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You too can lose over 15kg (2.3 stone) in just 15 weeks by following this simple and cost effective weight loss plan!  It's so simple, just burn more calories than you consume!  The process of losing weight just couldn't be any more straightforward, but somehow this simple process has become overcomplicated. There are now so many fads, including ludicrous “wonder” diets, each with claims for

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Some time ago I was asked to contribute an article to The Sentinel - an online magazine targeting English language readers in Amsterdam. At that time The Sentinel was fairly new and had a small but loyal readership of mainly British and Irish ex-pats living in Amsterdam, who all shared an interest in English fantasy football and Dutch beer, and who were all also from time-to-time inclined to

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Last night I met socially with some mobile industry colleagues from a couple of large mobile payments players in the credit cards industry, and a large mobile operator. It was great to chew the fat and share stories about what we were all doing ten years ago and to compare that with how the market has developed since that time. This got me thinking about what have been the most reliable

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A local school where I'm governor has recently undergone inspection by the UK government education sector regulator Ofsted. I’ve been a governor at the school for several years, and I was closely involved in the recent inspection. The previous Ofsted inspection took place during 2009 shortly after the current head-teacher took the reins, and at that time the school was deemed to be just ‘

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Many of us have had an Internet 'eureka moment'. Mine was in 1995 when I was working as a software engineer on a fairly large development project for Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge Massachusetts USA. It was one of my first software design roles and I’d been given the task of coming up with some C++ code needed to define and implement a 'factory' class. Now then, if you're thinking that

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It seems linear systems have a big problem – they're unsustainable!  They promote conformity (usually at the expense of diversity), they encourage built-in obsolescence (typically at the expense of re-use), and they generate a tremendous amount of waste. The 'Story of Stuff' video explains why our 20th century model of consumerism is fundamentally flawed. It's a linear system, and it's clear we

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It's just over a year since I boarded the Logica Revenue Management Express at Durham station on route home after a three day proposition workshop with a couple of colleagues. I recall the train journey back to London and the feeling of excitement about the growth potential for Logica, albeit with some trepidation for the size and complexity of the task ahead! Now we've completed the first

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“Revenue Management… isn’t that really just about billing?” Well actually - and as I’m very quickly learning - no it’s not. It is however, a key business process within all service providers that covers the income of cash from customers to whom goods and services have been provided. Now that definition is a bit of mouthful, but in terms of systems it covers nearly all the functions within the

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Have been wondering about the market opportunity for low-cost authentication technology based on soft-tokens, and the provision of managed soft-token services hosted in the Cloud and deployed in a SaaS model for enterprise and public sector clients. Perhaps soft-tokens could improve secure access to enterprise apps for business smart phone users? Or perhaps they could be used within e-Safety

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The mobility of mobile customers can be calculated from the number of miles travelled by each customer during one month. This mobility information means customers can be segmented according to whether they have high mobility or low mobility. High mobility customers are those that travel over long distances whilst using their mobile phone, and low mobility customers are those that travel over

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When developing the mobile Internet experience for the mass-market, we’ve traditionally taken a bottom-up approach using mobile device capabilities to guide design decisions. The bottom-up approach means mobile operators have classified devices in their portfolios according to constraints such as the physical dimensions, functionality, and performance of the device. Device classes typically range

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Globalisation is changing the way we workThe effects of globalisation are being felt throughout the enterprise space. We are increasingly confronted by the need to accelerate decision making; we are required to coordinate activities across diverse groups of internal teams and external partners and suppliers, we need to be able to interact quickly, flexibly, and effectively with all these people

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Towards the end of the last millenium I led the innovation and development activities at a Dutch technology start-up company called Small Planet Software based in Amsterdam. From a standing start in December 1996 with an empty office and a blank sheet of paper it took a further three years of dazzling creativity and an extraordinary amount of individual personal sacrifice (which characterised

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Education and research networks are typically publicly funded by tax payers and generally exist to provide reliable and secure network connectivity and communication services to a relatively closed community, or niche, of education and research sector 'customers' – usually confined by national boundaries but peered with other education and research networks internationally and commercial network

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A couple of weeks back I was fortunate to attend a three day TMForum training course covering the Business Process Framework (eTOM). I've dabbled with this framework sucessfully in past to help win business for my current employer Logica, though I'm definitely not an expert, so it was good to have the opportunity to dig deeper into the details over the three days of the training course and

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As the October date of the annual Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 approaches, we're now beginning to catch glimpses of Microsoft's Cloud computing strategy. We'll have to wait until October and Ray Ozzie's keynote speech to get the complete picture, but there doesn't seem to be much doubt that Microsoft does have something significant up its sleeve to compete with Google and

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This post provides a view of how an online interaction platform might be used to drive usage of SaaS applications in the enterprise. An enterprise online interaction platform (OIP) is an enabling platform for SaaS providers who are focussed on enterprise segment customers. The online interaction platform includes IT Services that support the whole of the SaaS lifecycle. The online interaction

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This post gives a high-level description of a strategic value proposition for IT Service providers working with SaaS and network service providers in the enterprise space, and introduces the concept of an enterprise online interaction platform that leverages the power of Web 2.0 technology to accelerate usage of SaaS in the enterprise. IT Services providers should engage at the highest level with

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