Cloud computing
claims it's ready to take over as XP retires. But should it?
Phill Rogers writes about forced change and an opportunity to re-think…
Phill Rogers writes about forced change and an opportunity to re-think…
For the first time
since Y2K, businesses are fast approaching another unavoidable decision point.
Nobody likes being forced into something. But with the retirement of XP now
clearly within sight, a decision of what to do next is absolutely inescapable
as more than 1 in 3 PCs in use are still running the ageing but soon to be
unsupported operating system.
In this “post-PC era” a number of disruptive technologies have conspired to offer real change from the traditional upgrade treadmill. A new imperative for green & economic solutions. Faster & more reliable Internet & mobile networks. Fast, cheap, low-power processors. Virtualization and an abundance of mature, advanced, open source software.
While the thin-client* computing model has been around under different names since the dawn of the main frame, today's implementations can immerse the user in an experience better than the PCs they're migrating from despite using a device barely bigger than a thumb.
So why not embrace this opportunity by investing a little of your time to seriously consider how you can make the most of many years worth of technological advances during this looming transition period.
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_client
Phill Rogers July 2013
Technology is a
major component of change and ciChange has been talking to an Social
Psychologist working for Proctor and Gamble about Adoption by Design. Making
technology (and change) easy to adopt and therefore overcoming many of the
barriers to change. We hope to talk more about this in our autumn seminar.
Tim Rogers
Founder ciChange
timrogers@ciChange.org
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/CI-Change-4301853
ciChange seminar and networking events for 2013 sponsored
by Total Solutions Group http://www.tsgi.co/
Just a quick thanks to all those who attended the informal workshop by NorthQuayIT. A lot of good questions and hopefully the variety of technologies demonstrated were able to show some of the answers possible. NorthQuayIT hope to run a similar event in September.
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