Roger Strukhoff

Flip 80/20 and Go. What does that mean? Flip 80/20 means to stand the conventional wisdom that IT spends 80 percent of its resources on management and 20 percent on innovation. Actually, while researching an article last year on this topic, I located some academic work done in Eu... (more)

Flip 80/20 and Go. What does that mean? Flip 80/20 means to stand the conventional wisdom that IT spends 80 percent of its resources on management and 20 percent on innovation. Actually, while researching an article last year on this topic, I located some academic work done in Eu... (more)

I am not an early adopter. As a semi-slow native Midwesterner, I need to think new things over, often for a long time, before deciding they're OK. Thus I am starting my Cloud Computing conversation now, rather than a year or more ago. In my job as Editor-in-Chief of NOW Magazine, I... (more)

Did dinosaurs really become extinct or did they just evolve into birds? Did all the Neanderthals really die or did they devolve into us? (Remember, evolution doesn't necessarily mean better, it just means more apt to survive current conditions.) Thus I view with enormous skeptici... (more)

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Peter Hermans, noted SOA consultant and former architect at a major European telecommunications company. The Continuing Role of ESB Strukhoff: So let’s talk a bit about ESBs and the role they play as you as you move forward to... (more)

Peter Hermans spent more than two decades with the Dutch telco company KPN, and is currently active as an independent consultant and program manager in several industries. This is the first part of a two-part interview. The Early Days Strukhoff: Before we jump into SOA, let’s talk... (more)

This interview, long neglected, has now been re-released in online form, so that Greg's adoring fans worldwide can get to know the figurine icon just a little better. It appeared originally in 2008 in the pages of NOW Magazine, which retains all rights. Follow Greg at www.gregth... (more)

Did dinosaurs really become extinct or did they just evolve into birds? Did all the Neanderthals really die or did they devolve into us? (Remember, evolution doesn't necessarily mean better, it just means more apt to survive current conditions.) Thus I view with enormous skeptici... (more)

It was with amazement that I read of China premier Wen Jiabao's wish for the US to remain "a credible country." Wen was expressing his fears of a weaker dollar, which would diminish the value of China's trillion-dollar-plus holding in US treasury bonds, and multi-trillion-dollar ... (more)

Slow news day, so a 30-minute outage by Google--shutting "millions" out of their email accounts, gasp--merits some seriously extensive coverage. Google responds by promising to be more open and transparent about acknowledging and addressing such outages. Great, OK, fine. But how ab... (more)

HBD Venture Capital (www.hbd.com) is a South African company based in the Cape Town area, founded by Mark Shuttleworth in 2000. The company invests in early stage South African companies with high growth potential. HBD’s CEO, Julia Long, spoke with us recently on the topic of in... (more)

Joe Manna is CIO of Live Nation, based in Beverly Hills, CA. A native of southern California, he double majored in math and computer science at Cal State-Fullerton before starting his career in technology. He’s spent many years as a CTO, but now finds himself interacting more cl... (more)

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