Category Archives: Trust-O-Meter

One big damning multiplier

I do not think I could have written it better, so I decided to quote Bloomberg Businessweek (May 6, 2013) verbatim. I hope I will be forgiven. “Peter Drucker, the celebrated management theorist, certainly thought that the CEO-to-rank-and-file multiplier mattered. … Continue reading

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For techincal support call ..

No, my spell-check did not have a nervous breakdown. It really reads ‘techincal‘ not ‘technical‘. Now the story. I was staying in a hotel. Does not matter where and which one, but that was an English-speaking country. I was connecting … Continue reading

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Trustworthy Software Initiative

I came across this initiative some time ago, and re-visited them recently. They are a kind of information exchange hub for all activities that try to make software more trustworthy – or simply better. We all agree that the average … Continue reading

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A marriage of convenience

Smart city is a woman. Apparently smart grid is a man. These are some of my takeaways from the Smart Grid Smart Cities conference that I chaired in Nice (France). Joking aside, there is is grain of truth in this … Continue reading

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Trustworthy computing, then

When Microsoft published its position paper on trustworthy computing in 2002, they builds their proposition on four pillars: Security Privacy Reliability Business Practices Of those, the world of software developers jumped on the first three. Improving security, privacy and reliability … Continue reading

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