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IPad, Mercantilism and the Chinese Plantation
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald This is not a post about CRM. If you could apply Fitzgerald’s definition of a first-rate intelligence to a thing or group endeavor—always a dubious [...]
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IBM Lotusphere 2012: The Old Lotus Has Wilted
+1 for Social Business. IBM is in. Whole hog. 6000+ faithful Lotus attendees and 100s of Lotus Partners got fed IBM’s ebusiness equivalent play for the 21st century. Simply put, that they are betting their entire portfolio of collaboration solutions, both old and new on Social Business. One fat caveat before I put my thoughts here. [...]
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Blog Carnival: The ROI of Social Media is The CRV of Revenue Impact
This post is part of the Social ROI Blog Carnival at Think Customers: the 1to1 Media blog. Visit the blog carnival post “Calculating the ROI of Social Media” to check out the full lists of posts from numerous well-known social media thought leaders. ROI = Social Media CRV There have been an amazing number of [...]
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New Research: Stop Waiting for a Supplier Network Revolution — P2P, Supplier Management and Beyond
Spend Matters is excited to announce the publication of our latest Perspective: Getting Past the Existential Connectivity Funk: Stop Waiting for the Supplier Network Revolution. Here at Spend Matters, most of our research titles are q…
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Good On You
My Aussie friends have an interesting saying that seems part complement and part benediction. Good on you. They pronounce it with an accent on the second word so that the phrase becomes a single word in the mouth, more like goo-don you. At any rate, good on you. Last week’s smack down of the PIPA [...]
Basware Acquires First Businesspost: Supplier Network Consolidation Continues
Last week, Basware announced it had acquired First Businesspost, GmbH (1stbp) , a German e-invoicing supplier network operator and software provider. Peter Smith initially covered the news over on Spend Matters UK/Europe, including cal…
Zach Nelson: A Decade in the Clouds
Zach Nelson is a really interesting tech executive. He has a wide rolodex (over 20 pages in my last book, The New Polymath came from interviews with Zach and several others he introduced me to), diverse interests (numerous relationships with the Oakland Athletics baseball team, part owner of the Omaha Nighthawks football team, golfer), and [...]
Goodbye Kodak, Hello FujiFilm
After 131 years great American photographic icon, Eastman Kodak, filed for bankruptcy while Japanese FujiFilm rises toward greatness. There is a lesson in here.
Big Data Predictions for 2012
Over the last several years, the desire to understand the surging rivers of digital data forming all around us has led inexorably towards something more meaningful than simple analysis. The rise of consumer analytics, and by that I mean analytics tools that literally anybody could and would use, could be arguably said to have begun
Apple and US labor
Steve Jobs supposedly told President Obama ““Those (iPhone) jobs aren’t coming back,” according to this article in the New York Times. Apple’s labor in China is also showing up in much hand-wringing in the Presidential race. Let’s explore a few other dimensions of the issue: The Chinese labor is a small part of the iPhone [...]
CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners – The Marketing Mavens
Last year saw a major explosion of interest in marketing automation a.k.a. revenue performance management and social marketing in particular. What makes this interesting is that we also saw the first clumsy attempts from a strategic standpoint to alig…
A Simplified Purchase-to-Pay Maturity Model: A Short Rant and Context (Before the Good Stuff)
As a former consultant, I’ve spent more than my fair share of time coming up with maturity models for this and that. I’ve found over the years that in many functional areas as well as the technologies that support them, the nuance between one step and another in a various maturity framework might seem small, [...]
Reflections On A Long Career — Part I
“If I could turn back time” I’m a year older than Cher, and we would both “turn back time” if we could. Who wouldn’t? We also share having had a very long career — if nothing else — and mine is still in high gear. But it’s about what it takes to develop and sustain a long [...]
The cloud is forked
Enterprises are adopting two types of cloud. One is less risky but inherently flawed. The other offers greater rewards but very few so far have succeeded with it
What the passing of SOPA could mean for your business
Click here to listen to Friday’s excellent web-discussion involving HfS Research’s own (and definitely not SOPA-rific) Jim Slaby and Terametric’s tera-fic Chris Selland. And for those of you who can’t be bothered, here were the main points of note: * SOPA/PIPA have worthy anti-piracy goals, but are highly problematic in technological, political, legal, and commercial terms. They [...]
It’s just getting started
I had a great time on yesterday’s Focus.com SOPA Roundtable and was honored to be asked to participate. While we took a bit of time to celebrate the fact that the effective death of the current SOPA & PIPA bills is a clear victory for those of us who opposed them, the panel was also [...]
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- Lotusphere 2012
- CRM Watchlist 2012 Winners – The Generalists
- CIO view: Three truths that bridge the great divide
- SAP buys Datango, and the Race to (Finally) Give End User Training its Due Begins
- News Analysis: Tidemark Gains $24M in Series C Funding, Redpoint Ventures Leads Round
- Sal’s six stages of sourcing: BPO’s Generations
