Dit is de Engelse vertaling van het artikel: "Software is geen product".

The idea is ubiquitous: software is a "thing". You engineer it, you build it. When you are done you appraise the end-result as a master artist views his piece.

To do it better, you think about improving your b...

This is the Dutch translation of the article: "Software is not a product".

Het is een alomtegenwoordig idee: software is een "ding". Het wordt ge-engineerd, gebouwd. Als het klaar is bewonder je het eindresultaat zoals een kunstenaar zijn werkstuk.

Om het beter te doen, denk je na ...

Big Data is the Big Thing at the moment.

It won't be ten years from now. And not because we tackled the technical aspects of handling it, or created huge business intelligence systems capable of harvesting the treasures hidden in it. Or because it has become generally accepted and arrived at Gartner'...

Executive management doesn't have a clue.

Everybody I talk to in organisations large and small agree. And I am talking managers here.

They try. They do their best. They start doubting their intelligence. They install control mechanisms. They install more control mechanisms. Heck, they might even try (...

Society is undergoing fundamental changes.

This is not unique for our time and age, but both speed and depth of these changes are probably greater than we have seen in centuries.

Enterprises are, whether they want it or not, both party and subject in these changes.

The way businesses were organised in ...