Monday, January 13, 2003

eGovernment Maturity. Alan Mather writes frequently about eGovernment in general and particularly in the UK. Today he points to an article on eGovernment in the online section of the Guardian. The article also mentions Alan's blog. Alan has a pretty chart on eGovernment evolution that is analogous to the chart I use for talking about eGovernment maturity. The conclusion that I always make from the chart is that cross agency applications are the thing that governments have to start working on now to reach the next stage. This is the foundation of the message on web services that I'll be taking to the Universal Collaboration workshop tomorrow in DC (traveling today). [Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog] 2:59:09 PM

Blogs refine enterprise focus. Companies are leveraging blogs to streamline business processes [InfoWorld: Top News] "[Weblogs] take highly unstructured, fragmented information and put structure around and send it out to users through the Internet," Simonson said. 4:59:24 AM

Forgetting Sony for a moment Apple, Microsoft drive digital agenda. Rivals outline opposing strategies in the fight to shape enterprise applications [InfoWorld: Top News] Jobs' message emphasized convergence and integration, whereas Gates argued emerging technologies such as SPOT (Smart Personal Object Technology) will create more outlets to transmit data to individual user silos. 4:56:16 AM

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