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Whistling Past the Graveyard on a Sunny Day
Opinions by Ron Blitstein and Tim Lister; Responses by Tom DeMarco, Lynne Ellyn, Christine Davis, Rob Austin, and Ken Orr
Assertion: IT professionals strive to work with business partners and engineer businesses for efficiency. It is unclear that the challenge of delivering a resilient organization has received sufficient attention.
Is the World Ready for the Semantic Web?
by Mark Choate
I wrote a book proposal in 2003 that boldly announced that the Web was on the verge of a fundamental change from being a repository of documents to a source of knowledge. The Semantic Web, long discussed and theorized about, was on the verge of becoming mainstream, I wrote. The book found no publisher, and I graciously avoided the fate of so many prognosticators who find their predictions proved false (or premature) by the slow, plodding steps of history.
How Value Networks Are Changing the Enterprise
by Verna Allee
Today, businesses are discovering that the "engineered" approach is simply not sufficient to bring growth and prosperity. The goal of process engineering is to drive out variation to achieve consistent outcomes. However, driving out variation also drives out innovation, flexibility, and agility. In fluid markets, and in the global supply chains and exploding innovation that are found in virtually every kind of business, variation is not only a given -- it is desirable!
Web 2.0's Rich Internet Applications
Webinar by John Tibbetts
Join Cutter Senior Consultant John Tibbetts in an exploration rich internet applications (RIAs) that help you increase the "liveness" of a web-based application and combine the responsiveness of a desktop GUI with the zero-installation delivery of a Web application. You'll explore the three principle development approaches for Web 2.0 -- Ajax, Flex, and the Google Web Toolkit. John will share his impression of their strengths and weaknesses, show examples of rich clients developed using these approaches, and offer you a glimpse of what was involved in creating them.
