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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.

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Jun 27
2008

The Brisbane Line

Posted by peter.carr in queensland, Pipe Networks, NBN, internet, innovation, federal, brisbane, bligh, Bjelke-Petersen, Bevan Slattery, AIIA

At the annual Queensland Premier’s AIIA Luncheon in Brisbane yesterday Premier Anna Bligh discussed how the State had just completed its submission to the Broadband Advisory Committee in Canberra. Her announcement was that the Queensland Government would dip into its annual ~$180million telecommunications spend (across all government departments and agencies) to fund the missing connections to 2% of the Queensland population in the fibre-to-the-node national broadband network.

While there were conditions, and while ensuring connections for Queensland’s share of that national 2% deficit may seem trivial in "the grand scheme" (approximately 85,000 people), it was a statement reminiscent of a state still brooding and reawakening from past injustices dolled out by the Federal government.

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Jun 05
2008

The Year of IT Heroes and Clive Finkelstein

Posted by sam.higgins in Rational, Pearcey Awards, microsoft, IBM, Danny Sabbah, Clive Finkelstein

This week as Peter slaved away in the Longhaus Research Centre on a major client project I was lucky enough to be the only Asia Pacific Analyst in attendance at the IBM Rational Software Development Conference 2008 (RSDC2008). During the event held in Orlando (Florida) I had the privilege of spending time with a number of senior IBM Executives, including the head of Rational Danny Sabbah along with Scott Hebner, Martin Nally and more. I was also able to hear first hand from the father of UML, Mr Grady Booch - not once but on three occasions about his perspectives on the future of software (see http://www.booch.com/architecture/blog.jsp). The schedule was brutal, but it was worth the trip...

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