Author Archives: Ron Tolido

About Ron Tolido

Vice-president and Chief Technology Officer of Applications Continental Europe, Capgemini. Director, The Open Group. Blogger for Capgemini’s CTO blog and SlowPlanet, the international hub of the Slow Movement. Lead author of Capgemini’s TechnoVision. Speaks and writes about IT strategy, innovation, applications and architecture (and anything else, if he is asked to). Based in the Netherlands, Mr. Tolido currently takes interest in application rationalization and simplicity.

CTO blog item: 7 Enterprise IT areas to watch in 2012

Posted on 31/12/2011 by Ron Tolido

You didn’t think we would let you go into the New Year without at least one top 7 list from our side, now would you? After all, it may be a time of economic pressure in some parts of the … Continue reading →

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Slow IT

Posted on 30/12/2011 by Ron Tolido

Ik mocht nu alweer enkele jaren geleden een praatje houden op JavaZone: een congres in Oslo dat jaarlijks 2400 software engineers trekt. Wat u zegt, niet helemaal een gelukkig geval van typecasting. Ik heb me in het verleden nog wel … Continue reading →

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Schizophrenic Tester

Posted on 19/12/2011 by Ron Tolido

Ah yes, testers and me. We go back a long, long time. It’s much like love, really. We had our high a few years ago, when I wrote an article series for an IT magazine. In this series I used … Continue reading →

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Black (pardoned) Turkey

Posted on 25/11/2011 by Ron Tolido

Want to have something nice to read on your iPad this weekend? Download Nassim Taleb’s very instructive, still very relevant ‘The Black Swan’. Taleb describes the phenomenon of the Black Swan as a metaphor for unpredictability. You see, until the … Continue reading →

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From Train to Scooter: the journey towards a new generation of Business Technology applications

Posted on 09/10/2011 by Ron Tolido

IT architects should learn: nothing beats a simple, powerful story. No, not even these six-layered, three-dimensional reference frameworks can do that; they are nice to discuss internally – among architects and all – but outside, in the real world, very few … Continue reading →

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Release Magazine #3 column: De Schizofrene Tester

Posted on 27/09/2011 by Ron Tolido

Testers en ik. Ik overdrijf niet als ik zeg dat wij onderling van oudsher een bijzonder warme band hebben. Tegen het liefdevolle aan, eigenlijk. Dat gaat vele jaren terug. Het hoogtepunt  van die relatie is een artikelenreeks die ik een … Continue reading →

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The Best Part of any Computing Device

Posted on 06/09/2011 by Ron Tolido

Traveling back home from holidays in Italy, we were painfully reminded of our sometimes empty-headed, uncritical reliance on real-time information and automated support. Our lovely Flemish speaking on-board navigation system guided us – as usual – through unknown territory. This … Continue reading →

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