Finally... or Post V1.0
OK - Pito Salas finally talked me into trying this. I've been reading many blogs for a while, but not writing, so here goes. As I have been saying in my voicemail for some time, I tend to do things episodically & quasi-periodically, so that's all I'll commit to, quasi-periodic postings on what I thinking about & seeing as emerging technologies are developed & applied to new & existing product streams. I can't & won't separate what I write here from my work as the Founder & Principal of FutureSense Research. This is a boutique research & consulting firm that works with companies to facilitate the exploration & integration of emerging technologies into new & existing software product streams. It's what I do...
This is the second time I have started FutureSense. The first was in California in 2001, a difficult time to start a one-person consulting shop. FutureSense did well then & I expect it will now, mainly because not many people really focus on emerging technologies & how they can or even should be integrated into products that companies rely on. This blog is more about the concepts/trends/ideas involved & not the mechanism (the consulting company). OK - enough of that...
I am just leaving the EMC Corporation where I was a Technology Vice President responsible for the concepts, strategy & product architecture in the collaboration product space. I got to EMC through a series of acquisitions; I was CTO at eRoom Technology when Documentum bought eRoom & then EMC bought Documentum. I've work at LARGE companies (Digital Equipment, General Motors, Boeing) & small companies (Riverton Software, Upstream Consulting, eRoom Technology) & prefer small, hence my exit from EMC. I'm also not a big fan of M&A, having been through several that were consummated & at least one that was not (Agile Software/Arriba, Inc.). That's fuel for another entry though...
The next couple of posts will be about things I'm doing now: writing a book on the co-evolution of technology & organizations & how that effects our idea of work, developing some new ideas on how to make business process design & execution much more effective & continuing to evolve my ideas about current & near-future technology trends. I'm sure that I also won't be able to keep from commenting on the more or less interesting things happening in the technology universe. Stay tuned (whoever you are...)
This is the second time I have started FutureSense. The first was in California in 2001, a difficult time to start a one-person consulting shop. FutureSense did well then & I expect it will now, mainly because not many people really focus on emerging technologies & how they can or even should be integrated into products that companies rely on. This blog is more about the concepts/trends/ideas involved & not the mechanism (the consulting company). OK - enough of that...
I am just leaving the EMC Corporation where I was a Technology Vice President responsible for the concepts, strategy & product architecture in the collaboration product space. I got to EMC through a series of acquisitions; I was CTO at eRoom Technology when Documentum bought eRoom & then EMC bought Documentum. I've work at LARGE companies (Digital Equipment, General Motors, Boeing) & small companies (Riverton Software, Upstream Consulting, eRoom Technology) & prefer small, hence my exit from EMC. I'm also not a big fan of M&A, having been through several that were consummated & at least one that was not (Agile Software/Arriba, Inc.). That's fuel for another entry though...
The next couple of posts will be about things I'm doing now: writing a book on the co-evolution of technology & organizations & how that effects our idea of work, developing some new ideas on how to make business process design & execution much more effective & continuing to evolve my ideas about current & near-future technology trends. I'm sure that I also won't be able to keep from commenting on the more or less interesting things happening in the technology universe. Stay tuned (whoever you are...)
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