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Ernst & Young Technology Trends Discussion
Posted by rod@drury.net.nz in Blogging, Events at 7:10 pm on Wednesday, 29 November 2006

In was nice to be invited back on the premises to do a session to EY customers this afternoon on Technology Trends and Opportunities.

I started my career with Arthur Young (which became EY) and am always grateful for the career foundations provided during my time there. It was good to be able to give something back. There is a very active network of EY alumni so it was also good to catch up with old colleagues.

What I set out to do in the session was to give senior business people a quick snapshot of some of the technology things that are happening at the moment.

As promised a link to the deck is attached for reference, though without my arm waving and ranting it may not make sense to those not present.

Hope to do another session in the new year, Thanks Robert and team for arranging it and getting a good crowd along.

Also, if anyone feels inspired to create a blog, contact the guys at CreateMyWebsite, who will get you up and running quickly and show you what you need to know.

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Comments(9)

    Comment by Andrew at 8:18 am on 30 November 2006

    Whoah. Thanks Rod, for the link and recommendation :)




    Comment by Patrick at 10:05 am on 30 November 2006

    Absolutely! … homework suggestions …
    1. Move home technology out of the backroom - ie wireless multi-media laptop or even mySky
    2. Upgrade to a PDA phone for convenient RSS reading




    Comment by Don Christie at 9:39 am on 1 December 2006

    Rod

    THe untelevised bit of the revolution is this:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/License

    Cheers
    Don




    Comment by Brett Roberts at 1:15 pm on 1 December 2006

    Hmmm…. not sure if I buy the “little business benefit in Vista” comment :-) Apart from that though, this is a *great* presentation - thanks for sharing it




    Comment by Dan at 9:51 pm on 1 December 2006

    With all due respect Don, I don’t understand…




    Comment by Rod at 2:36 pm on 2 December 2006

    My point on Vista is that, unlike previous versions of Windows, there does not appear to be a compelling reason for businesses to upgrade. That does not mean Vista is bad - just that OS’s are ‘done’ for many business users.

    Happy for anyone to list the compelling reasons to upgrade. I’m just not there yet.

    For the first time, ISV’s aren’t necessarily pushing Vista along and it may be a valid strategy to extend the life of the installed base of XP/2003 with products that delay the need to upgrade.

    MS knows this of course which is why other markets like XBox, Zune etc are so important.

    This is also not necessarily a criticism of MS. Its a fairly anticipated point in computing history. What is required now is some real innovation that moves computing to the next level and really drives productivity - Maybe like that Cruise film Minority Report




    Comment by Don Christie at 8:09 am on 4 December 2006

    Dan, you and Rod are writing your blogs using free software released under the GPL. Rod may well have spoken about the impact of the GPL on the software industry but no slide.




    Comment by Dan at 6:21 pm on 4 December 2006

    Thanks Don. That helps explain. I remember a few years ago I went to a good presentation by Michael Wigley. Details here.




    Comment by Mark Fairey at 5:48 pm on 10 December 2006

    Thanks Rod. I very much enjoyed your presentation. I thought I was up with technology trends but didn’t know about RSS - however I did my homework as requested by the teacher and am now addicted to RSS. What a great tool! Thanks Mark