David Clarke
David Clarke
answer business conversion natural next ours questions seemed step
Ours is a business with a lot of questions from clients. If you can answer most questions satisfactorily, the next step to conversion is much easier. It seemed a natural for us.
business ours questions
Ours is a business with a lot of questions from clients.
activity continues key states
Construction activity in our key states continues to be very strong.
albums book dealer exciting finds personal rare
These albums are some of the most exciting and rare finds I have had in the 20 years I have been a book dealer - because they are personal collections that are completely unique.
control culture wider
This indicates a wider culture of control and intolerance of dissent.
although business conversation defining help map mean pushing services technology together
A lot of what SOA is about, what's fundamentally different about SOA, is that it's about defining what services mean to the business. Business and technology together need to map the enterprise. That's fundamentally not a technology activity, although the techies can help there by pushing the conversation in the right direction.
change coming community digging
There's a lot of community pride, and a lot of change coming now that they're not digging up the streets.
available business check defining map processes services step strategy technical technology three using
You need to overlay the business reality. You probably want to have a check on how those business processes map to the technology architecture. Step three is about defining a technical strategy for implementing these business services using available technology.
builders developer heard seen time unheard wants
This is the first time I've ever seen or heard that a developer wants to do the show back to back. And the builders wanted to be in on it again. That's unheard of.
early gone last months people seen technology
We've seen over the last 12 months or so people going into deployments. The technology has gone from early adopter to early majority.
internet picking work
I'm not at all picking on the Internet -- the Internet does what it does well, ... But there are some things where you say, 'That doesn't work right.'
knew patient
I knew we were going to win. I knew if we were just patient and we fought, everything was going to come to us.
believe businesses causing certain factors fiscal impact meet quarter results weakness
Clearly, the results for the quarter and their impact on fiscal 1998 do not meet our expectations or standards. However, we believe that the factors causing this near-term weakness in certain of our diversified businesses are not long-lasting.
exactly
I don't know if we exactly want to do that,