What I make for a living?

Sometimes I’m asked about my job and what it consist in. Well, time ago I used to joke about and I used to repeat a line from a film; I solve problems.

Now, seriously; in my LinkedIn profile I describe myself as a IT Trusted Advisor. So, what does it means? I help my customers to find the best IT solution for a need or problem. Nowadays my customers are from inside the company but from time to time I’ve to face projects that impact directly on end customers.

That help means much more that you may imagine in a first sight. For instance;

  • define clearly what the customerneeds
  • concrete what problem we’re trying to solve
  • propose a solution, which may be something quite different from what customer was asking for
  • supervise that everything is done and it’s done on time
  • write manual, documentation, procedures, they all have to be clear and useful ones
  • evaluate when everything has ended if the target was achieved

Most amazing and challenging thing is to deal with people. It’s really difficult to express it. Sometimes is hard, but many times it’s a wide open window to learning, in many senses, not only in professional terms but also in personal terms

Blackberry sell to Fairfax

There has been a lot of buzz about Blackberry’s sell to Fairfax, its major stockholder.

Please, let me remind you a few previous material:

  • I said Firefox OS was a “maybe” although I’m convinced it’s late.
  • I also said that Ubuntu for phones was definitely late and it has a lack of company support that Firefox OS has achive from majors telco as Telefonica

Major players at corporate mobile devices IMHO are: Android, Apple, Windows. It’s crazy for me since iOS has not been design for corporate deployment, Android is still more oriented to end user than to companies. Both companies needs to advance in MDM features

There was a chance to Blackberry to rise from the ashes, unfortunatelly for a healthy competition I guess they’re out of the game. Who’s left? Find your answer and don’t forget they all are moving, and moving really fast.

What is going to happen with Blackberry? I have no data at all and this is one of my foresight based on my previous knowledge and experience: Blackberry is going to follow the same path that Palm. Good product, lack of direction.

I guess Fairfax just want to monetize its investments and try to manage patents and know-how from a former leader. Probably patents and code from Blackberry ends up inside some other company. That’s my bet.

Open Government

Have you ever heard to talk about Open Government? If you don’t you should start by having a look on Wikipedia’s Open Government article.

This one of my latest focus of interest, the technology meets with society and allows access information about how we’re managing our cities and countries.

If you want to know more about how IT may help people and Governments I recommend you few links as a start:

I would like to writte more about this… or so I hope.

Everything needs time

In a hurry life, is worthy to remember; everything needs time:

“Everything good needs time. Don’t do work in a hurry. Go into details; it pays in every way. Time means power for your work. Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.”
Amelia E. Barr

(via Swissmiss)