Steve Prentice
Steve Prentice
Steven A. M. Prentice is a published author and a professional speaker, whose area of expertise is the relationship between technology, people and work. He founded the consulting firm The Bristall Group. in 1994, and is a frequent guest on radio and television in Canada and the United States. He also served as a consulting producer on the series CEO-TV. He is a regular lecturer at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology...
business consumer drive geared life markets military product products rather reduce research toward underlying
Consumer markets will drive much of the industry's underlying research and development, rather than the military and business markets. This will significantly reduce product life cycles. Consumer products are geared toward ever-decreasing product life cycles.
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I don't see IT managers replacing servers just for environmental reasons, but if it's to slash 40 percent to 50 percent off electricity costs, that's serious money.
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It's a little early for most organizations to be investing in Web services.
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The real innovation comes when it is widespread enough that a whole range of people start to use it for things that were never conceived of. I would separate the initial technological development from the innovation that arrives from a better understanding of it.