Author: Brian Dooley Talent Management is undergoing significant change as the pressures that define the BfE continue to resonate throughout the business environment. Talent Management processes are being integrated, automated, and analyzed with the same ...

Author: Brian Dooley The current mobile ecosystems, principally in Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, have served the needs of rapid BYOD development well, but their utility is beginning to fracture. A monolithic experience is useful for initial growth, b ...

Authors: Brian Dooley and Alex Bakker The development of mobile platforms and their attached ecosystems by Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Blackberry has created a new competition within IT, in which vendors and mobile platforms themselves fight for mindsh ...

Author: Brian Dooley Catalyzed by the Cloud, “Crowd” is a multifaceted, emerging pattern of behavior capable of providing enormous advantages to those who can corral it. It offers everything from insight to funding for a growing range of successful endea ...

Author: Brian Dooley Growth of analytics and trends in process management and automation are opening the way for a new range of autonomous solutions, in which decisions are made immediately on the basis of real time analysis. This has been seen in manufa ...

Author: Brian Dooley Mobility is creating more, and new, needs for new software development strategies favoring agile development, Cloud deployment, and DevOps approaches.  Many of these practices represent an evolution from what was already happeni ...

Author: Brian Dooley The Enterprise Personal Cloud is a key component of the re-engineered IT vision we have referred to as the Boundary Free Enterprise™.  As yet, the Personal Cloud is poorly understood, and has been considered mainly as an enhance ...

Author: Brian Dooley The fully virtual office is an important emerging development of the Boundary-free Enterprise™ (BFE). It has implications across the enterprise, but particularly in the IT department which must orchestrate its underlying processes an ...

Author: Brian Dooley Analytics and Mobility have a number of important intersections that will help to define enterprise computing, marketing, and software development in the future. As the synergies between these areas continue to develop, we can expect ...

Authors: Brian Dooley and Bruce Guptill IBM has come out with its annual list of innovations that are considered the most likely to change the way people work, live and interact during the next five years. This time, they all revolve around growing abili ...

Author: Brian Dooley Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) is gradually moving to the Cloud under pressure from a wide variety of motives. The Cloud makes it possible to begin looking at a comprehensive risk management strategy, among other things. But t ...

Author: Brian Dooley Enterprise resilience continues to grow in importance, as demonstrated by recent events surrounding Hurricane Sandy. Resilience links concepts of risk management, disaster recovery, GRC, and agility to create a pathway through the th ...

Author: Brian Dooley Enabled and driven by the Boundary-free Enterprise™, we are entering the age of the virtual workforce, in which increasing varieties of jobs can be accomplished by telecommuting, from remote offices, or even on the road. This Strateg ...

Author: Brian Dooley The new mobility of IT, including smartphones and tablets, brings a new wave of sophisticated capabilities to the enterprise, and with it, an increasing collection of “must have” apps from the consumer and self-built space. These app ...

Author: Brian Dooley    While much of the world has labored beneath a recession that has drained investment enthusiasm, the Chinese mobile and Cloud sectors are moving forward on the back of steady, if diminished, economic growth. Although ...

Author: Brian Dooley As mobile usage becomes more mature, different user types and multiple device scenarios are emerging. Continuing to emphasize “mobility” masks the fact that the ability to take a device on the road is only part of its utility. The ra ...

Author: Brian Dooley The Mobile Cloud is evolving rapidly, and creating a cascading series of opportunities and questions across the enterprise. This essential part of the Boundary Free Enterprise™ is set to explode, and requires careful attention to man ...

Author: Brian Dooley Big Data continues to impact vendors and IT users alike as it creates a rising tide of change across the firm, including analytics capabilities, competitive requirements, IT infrastructure, processes, and personnel. Big Data is no lo ...

Authors: Brian Dooley, Bruce Guptill, Bill McNee The concept of business analytics and BI has never been more popular than we see it today. Analyst and media coverage emphasize gains in operational stability and reductions in costs; providers emphas ...

Authors: B.J. Dooley and Charlie Burns Open Source Cloud infrastructure solutions are evolving quickly, with a range of developments that are likely to give them added prominence. Several solutions are now emerging as strong contenders for cloud deployme ...