Sameer Patel
Partner at The Sovos Group, a management consulting and technology advisory firm that helps organizations improve employee, partner and customer performance with the effective use of enterprise social and collaborative approaches, and technology. Clients over the past 15 years included McKessonHBOC, WR Wrigley Jr. Co., CA, KPMG, Nike, Oracle, The Sabre Group, Grupo Televisa (Mx), and The World Bank. Sameer has been cited in publications such as CNBC Business, The New York Times, CIO.com and Forbes on the promise and pitfalls of collaboration, and trends in enterprise software. He blogs at Pretzel Logic.
BigData, Mobile and Cloud Convergence: The Elephants
Eric Norlin, organizer of Defrag, Blur and Glue Conferences and seed investor, has a good post up today about what enterprise development means in the age of big data, mobile and cloud and the coming age of convergence of these big innovation spurts. I really recommend that you take 3 minutes to read his post [...]
Synchronicity
Tom Friedman had a good article up in the Sunday Review Section of the Times in late December on the implications of “the merger of globalization and the Information Technology revolution”. The crux of his reasoning and conclusions lies in this quote: The days of leading countries or companies via a one-way conversation are over,” [...]
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[Video] What Social Business Really Entails.
Information Week contributing editor Lenny Liebmann and I had a chat at IBM’s Lotusphere 2012 / IBMConnect event in Orlando last week. Lenny wanted to dig deeper into Social Business and get into the ‘why’s’ and ‘how’s’. We talked about a decisive approach to connecting customers, employees and partners and covered a number of topics including: [...]
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. [...]
Work, Richly.
I’ve always been a bit of a closet branding nut with specific interest in tag lines. Something about meaningful one-liners that express the essence of an institution. How well they live up to it is another matter but there’s something about winnowing it all down to a single sentence that expresses your raison d’être. “Live [...]
Rypple and Salesforce.com: It’s about Identity.
Salesforce.com announced that it has acquired Toronto-based Rypple – a social performance management provider. Given my preference for fix-a-problem social software, I’ve always appreciated that Rypple injected the needed context to illustrate why collaborative approaches and in turn, social software mattered to core enterprise process. No head scratching on use cases when you saw the [...]
Why I’m Optimistic about 2012
TechCrunch quotes a warning of sorts by Venture Capitalist Josh Kopelman who basically says 2012 will be more like a correcting 2008, as opposed to a euphoric 2011. Lots of good for and against arguments on the VC investing front by the likes of Dave McClure and others in the comments on TC. Regardless of [...]
Marketing your Marketing
Chalk this up to another example of why Marketing STILL doesn’t get social. Social Times reports that the way to get more “Likes” on Facebook is to offer coupons to satiate the what’s-in-it-for-me hunger of an increasingly discriminating social networker. This might well be that moment in social media marketing history when we look back and say – “what [...]
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BIG Brands Collaborating to Accelerate Performance. [#e2conf Preview]
Seems like I just got off a plane from this summer’s Boston Enterprise 2.0 Conference. But here we are again — the Santa Clara edition of Enterprise 2.0 is around the corner, from the 14th — 17th of November. The event has a good keynote line up that includes the likes of Sandy Carter of [...]
TideMark: Bringing Collaborative Performance to an EPM Problem near you.
Lets cut to the chase: The business intelligence we rely on as enterprises to perform better can suck at times. I remember a famous dot com era business systems accomplishment that was touted up and down silicon valley. I paraphrase but it went something like this: “Cisco has the ability to do a virtual close on [...]
