Monthly Archives: September 2013

  It does not matter what vendors say about big data – end of the day, customers need to adopt and expand for big data to live up to its promise. If they don’t adopt – big data will just go the same way as many other passing fads that had the potential to changeContinue reading “Big Data : Platform vs Applications”

I have to thank Frank Scavo for making me think harder about what context means . I and several people I know use the term liberally , and perhaps not very consistently . Here is my hypothesis – Answer to every question has a core (which has great precision) and a context (less precise ,Continue reading “What on earth do you mean by CONTEXT ?”

My pal Chris Paine wrote an excellent post http://www.wombling.com/hr/should-you-be-a-manager/ which was in response to a rant on “talent” I posted a couple of days ago. He definitely got me thinking on two counts. Why did my post get more attention than usual ? and should “talent” become managers ? First part, I think I haveContinue reading “Should “talent” move on to manager/leader roles ?”