Strategy involves determining the company’s intent. Strategy is expressed in an understanding of the environment, an expression of ambition, decisions regarding the allocation of resources and plan of execution. Strategy provides a perspective on where and how the company will win from the inside out. Design entails understanding and expressing customer intent. Expressed in terms of persona’s, needs, journey maps, touchpoints and prototypes. Design provides a perspective on how and why customers win from the outside in.

File under: Enterprise computering considered difficult. Be careful what wish-contract for. Agility is expensive if your budget cycle is on years. Maybe hire your own people? Source: Dirty Little Secrets of your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget

File under: Enterprise computering considered difficult. Be careful what wish-contract for. Agility is expensive if your budget cycle is on years. Maybe hire your own people? Source: Dirty Little Secrets of your System Integrator: Why Companies Still Go Over Budget

With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you’ll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store’s inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client. Some of the companies that already support this new format are Booking.com, Despegar, Doodle, Ecwid, Freshworks, Nexxt, OYO Rooms, Pinterest and redBus. If you regularly get emails from these companies, then chances are you’ll receive an interactive email from them in the coming weeks.

With AMP for Email, those messages become interactive. That means you’ll be able to RSVP to an event right from the message, fill out a questionnaire, browse through a store’s inventory or respond to a comment — all without leaving your web-based email client. Some of the companies that already support this new format are Booking.com, Despegar, Doodle, Ecwid, Freshworks, Nexxt, OYO Rooms, Pinterest and redBus. If you regularly get emails from these companies, then chances are you’ll receive an interactive email from them in the coming weeks.

When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about "release fatigue." Have you seen that in the Java community? It's sort of like asking, if your kids had Christmas twice a year, do you think they'd experience "Christmas fatigue?" The parents might, I guess. What I'm hearing people say now is that they are seeing so much evidence that updating to 9 and finding the move to 10 and 11 so smooth, they're excited about the new cadence and what's coming down the pike.

When the new six-month cadence was announced there was some talk about "release fatigue." Have you seen that in the Java community? It's sort of like asking, if your kids had Christmas twice a year, do you think they'd experience "Christmas fatigue?" The parents might, I guess. What I'm hearing people say now is that they are seeing so much evidence that updating to 9 and finding the move to 10 and 11 so smooth, they're excited about the new cadence and what's coming down the pike.

to;dr: decouple your shit, fools. Source: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

to;dr: decouple your shit, fools. Source: SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?

The bank has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider with the intention of porting its production workloads, including its customer facing platforms and strategic core banking applications to the cloud. From what I can tell talking with banks, they’re over that 2010 thing of “public cloud isn’t secure enough.” Now it’s a scramble to move their shit up there. Source: Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud