IMPACT

Opportunities to meet me or hear me speak

March 18, 2009

While the blog has a list of my forthcoming speaking engagements on the sidebar, I realize that some of you only ever see the feed so I thought I would do a post with some upcoming opportunities to see or hear me in the wild.
If you just want to meet me, you could catch me [...]

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DIALOG Keynotes – ILOG and IBM

February 4, 2009

Pierre Haren started up the keynotes with some personal comments about the excitement of being part of IBM, seeing more customers at DIALOG and hearing stories from customers about what they are doing with ILOG products. He is clearly enthused by the opportunity to reach more companies by being part of IBM than they ever [...]

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More on the IBM/ILOG Relationship

August 11, 2008

I got a briefing last week from IBM as part of my researching of the IBM/ILOG acquisition (I blogged about this here). Back when I was at IMPACT it became clear that IBM was getting focused on events, rules and policies – they talked about Points of Agility, points in a business where variability is [...]

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(Not) Live from IMPACT – a blogger wrap

April 14, 2008

As I could not attend all of IMPACT 2008 and as there were hundreds of sessions, I thought I would post as complete a set of posts as I could (with help from Dan Zrobok), starting with mine:

Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I
Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part II
Live from IMPACT [...]

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Live from IMPACT – Other bloggers

April 7, 2008

Thanks to Dan I discovered a number of other bloggers covering IMPACT:

Michael Cote (Redmonk)
Dana Gardner
Juris Kaža

Bob Balfe
James Governor
Bill Newport

A number of us are also twittering and you can find a summary of our impact 2008 posts here.

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Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part II

April 7, 2008

It turns out they are going to move the schedule back to allow for the overrun in the keynotes so I have some time to catch up.
So, Steve Mills. Steve re-iterated the power of business and IT alignment, again quoting the LSE / McKinsey study that shows such alignment doubles productivity (I am looking for [...]

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Blogging Live from IMPACT – Opening Keynotes Part I

April 7, 2008

I am attending the IBM IMPACT show today and tomorrow and will try and blog live from the show. So far the wireless isn’t working in the keynote location (I am on my broadband wireless modem, thank you Verizon) and the room has no tables and no power for the HUGE number of laptop users [...]

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