Author Archives: jbuonocore

Talk to Me, Baby

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How do you get from psychotherapy to natural language processing to healthcare to mobile applications in one blog? 
Easy.  Check out http://mcnallylab.com/ and their related study http://handheldtrainingstudy.com/. Richard McNally is a professor at Harvard.  He and his team are researching cognitive behavior modification (CBM) and a new technique that uses computer programs…

The Three Wisemen – Hardware Predictions for the Next Decade

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My wife and I were on vacation.  We brought 9 information devices with us.  I had a new Motorola Flipout Android phone and two laptops.  She had three Blackberries, my hand-me-down iPhone, an iPad, and two laptops.  (The wife’s total was partly transitional. One BB was a corporate replacement of…

Another B’s Law – The Amount of Wetware Remains Constant

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qW1 = qW2/ct
I may have just discovered my second law (see “Buonocore’s Law” elsewhere in this blog and ComputerWorld).  Actually I can’t take all the credit for this one.  It was a collaboration with an architect colleague (props, Jess – u out there?).
Here’s the law:  the Amount of…

Follow the Yellow Brick Road – Portfolio Roadmapping Lessons Learned

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This is a bit of a long blog that could be broken up, but I’m modest enough to know that if you actually are interested in this one, it’s unlikely I’ll get your attention again anytime this year.
Three things happen to strategic roadmaps.  They collect dust.  They bundle a predetermined…

Balanced Diet for Procurement

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Balanced incentives make for better purchasing.  Today’s IT procurement is often biased towards low cost, but that isn’t the only recipe for success.
Has anyone seen the building buzz around insourcing?  Read the buzz and much of the content begins with an account of spotty outsourcing efforts and the frustrations…

To Be Relevant or Not to Be

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70% relevance isn’t good enough.  Captive enrichment is the near term way to do much better for high value use cases.
70% ain’t great.  Yet, that’s about what you get on average with your common search engine – including the market leader.  Sure, if you’re looking for a hotel in…

Buonocore’s Law

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To initiate my first blog post here, I’m going to play back a letter-to-the-editor I wrote in 1995 to Infoworld.  (Remember LsTTE? Blogs were not invented until 1997).  This particular letter was about Metcalfe’s Law.
Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of ethernet, and Infoworld columnist, revisited his famous law in a…