SOA filling the Gaps

Steve Jobs Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers e.g Customers Typology: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Part 3: The Ugly  and Customers Typology: The Social . In other posts I classified Consultants e.g Consultants Typology: The Consultant who knows everything . The post   Mangers Typology: The Captive was the first post classifying Managers.  The Professional manager is an expert. His expertise, knowledge and understanding in the subject matter could be better than the knowledge and understanding of the employees he is managing.  They would ask for his professional opinion and guidance and will not disagree with his technical decisions. Is the Professional a good manager? There is no definitive answer to the question above. The answer depends upon the manager's skills and characteristics and the circumstances.  a personal example I was a successful manager in the first time I was promoted to a management position. ...

Nobody is able to predict accurately. IT is less predictable than other industries because it is a"moving target".  My "Vendors Survival" posts titled: Vendors Survival: will X survive until y (ten years from the year the post was written)? X is a large IT vendor such as Google , Apple , Facebook , Microsoft , IBM . HP etc., could be wrong. Actually I wrote explicitly that my predictions could be wrong. Even predictions for the next year could be wrong. Even leading analysts firms predictions could be wrong. Based on this idea I wrote a post titled: Gartner's 2015 Strategic Predictions: Trivial, Over Estimated and Interesting . Gartner's prediction about IOT as a Strategic Technology was included in the Interesting group i.e predictions that are not trivial and I believe will be important few years after the prediction.  In 2017 it seems that Gartner's IOT Prediction was not a wrong prediction. There are plenty of Things which are Internet entiti...

The entrance to IBM's Headquarter in Armonk Source: Hebrew Wikipedia IBM's earnings declined every quarter in the last 20 quarters. This trend is surely a warning sign which raise the question: Will IBM survive until 2027? Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was one of IBM's larger shareholders. Buffet sold the shares after losing in his IBM investment. He said he hopes that he will not lose in his Apple 's shares investment.   The early days According to Wikipedia, "The company was originated in 1911 as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company and was renamed "International Business machine" in 1924".  The first Mainframes On April 7, 1964 IBM announced its first computer system family: the IBM System/360.  IBM System/360 was t he first IBM Mainframe. Thomas Watson Jr.  was the company's president.  He was warned that he will not be able to compete with the market leader NCR. Few years latter IBM replaced NCR as the market...

Picture Source: Wikipedia In previous posts I classified Customers, e.g.  Customers Typology: The Social .   In other posts I classified Consultants  e.g. Consultants Typology: The Consultant who Knows Everything . In this post series I will try to classify Managers. Why should I post about Captive Manager if I already wrote about   The Captive Customer  and about  The Captive Customer who Knows Everything ? There are similarities between a Captive Customer and a Captive Manager, but they are not identical.  The following real Case Study would clarify the differences.   Tale of two Managers Two Senior IT Managers were working for a large customer of mine. The first Manager was a Microsoft 's Captive Customer. Whenever he had to chose a Microsoft's  product vs. another vendor's product he automatically selected Microsoft's product.  If you read my post  The Captive Customer , you understand why this selection met...