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.

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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Apps Rationalization * 2 + Slow Technology

Posted on 11/08/2011 by Ron Tolido

I am using the relatively calm period of summer holidays to write a set of articles. One of them will be a major addition to a (multi-author) book about the Slow Movement. My current working title for that feature is … Continue reading →

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Release magazine column: Nieuwe Wijn, Oude Zakken

Posted on 01/07/2011 by Ron Tolido

Ik heb een eenvoudige vuistregel die ik graag deze zomer ter overpeinzing meegeef: je zit al veel te lang in het IT-vakgebied als je begint te vinden dat alle vernieuwingen Oude Wijn in Nieuwe Zakken zijn. We kennen het type … Continue reading →

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Release magazine column: Trein op Hol

Posted on 26/05/2011 by Ron Tolido

Filmsterren en artiesten, ik mag er graag naar verwijzen als ik heel nu en dan eens op een podium sta. Zo heb ik enkele jaren geleden menig tot op het bot gemotiveerde IT’er na de lunch klaarwakker weten te houden … Continue reading →

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