By John
21 January 2008
1:26 pm
Location: Ottawa
Over the last several months, a number of you have left comments or asked questions about Nortel’s strategy and direction. Some of you have also left similar comments and questions in other industry blogs and forums.
I thought an interesting and more personal way to tackle some of those questions – instead of just doing a long blog entry – would be for you to hear directly from George Riedel, our Chief Strategy Officer. So, just before the holiday break, I took the opportunity to do a podcast interview/have a conversation with George while we were both at Nortel’s headquarters in Toronto for various meetings.
I essentially asked him many of the questions that you’ve been asking ...
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By John
15 August 2007
8:00 am
Location: Ottawa
Based on the recent dialog around 4G, I’ve invited Richard Lowe, the president of Nortel’s Carrier Networks group, to do a guest blog on Nortel’s 4G strategy, which he’s agreed to do and which I expect to post within the next couple of days. Because Richard ultimately owns the delivery and execution of our 4G solutions, his views are obviously very relevant. In the meantime, a few observations on the dialog from my last entry…
As a level set, there is a huge difference between strategy and tactics. Strategy is a long-term sustainable view of where you want to take a company, market or technology. Tactics are what you do today, tomorrow and the next day ...
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By John
23 March 2007
11:16 am
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Over the last couple of blog entries, I’ve introduced the concept of communications-enabled applications, and talked about the concepts of SOA and Web Services and the advent of middleware. I’ll talk more about these areas in future entries, but today I wanted to use the blog to get a sense of what’s actually happening in these areas in your own companies.
Please take a minute and let me know which one of the following categories you fall into. The focus here is on the Enterprise side of things in terms of the use of SOA and Web Services, as opposed to ...
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