Skills, Innovation and the future of Ireland - Bermuda Triangle or Trinity
2009-06-07 Management Personal Culture Innovation
Ireland (like any other country in the world right now) needs to reinvent itself. The Celtic Tiger (1.0) is over. Question is: What's next? Do we want ... Read More
Open Source Innovation - Fact or Fiction
2008-08-25 Software-Engineering Open-Source Innovation
Is Open Source Innovation an oxymoron? Is Open-source fostering innovation or killing it? There are two school of thoughts out there: First, there are ... Read More
Solid State Disks - Level 5 cache
2008-08-25 Software-Engineering Innovation
Last month I had the pleasure to spend 2 hours in the car with Klaus Grieger. Klaus and myself know each other from ObjectDesign and Versant. Right ... Read More
The iPhone - and what you can learn from thinking about it
2008-07-05 Software-Engineering Mobile Innovation
On Sunday I went to the driving range and while Alexandros was working on my early retirement plan (aka. he making lots of money with golf and I am ... Read More
Mobile Payment - what is needed
2008-07-04 Software-Engineering Mobile Innovation
in the last 4 weeks, i was talking to sailesh panchal (Enterprise Architect - Payments at Lloyds TSB) and hermann sauer (EDS - Integration Engineering ... Read More
Innovation on Innovation - How to make elephants dance
2008-06-05 Software-Engineering Management Innovation
Yesterday I went out and had a pint with Sailesh Panchal. He is an Enterprise Architect with the payments division of Lloyds TSB in London. Part of ... Read More
Mobile Monday in Belfast - WebServices to foster innovation
2008-05-21 Software-Engineering Mobile Conferences Innovation
Monday evening I spent in Belfast at the Mobile Monday, presenting on "How to access WebServices from the iPhone" (pictures are available upon request ... Read More
The sensoric revolution - iPhone/Chumby integration
2008-05-21 Software-Engineering Mobile Innovation
The embedded/mobile software market is growing faster than the rest of the industry. From my point of view this just the tip of the iceberg, because ... Read More
Quantum Leap
2008-05-18 Personal Culture Art Innovation
Today we went to a local art (flee) market. We were looking for some paintings for our new house. At the end we could not agree on anything, but I was ... Read More
The Colossus of Rhodes
2008-04-20 Management Innovation
Now. Lets get things started. Lets talk about innovation. for a well-known reason (at least) once a year i am in greece. this year we also went to ... Read More