Random Telecom and IT Ideas

My Way

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:30:32 PDT

I am on vacation from today until 1.10.2010.... That is the date when my company will officially start with operations. I will briefly explain why, what and some other questions in this short blog post. If you have any interest in it, read on... if not, browse to the next blog.... Why? I've been working in corporate sector for my entire career. It's very easy to get used to the comfort and

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Fight Power with Power

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:56:22 PST

There is a raging debate going on for decades now, about how corporations, actually the capital itself, is ruling the world instead of officially elected politics. I am not that much concerned about the new world order, but rather the phenomenon of the corporations that we think are in charge today. Their internal dynamics is so inefficient that it makes me scared when imagining how crucial

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Extreme Transparency and Data for all

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:02:00 PDT

I've just red an interview with Vivek Kundra, a US government CIO, in the new Wired magazine. It is impressive how radically he is about to change the level of government transparency by applying some well known and already widely accepted (in real sector) standards for investment management. Two bold goals are highlighting his strategy:Radical transparencyWe, the tax payers, want to know how is

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Search vs. Directory

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:07:48 PDT

Data classification or content catalogues on the Internet have died long time ago. Lycos, Excite, Altavista, Yahoo, MSN.... Long list of unsuccessful attempts to classify the Internet content into a meaningful list of categories. Then comes Google and it promotes idea of simple search box. Everybody hooks up.In the same time, plenty of enterprises are looking into Knowledge Management projects

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Steve Zimba on Telco 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:00:20 PDT

Steve Zimba is definitely a refresh for Microsoft's communication sector. I've just red an interview with him at Telco2.0 where he is discussing the Telecom transformation. The bottom line – everybody knows the story, everybody is sure about the business development scenarios but no one is really going there. Why is that? Steve only says it's not in their DNA - even repeats this couple of times.

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I've just lost a couple of pages long post

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:48:05 PDT

I am pissed off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Dear Google, since I've selected a whole text in order to change font and unintentionaly hit space, I've got a blank page in front of me.In that very same moment autosave featere kicked in, and whooops - it's all gone.Nice feature would be a version control, so you can see all past versions of the text if you need to recover it.I am starting to use MS Word as my blog

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Sevid

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:29:03 PDT

I've just got into a place called Sevid - small weekend retreat nearby Split. It's really a very quiet place, since couple of years ago it had no running water, electricity or telephone.Now, I am blogging via the UMTS T-Mobile USB stick. Web-addiction has spread all over the world, leaving no intact places behind. It's obvious that now I can think about business issues only as something in a

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Misbalanced Scorecard

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:27:49 PDT

Have you ever thought about ultimate business values and their systematic classification? In my opinion, all can be grouped under four simple ideas:grow the revenues (top line growth)reduce cost (bottom line efficiency)improve time to market (business agility)increase quality (reduce number of defects in business process or product)At first glance everything seems fine, and I guess, everybody

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Service Delivery Platforms - reality check

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:47:24 PDT

Recently, I've spoke about the Telecom growth strategies. One of the technological drivers anticipating the new growth potentials was an SDP concept - Service Delivery Platform. So far, it hasn't really demonstrated it's full potential in terms of carrier deployments, revenue generation or new services enablement. It's been mostly a vendor pitch for selling their expensive applications stacks

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KNOL

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:10:23 PST

Today, I've learned about the KNOL. It's a new Google product, basically a mixture between the Blog and Wikipedia.What's so special about it? It may never become very popular, but on the other hand, it has a great potential to become a blog of knowledge. A new medium for the people that don't blog about what they had for lunch, or what happened to them on their way home from work (usually nothing

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Losing coolness

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:10:24 PST

Is it possible to recognize that moment in time when companies loose their coolness? Looking into couple of recent examples, I am not sure that moment is really a discrete point in time. It's more like a gradual cultural erosion of the specific values that have made a certain company cool. First fact to recognize here - there is nothing cool about corporations.By definition, they should be boring

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How to avoid being a clueless CIO?

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:02:57 PDT

There is a great article published at the http://www.cio.com/ by Mike Gualtieri about classical CIO mistakes. It's about nine reasons why app developers think that their CIOs are clueless. Although presented in very concise bullets, I will try to elaborate further on couple of most interesting points.Evergreen discussions on CIO behaviour topic is mainly about their ability to build trust through

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Business Value Overkill

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:28:07 PDT

What is the worst nightmare for any vendor in the IT industry? It's the moment when their products or services become commodity goods. At that point in time you can't charge premium margins any more since the only competitive factor is the price. Couple of years ago, one smart guy said that the whole industry is basically a commodity. He said that IT doesn't matter. This statement has been

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Solutions built for change

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:07:39 PDT

How long does it take to build a holistic enterprise IT solution that spans across majority of your legacy systems? Depending on the size of the company and complexity of your business, it could be even up to several years. Does it really make sense to kick of IT project for which you already know that will last for years? Probably not.First of all, the business challenges you are trying to

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Business schools exercises

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:07:08 PDT

Have you ever been in a business school or a seminar where majority of the content is practical work. If you attended any MBA or MBA alike seminar, you have seen it for sure. So what happens there?You are in the room with 15 to 30 people. The distribution of coolness and intelligence in the room is pure Gauss. It happens very often that those in the middle of the Gauss curve are the loudest or

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Growth

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:07:58 PDT

Constant pressure for growth brings telecoms into very tough situations. Challenging times can very easy become unpleasant, and than you are basically on your way down. No one is really determined to take big risks in the environment where implementation of growth strategy actually means finding new business models.Let's have a closer look at incumbent telecoms. Their margins are pressed from

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Telecom CIO

noreply@blogger.com (Sven) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:08:53 PDT

Very soon after my appointment to the CIO position with our biggest national telecom operator, I was trying to define the new IT strategy for the company. Nobel idea – change the way we do our work, harsh reality – keep the lights on. Furthermore, the harder you try to transform, greater the risk for endangering the daily operations is. So very soon the strategy was formulated – keep the lights

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