Comments on: First IT|Redux Breakfast http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/ New Rules for a New IT World Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:34:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Sanjay Kalra http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1265 Sanjay Kalra Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:41:54 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1265 Ismael, I just posted on my blog regarding this event. Keep up the good work and I'm looking forward to more from you on how to make the best use of my new Cingular 8125. Maybe this always connected, 24x7 access to the Internet using mobile, converged devices is a whole new flattener on its own. You can check out my blog entry <a href="http://technologybusiness.blogspot.com/">here</a> and <a href="http://processrevolution.blogspot.com/">there</a>. And before I forget, please send a copy of Thomas Friedman's book my way -- I can always use one more to give away to my customers. In the last couple of years, my primary business gift to my prospects and customers has been this book and BPM, The Third Wave. Way better than giving away some brochureware. Ismael,

I just posted on my blog regarding this event. Keep up the good work and I’m looking forward to more from you on how to make the best use of my new Cingular 8125. Maybe this always connected, 24×7 access to the Internet using mobile, converged devices is a whole new flattener on its own. You can check out my blog entry here and there. And before I forget, please send a copy of Thomas Friedman’s book my way — I can always use one more to give away to my customers. In the last couple of years, my primary business gift to my prospects and customers has been this book and BPM, The Third Wave. Way better than giving away some brochureware.

]]> By: IT|Redux » Networking is an Art http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1226 IT|Redux » Networking is an Art Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:37:02 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1226 [...] As much as I like networking today, it is not something that came naturally to me. Instead, it took me quite some time to become comfortable with its basic principles. My education process included reading books, such as Keith Farrazzi’s Never Eat Alone and Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point, as well as receiving coaching from business associates and friends. Among them, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, CEO of Brixlogic, and Arnold Goto, CEO of AKG Consulting, have had the most influence on me. As I am getting ready for the first IT|Redux networking event, I wanted express my gratitude for the time they spent teaching me the basics of their art. Please be assured that I will do my best to pass it forward. [...] […] As much as I like networking today, it is not something that came naturally to me. Instead, it took me quite some time to become comfortable with its basic principles. My education process included reading books, such as Keith Farrazzi’s Never Eat Alone and Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point, as well as receiving coaching from business associates and friends. Among them, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis, CEO of Brixlogic, and Arnold Goto, CEO of AKG Consulting, have had the most influence on me. As I am getting ready for the first IT|Redux networking event, I wanted express my gratitude for the time they spent teaching me the basics of their art. Please be assured that I will do my best to pass it forward. […]

]]> By: Tim Clark http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1111 Tim Clark Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:03:44 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-1111 As I read Friedman's 10 flatteners, they are largely about how software has changed the environment for non-technology parts of our world--international relations, education, politics, culture, etc. I gave the book to my 25-year-old activist son, hoping to internationalize his world view. He quickly picked up how the xenophobic reaction in the U.S. to Dubai-based DP World's purchase of operations at six U.S. ports was decidedly not a flat world response. So I look forward to a discussion of how these software-influenced flatteners are now playing back into the world of software vendors and developers. There's no rule that only 10 flatteners are allowed--perhaps we will identify the 11th and 12th. As I read Friedman’s 10 flatteners, they are largely about how software has changed the environment for non-technology parts of our world – international relations, education, politics, culture, etc.

I gave the book to my 25-year-old activist son, hoping to internationalize his world view. He quickly picked up how the xenophobic reaction in the U.S. to Dubai-based DP World’s purchase of operations at six U.S. ports was decidedly not a flat world response.

So I look forward to a discussion of how these software-influenced flatteners are now playing back into the world of software vendors and developers. There’s no rule that only 10 flatteners are allowed – perhaps we will identify the 11th and 12th.

]]> By: Earl Rennison http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-917 Earl Rennison Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:20:28 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-917 This is a very important topic that is having a significant impact on the software industry. It is truly amazing what has transpired in the last five years. I am very excited to hear stories of what is happening in outsourcing today and the effects it is having on businesses. This is a very important topic that is having a significant impact on the software industry. It is truly amazing what has transpired in the last five years. I am very excited to hear stories of what is happening in outsourcing today and the effects it is having on businesses.

]]> By: Raju Vegesna http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-894 Raju Vegesna Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:26:22 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-894 I would love to join you folks on this. I just registered. Looking forward to it. Raju I would love to join you folks on this. I just registered. Looking forward to it.

Raju

]]> By: Sanjay Kalra http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-853 Sanjay Kalra Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:06:14 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-853 Tom Friedman has turned out to be an amazing public relations guy for the offshore software industry -- especially in India. I remember just 8 years back it used to be a tough task to educate the decision makers in the US on the incredible advantages outsourcing could provide to their companies. Today, the outsourcing idea is already sold. The question is really how to select the right outsourcing partner, how to implement collaborative development and project management methodologies to gain maximum efficiency and quality in the development process, how to leverage offshore outsourcing to become more agile and reduce time-to-market, etc. My interest surely would be to hear the stories from the horses' mouths, understand the pains and concerns that customers have related to outsourcing, understand some of the best practices that our comrades in the industry are following, etc. Tom Friedman has turned out to be an amazing public relations guy for the offshore software industry — especially in India. I remember just 8 years back it used to be a tough task to educate the decision makers in the US on the incredible advantages outsourcing could provide to their companies.

Today, the outsourcing idea is already sold. The question is really how to select the right outsourcing partner, how to implement collaborative development and project management methodologies to gain maximum efficiency and quality in the development process, how to leverage offshore outsourcing to become more agile and reduce time-to-market, etc.

My interest surely would be to hear the stories from the horses’ mouths, understand the pains and concerns that customers have related to outsourcing, understand some of the best practices that our comrades in the industry are following, etc.

]]> By: Miko Matsumura http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-852 Miko Matsumura Sat, 25 Mar 2006 00:06:06 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-852 Ismael Ghalimi is a great thought leader and should be at the nexus of this very vital gathering. Hoping to learn a lot about the current state of the market in innovative software and other world flattening topics... Miko Matsumura Ismael Ghalimi is a great thought leader and should be at the nexus of this very vital gathering. Hoping to learn a lot about the current state of the market in innovative software and other world flattening topics…

Miko Matsumura

]]> By: Ismael Ghalimi http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-822 Ismael Ghalimi Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:08:34 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-822 To date, we have 12 confirmed participants, including representatives from Oracle and SAP. This should make for a very interesting event. The <a href="http://itredux.wufoo.com/forms/the-world-is-flat-breakfast/">registration form</a> we built with Wufoo seems to be holding up as well. To date, we have 12 confirmed participants, including representatives from Oracle and SAP. This should make for a very interesting event. The registration form we built with Wufoo seems to be holding up as well.

]]> By: Ismael Ghalimi http://itredux.com/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-821 Ismael Ghalimi Thu, 23 Mar 2006 22:59:23 +0000 http://itredux.com/blog/2006/03/08/first-itredux-breakfast/#comment-821 People willing to join us for the breakfast should <a href="http://itredux.wufoo.com/forms/the-world-is-flat-breakfast/" rel="nofollow">register here</a>. People willing to join us for the breakfast should register here.

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