First IT|Redux Breakfast
Wednesday, March 8th 2006 | Ismael Ghalimi
Author’s note: this post follows this article (recommended reading).
Weblogs are great networking tools, but nothing can beat good old-fashioned face-to-face meetings, especially when they come with nice food and drinks. With that in mind, I have decided to organize regular events during which readers of this blog will be able to meet and discuss about recently-covered topics. The first event of this type will be a breakfast to take place at the Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, CA on Tuesday, April 18, 2006, from 8:00 AM to 10 AM.
The theme for this meeting is The World is Flat, based on Thomas L. Friedman’s excellent book. We will discuss how Friedman’s ten flatteners can be put to use by software vendors today, using Intalio and a couple other start-ups as reference cases. This event is sponsored by Lohika — our offshore development partner — and will feature their CTO, Mark Phillips, who will share his experience working with small and large software companies that successfully offshored part of their software engineering process to Western Ukraine.
If you work for a software company and want to learn about hybrid business models that blend open source and commercial software, understand the benefits of offshore development beyond simple cost reduction, become more familiar with our Demand Driven Development process, get a preview demo of the upcoming Intalio|BPMS 4.1, or simply eat the best croissants you can get in the Bay Area, please register here and join us to this free breakfast.
And because I would fail my duty as Chief Office 2.0 Evangelist if I did not inject some neat online service into the mix, our registration form was developed with the ultra cool Wufoo form editor. I might very well be the first production user for this service, which still is under heavy development as I am writing these lines, and the good folks at Infinity Box literally worked around the clock from Sunday night to Wednesday morning to give me access to a preview release. I cannot say how much I appreciate the effort, and am eagerly waiting for the public release. In the meantime, all I can tell you is that Wufoo rocks and that I have added a new project to my Office 2.0 Mashup List that consists in integrating Wufoo with Salesforce.com. If that sounds like fun to you, come give us a hand in developing one of these mahsups.
Entry filed under: BPM 2.0, Office 2.0, Offshoring, Open Source
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People willing to join us for the breakfast should register here.
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.
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
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.
I would love to join you folks on this. I just registered. Looking forward to it.
Raju
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.
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 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. […]
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.
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