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The examination system is the result of hard-fought politicking

skeptic — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:58:12 +0000

Now be nice to Sharon: I think she has done an extraordinary job. The examination system is the result of hard-fought politicking by "committees" of avaricious competitors trying to maximise revenue and optimise their own position. their "governor" is a for-profit enterprise with entirely the same interests. Waddya expect the result to be? And why hang that on Sharon, Chief Examiner or not...

How do you calculate your

Visitor — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:59:26 +0000

How do you calculate your 'guru ranking?'?

And is anyone surprised that Sharon Taylor's ranking has plummeted (on whatever guru ranking basis) as the details of the v3 exams came out?

COBIT Skeptic

Visitor — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:40:53 +0000

Dear IT Skeptic - Great research project. The web is quite incredible. Web 1 or 2 or 3. Kind of like ITIL. My colleague Jatin in Delhi just created the first draft of the ITpreneurs Forum today (http://forum.itpreneurs.com), and it is already snowballing. In any case, would be happy to get your input into the ITpreneur Forum.

Regarding your research project, according to my guru ranking, you are the #2 guru in the ITIL thought leader league, behind Brian Johnson but just ahead of Sharon Taylor, who's popularity amazingly dropped by 20% in the last few weeks.

The Cobit Skeptic with a small obi

the democratic power of Web 2.0

skeptic — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:13:50 +0000

Oh, one more thing a conversation just reminded me of.

My personal interest on the internet is social computing or Web 2.0. This blog has made me intrigued by the democratic power of Web 2.0 and I have already served notice that I intend to explore that power. You can see the first rumblings on this blog already...