Pete Swabey at Information Age interviewed me and others for a list of 11 ideas to inspire IT strategy:
1. Use the Internet as your WAN
2. Allow staff to use their own laptops
3. Hire educators in the IT department
4. Use Facebook as a shop front
5. Find out when your customers are in store
6. Set up an IT 'skunkworks'
7. Sell your own software
8. Build an internal app store
9. Reuse the heat from your data centre
10. Use fresh air cooling
11. Spin your own web of linked data
As a clarification, I contributed to item 7. I meant every business should be thinking of its own version of “smart product” – not just software, but also other embedded technology as I wrote a few weeks ago in The Phenomenon of the Technology “Buyor”
