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Software Development Literacy – Wave of the Future or Doomsday Device?

A few months ago, I read a newspaper article – which unfortunately I can’t find – about the idea that software development literacy may someday seem as normal as reading literacy is today. I didn’t think it was far-fetched at all. In today’s world *everyone* touches a computer in some way, even if it’s only…

Applying "Product Service Systems" to Corporate Environments

There’s a great article in the Boston Sunday Globe today entitled The Leased Life. It talks about what is termed the “product service system”.  The basic idea is that many of the things we buy we don’t buy because we want the thing itself, but what the thing can do for us.  We buy tomatoes…