Comments on: You’re not alone with that thought niggling in the back of your head… http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog/archives/69 Comments on and within the UK SMB Community (Formerly 'UK SMB Girl') Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:22:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: David Overton's Blog http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog/archives/69#comment-115 David Overton's Blog Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:55:30 +0000 http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog/archives/69#comment-115 <strong>Vista and Office for Small Businesses - replying to Susanne's and Vijay's blogs...</strong> Wow, I go on holiday, spend some time catching up on e-mail, and what do I find " There’s a whiff of... Vista and Office for Small Businesses - replying to Susanne’s and Vijay’s blogs…

Wow, I go on holiday, spend some time catching up on e-mail, and what do I find ” There’s a whiff of…

]]> By: iQubed Blog » What’s the Value Proposition…?? http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog/archives/69#comment-107 iQubed Blog » What’s the Value Proposition…?? Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:00:59 +0000 http://www.uksmbgirl.co.uk/blog/archives/69#comment-107 [...] I’ve thought about this quite a bit and my conclusions are that this is a generic issue to do with new technology launches. The vendor always tries to convince us that we must upgrade or buy their latest offering and what why not? They’ve spent many years investing in it and bringing it to market and they believe in it. However, the end user is always sceptical and only the limited “early adopters” are going to get onboard. The mass adoption is going to come somewhere down the line (Gartner have attempted to quantify this and I blogged about this in a previous post). The situation is even more bleak if you read Susanne’s other post, which has an article on how thinking about IT strategically is a fallacy and it’s just a cost of doing business. [...] […] I’ve thought about this quite a bit and my conclusions are that this is a generic issue to do with new technology launches. The vendor always tries to convince us that we must upgrade or buy their latest offering and what why not? They’ve spent many years investing in it and bringing it to market and they believe in it. However, the end user is always sceptical and only the limited “early adopters” are going to get onboard. The mass adoption is going to come somewhere down the line (Gartner have attempted to quantify this and I blogged about this in a previous post). The situation is even more bleak if you read Susanne’s other post, which has an article on how thinking about IT strategically is a fallacy and it’s just a cost of doing business. […]

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