Sixty-seven years ago a giant was born.

On June 11, 2011 Dr. Eli Goldratt passed away at his home in Israel. Dr. Eli Goldratt is remembered as an educator, author, scientist, philosopher, and business leader. But he will, first and foremost, always be remembered as a thinker who provoked others to think.

Eli spent his entire adult life fighting to show that it is possible to make this world a better place. We must have the honesty to see reality as it is, we must have the courage to challenge assumptions, and above all, we must use the gift of thinking. Having applied these principles to various management fields, he created the Theory of Constraints (TOC). His concepts and teachings have expanded beyond management and are being used in healthcare, education, police work, counseling, government, agriculture and personal growth - and the list of the fields using TOC goes on and on. Dr. Goldratt's legacy is invaluable.

In memoriam and celebration of his life, tomorrow on June 11th Goldratt Marketing will provide open access to ALL of Dr. Goldratt's video presentations available at TOC.tv: www.TOC.tv/videos/Eli-Goldratt 

To view Eli's videos, you will be required to login or to register. There is no charge to do so.

Please enjoy these energizing, brilliant and powerful presentations from the founder of the Theory of
Constraints. "Making TOC knowledge readily available to the world"

Gartner Says New Relationships Will Change Business Intelligence and Analytics

Gartner Says New Relationships Will Change Business Intelligence and Analytics

Analysts to Discuss the Future of BI at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2011, January 31- February 1, in London and May 2-4, in Los Angeles

Egham, UK, January 6, 2011—    Business intelligence (BI) and analytics leaders need to embrace four trends that are set to challenge traditional assumptions about these technology areas, according to Gartner, Inc.

“The market for BI and analytics is undergoing gradual evolution,” said Neil Chandler, research director at Gartner. “By 2014, the metamorphosis of BI from IT-owned and report-centric will be virtually complete for a large number of organizations. These organizations will change what types of BI and analytics they use. They will change how they procure them and where they procure them from, and they will modify how information feeds decision making. BI and analytics leaders should embrace the technology, market and management trends that will transform this field within a few years.”

As part of its Predicts 2011 body of research, Gartner has identified four key BI predictions to help organizations plan for 2011 and beyond:

1- By 2013, 33 percent of BI functionality will be consumed via handheld devices.


2- By 2014, 30 percent of analytic applications will use in-memory functions to add scale and computational speed. By 2014, 30 percent of analytic applications will use proactive, predictive and forecasting capabilities.

3- By 2014, 40 percent of spending on business analytics will go to system integrators, not software vendors.

4- By 2013, 15 percent of BI deployments will combine BI, collaboration and social software into decision-making environments.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1513714

InfoQ: Gartner Vendor Report: Application Infrastructure For Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects

InfoQ: Gartner Vendor Report: Application Infrastructure For Systematic SOA-Style Application Projects

Gartner’s Top Predictions, 2011

 Here the Gartner’s Top Predictions, 2011:

• By 2015, a G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage.

• By 2015, new revenue generated each year by IT will determine the annual compensation of most new Global 2000 CIOs.

• By 2015, information-smart businesses will increase recognized IT spending per head by 60 percent.

• By 2015, tools and automation will eliminate 25 percent of labor hours associated with IT services.

• By 2015, most external assessments of enterprise value and viability will include explicit analysis of IT assets and capabilities.

• By 2015, 80% of enterprises using external cloud services will demand independent certification that providers can restore operations and data

• By 2015, companies will generate 50% of Web sales via their social presence and mobile applications

• By 2015, 20 percent of non-IT Global 500 companies will be cloud service providers.

• By 2014, 90 percent of organizations will support corporate applications on personal devices.

• By 2013, 80 percent of businesses will support a workforce using tablets.

• By 2015, 10 percent of your online “friends” will be nonhuman.

The full presentation can be found at: http://www.brighttalk.com/custom/gartner/channels/channel2

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What is the next hype?

The next hype. What was yesterday? What is going on now? what will be tomorrow? Questions that occupy leaders all around in order to make sure they are riding on the right wave. It is not easy while is  very important trying to be with the right thing in the right place on the right time.

Gartner is trying to help us by giving us the hype cycle and you can see here for example the 2009 Gartner's prediction about the best next thing:

The above picture describes the 2009 hype cycle. you notice right away that the top areas that rule the top are "Cloud Computing" and "eBook Readers". interesting enough you see that in 2009 the areas are buzzing all over the net.

the following diagram shows the break down of different cloud computing areas:

in the next blog i will dive into several of the main areas in cloud computing.

now trying to post using Blogger, looks cool so far, much better than the microsoft live spaces blog.