minutes.”

This is a good laugh

Photos: The 10 moods of Stephen Conroy – Photo Galleries – iTnews.com.au: “”

The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us – Jim Stikeleather – Harvard Business Review: “The bifurcation of IT and business is a myth. There have been two paths of discussion around this. One is the concept of alignment. The other is the idea that as IT socially enables companies, the actual concept of management and how we organize and structure work as practiced today begins to disappear. There were numerous discussions around COBIT and ITIL — popular IT process- and service-management frameworks — and there is a lot that COBIT in particular offers. But too often, it turns alignment into supplication or worse, subservience. “