Predictions for 2006

[CajunCenturion]

Bold Predictions for 2006

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[Sympology]

Atomic Powered Flying Cars, that's my prediction. It's been coming since the 1950's so should be here anytime now....

Stu..

Only the truly stupid believe they know everything.
Stu.. 2004

 

[chiph]

The biggest challenge facing every CIO is to conduct a reality-based inventory of the capabilities and competencies of their staff. There is nowhere to hide in the high-performance IT organization of the future. IT leaders will have to figure out who they want on the bus and exfoliate those who don't have the skills and attitudes necessary to move forward. I expect some very visible skill pogroms in 2006.

There's a term I haven't seen applied to firing someone before: exfoliate.

Chip H.


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[sleipnir214]

<from that same quote>

"skill pogrom" has rather on ominous sound to it....

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[jsteph]

here's a term I haven't seen applied to firing someone before: exfoliate.

...As long as they're not using Agent Orange to perform the exfoliation...
--Jim

 

[BocaBurger]

Or a sword.

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[flapeyre]

I have two words for Thornton May:

Eschew obfuscation.

Feles mala! Cur cista non uteris? Stramentum novum in ea posui!

 

[SamBones]

...As long as they're not using Agent Orange to perform the exfoliation...

A couple years ago when my company was having rounds of layoffs, they would invite the people to be let go to a meeting. We soon started calling them Kool-Aid Parties.

 

[GwydionM]

Something at the Bold predications site upset my firewall. Has anyone else had this problem?

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[pmonett]

Good Heavens, I have rarely been subject to such a concentrated dose of PR talk and nonsensical BS in a while.

"The trend toward thinking of staff, or at least managers, as a commodity will begin to slow." No kidding ? Newsflash : it's the employees that get laid off by outsourcing, not the managers. Since when has a manager been a commodity ?

"They must absorb, translate and implement the business vision, but they must also remarket, repackage and promote their work to the business" Water, someone, please !

"The hot skills will be business process modeling, business process languages, codeless development..." Codeless ? Holy cow, now the secretaries will be coders ? Officially ? Yikes !

"Companies will need to drive down operational spending to increase the money to invest in IT transformation." Drive down operational spending . . that means salaries, right ?

"CIOs will rebel against their CFOs and CEOs" I want some of what they're smoking !

"Dual-core servers provide a substantial percentage of performance gains over a single core while consuming less energy and rack space" Possibly true in the server arena, but still, a true 64-bit OS would bring more performance. And that means Linux (maybe) !

"nanotechnology will be put to greater use as a means for authentication" Good Lord where do they dig up these jewels ? Has anyone explained to them that positively ID-ing someone is a tad more difficult than applying a magic word ?

"Someday, companies will no more expect to buy their employees a laptop than they would cars or clothes" Strike that, it's already happening. My company has refused to give me one, saying that the client is supposed to give me the means to work.

"the use of Ajax development techniques can make any browser-based application perform like a client-server or fat client system" And long live the thin client . . again !

"Customers of IT will demand Internet-quality search in the enterprise" does that include the useloss blog sites and pr0n sites as well ? Putting the words "Internet" and "quality" in the same sentence is quite a risk, don't you think ?

I find this article is just a load of CEO-oriented feel-good marketspeak. But of course, we're talking about predictions, not anything that's actually going to happen ;-).

Pascal.

 

[BocaBurger]

You mean they didn't use a genuine psychic for the predictions ?



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[jsteph]

My favorite:

Most critical to the IT industry in the coming year will be the technologies of storytelling and persuasion

When everybody's throwing out all these high falutin phrases, couldn't he have come up with something better than 'storytelling'? How about 'divestiture of acecdotal factoids' or something?
--Jim