Helplessness of the mortals...Christchurch :(

I would rather keep myself really quiet and just pay homage to the 65 off confirmed deceased in the events that unfolded around mid day yesterday 22nd of February 2011. We have to realise that it is just the humility, friendship, goodwill, peace, everything positive and nice that we could think about, the only threads of faith that we could carry in this otherwise turbulent phase of our ecosystem. The patterns that we are used to, for a long time in terms of our climate & how the atmosphere has been behaving, which just points back to the helplessness of us the poor mortals.

Let us offer our support, love and whatever we could offer towards helping those families. Pray for them...

Push & Pull...Customer & Marketing...even the title is Random

A few random things that cut across my mind today...did I really think about something...of the likes of web requirements, BI, agile, performance management, workflow, back office, enterprise application integration blah blah blah. Tempus Fugit...time flies, there was this era of paper based marketing about Advts. trying to entice people into buying those otherwise useless or even not useful for now (and not even sure if ever) products & services just because the by-line was catchy or the model on it was quite appealing or there was a surplus chunk of Rupaiah which we had to dispose. I would never have that latter state LOL for sure.
Then there was all sort of media, radios, movies, TV, Internet marketing, roadshows, billboards et al. I love the most recent one...where the classic electronic push gives way to pulling the e-person to the product. The combination of mobile, cloud, predictive analytics, soothing UIs...to make the e-Person or m-Person (on Mobile using internet...3G, 3GS, 4G...nG) feel important, feel wanted, feel always taken care of, feel understood...you walk in to the super market and your phone telling you, hey...it has been long since you have had your favourite Starbucks Capuccino (it is just one of my good 'ol preferences, there is no other marketing undertones)...when you are in the radius of the nearby Starbucks outlet and while you are having the Capuccino walking through the mall, again it is reminding you about whether the coffee tasted the same or different and pointing at the possible specials around and entities that you have not purchased for more than a preset period of time and calculated from your average consumption...Wow you are loved, cared, noticed, socially relevant.
As Thomachan, one of my real good friends in NZ says...Facebook search for a restuarant will bring up even the restuarants preferred by your friends and even their remarks. Word of Mouth is the way to go.
Context Sensitivity and Relevance is going to prevail and Predictive analytics will be possibly defining and driving the odds for even the commoner let alone the so called geeky IT gurus.
Long live...drought of words...I will say, Long live everything.

IT a strategic asset Or Is it just a money muncher!!!

The conventional thought patterns revolving around capital expenditure on IT is slowly making way to the concept of investing in one of the most strategic assets for business. Even when it is a welcome change, new generation CIOs are even before starting from their blocks tasked with KPIs, Performance Management jargons & Productivity mantras chanted 360 degrees 24/7.
If we go a bit further into why and how IT climbed itself upto this pedestal...we will have to forget about the social engineering based leftist ideals quite a bit and start looking at how IT could revolutionise the business process workflow for the new generation businesses.
With the concept of 3year term for CEOs again tasked with the herculean multi m(b/t/z)illion dollar savings target, it is quite apparent that the first and foremost entity that would be under the radar would be the Productivity matrices of individual functional units within the organisation. The common questions include:
How can I better achieve the same results for the group?
How can a different headcount share the same amount of work?
How far can we automate the process work flow?
How can we refine processes?
How can the strategic assets be leveraged to improve performance & productivity?
Most of these questions eventually finds answers in systems which are capable of creating matrices week in week out analysing what happened, how it happened, why it happened and where it went well and went wrong. The answer is creating models with the historical data that we have from the operations to find patterns and target problem areas and find the optimal resource utilization...yes, Analytics, Cloud, Precitive...we could bring in all the jargons in this world which all end in Information Technology.
Yes the coming era is all about Information management...IT is the decisive entity in redefining the path of any progressive business.

Apple is an island — a very lush, idyllic island, but an island nonetheless.

...from the article The next Wintel: Android plus Nvidia is a good read about how the Mobile market and mobile computing is getting transformed and how the limitations of devices could hinder their progress in the rapidly changing Mobile Space. The computing devices are evolving and evolving very fast that it definitely has to be more integrated in the way it could take up the role of being a corporate device to an entertainment unit to any sort of role that the owner gets into and with the absolute humane dynamicism. One would not expect tomorrow to be crowded with multiple devices with specific roles as the amount of time switching back and forth between them would be the key productivity index that people would look at minimising.
Being a fan of free world, I would never ever believe in Apple's ideology of WE PROVIDE YOU EVERYTHING as it just restricts the thought pattern...they have lots of things to offer, but do they have all the answers, do they have the will to feed to the changing priorities, do they take the approach...WHAT DO YOU WANT instead of WE KNOW YOU WANT THIS attitude. Quite Doubtful...Steve Jobs a thought leader leads the world, but is that the only way to be led, I AM CERTAINLY SURE IT IS NOT. It is exploring unexplored avenues that this life is all about and providing freedom for people would be the key factor in the post 2011 world for any tech mantra reaching the classes & masses.
That is too much of jibberish from me now....Have a good day you all.
End Note: I agree with you Jason...The leaders of the next era in computing will very likely be Google Android and NVIDIA