Recently, I decided to begin compiling a comprehensive list of golf courses I have played and rate them on a 0 to 10 scale. Now, with the Covid stay at home orders, I have found the time to complete this list. Sometimes golf is secondary and spending time on a special piece of land is …
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Why are there no labeling requirements for software? Most people and organizations rely on critical applications, websites, and business solution platforms every day. However, we do not have much insight into what’s behind the curtain. Where does it come from? Who made it? It is much like trying to determine who built all the ancient …
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When I was a kid one, of the more fun moments of learning was the ability to get my hands on a nice set of encyclopedia books. Since no world wide web existed it was truly the only way to easily browse new subjects or to gain more background in ones where I already held …
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I find that most companies have access to the same toolsets in the marketplace and many of them have mostly identical technology ecosystems. Why will one thrive while the other struggles? In a prior post, I said a digital transformation culture is needed to succeed for most organizations. What if that culture exists, management is …
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When most people in technology hear the term “Social Acceptance”, they immediately equate it to the traditional “User Acceptance”. It sounds like a modernization of the term. We have social networks, internal team collaboration platforms, and everything is supposed to be “social” nowadays. But social acceptance has a unique meaning for digital transformation. User-Focused? The …
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When I was learning how to program at the University of Houston in the late 80s, I was part of the MIS program at the College of Business, which then was a blend of computer science and business. I spent many an hour hunched over a terminal and gigantic keyboard connected to the Digital VAX …
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History has shown a pattern of wars where new technologies are introduced to the battlefield only to be implemented with outdated tactics and strategies leading to untold horrors. (World War I for example.) While we in technology usually do not have to face such fundamental life and death consequences such as a war, we do …
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Darrenflatt.com is back and I am glad you, dear reader, are here. If you didn’t visit it the first time no worries, clemency is granted. I am giving my ideas and thoughts a forum that I hope will be both interesting and valuable. Technology, business, whiskey, golf, technology ethics, philosophy, history, moonshots, music will get …
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