Category: Future

Oct 15 2005

CICA annual convention

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues
15 October 2005

No posts yesterday; I was at the CICA annual convention in London. The turnout wasn’t great – around 30 or so, including speakers – but most attendees managed to stay to the very end of the day. This was no mean achievement for an all-day event on a Friday, and a lot of credit must …

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Oct 13 2005

Teleworking: motivation factors

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, People issues
13 October 2005

Following on from my last post, the same Silicon.com article quotes a Citrix study which reveals strong support for the idea that flexible working will deliver greater productivity and a more motivated workforce, though it admits opposition to remote working often relates to the perceived death of ‘the office culture’ and the breakdown of teamwork …

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Oct 13 2005

Teleworking secure?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, People issues
13 October 2005

Further to my post about teleworking (6 October), I read today in Silicon.com that increased levels of home working may jeopardise security. The article, ‘Flexibility boom presents security challenge‘, quotes Ross Paul from Websense: "If employees are taking their laptops home and surfing the web in their own time they could have almost anything on …

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Oct 07 2005

New skills, new era

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues
7 October 2005

Tim at Cutting Through reads the same newspaper as me. He, too, was struck by an article in today’s Guardian about the changes in media habits of the current generation of 14-21-year-olds: a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. As Tim points out, this generation of the ‘ultrawired’ …

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Oct 07 2005

SaaS: view from the trenches

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, SaaS
7 October 2005

An ASPnews.com article presents some of the pros and cons of Software as a Service (SaaS) from the perspective of an independent software vendor (Chris Miranda of eMeta) who is clearly an SaaS enthusiast. He added a couple of advantages that I hadn’t fully realised. One argument that will find favour with softwaver vendors is …

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Oct 06 2005

Teleworking revolution: not yet

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, People issues
6 October 2005

A Silicon.com leading article discusses the latest findings from an Office of National Statistics (ONS) study of teleworking in the UK. The headline figures sound promising: home-working has more than doubled in the past eight years with 2.5 million Britons working at home. However, as Silicon.com points out, the majority were self-employed, and only a …

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Oct 03 2005

Differentiation by extranet

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future
3 October 2005

I have written so much over the past year or so that I sometimes forget what’s been published. While browsing the legal sector blog, Knowledgeline, I found a post about how extranets can help legal firms differentiate themselves from their competitors. This reminded that I wrote an article (September 2004) on a similar topic for …