The trouble with our increasing clock speed
Remember GATO, the submarine game? It assumed you had a 4.77MHz 8088 processor, because that’s what every IBM PC in the world had. It ran as fast as it could, and it was the right speed. Then turbo PC’s came out, and the 286 AT, and then the 386. And GATO sucked on those computers—it [...]
My Mother Hates My Marketing
“You never write! You never call” is the typical refrain I hear from my mother once I finally do write or pick up the phone. Too little, too late I guess. Or I hear, “How come you don’t help me when I need it rather than when its convenient?” is another Mom fav. … now swap [...]
Rank
The CRM world has been atwitter, to borrow a phrase, ever since Gartner released its CRM market size report on April18. Since I am not rich, I do not own a copy of the document but the table of contents provides some very interesting fodder. The top five, in order, are Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft [...]
IT’s Ethical Dilemma
It hit me last week while attending Oracle’s Analyst World briefing. We convened in a conference center on the Oracle campus in Redwood Shores to learn about Oracle’s latest developments in hardware and software and to be briefed on the company’s future roadmap. How extensive was it? Let’s just say that my brain hurt when [...]
Reprise: How Customers Think
10 years ago, Gerald Zaltman, wrote a book that fundamentally altered the way I view markets and the consumers that inhabit them — How Customers Think. The book lays some foundational notions for those of us that wish to pursue Neuro- and content- marketing. Among them include: Most of the thoughts that influence a consumer’s [...]
Innovate in four short steps
Innovation: “Make changes in something established, esp. by introducing new methods, ideas, products or technology” Everything we do is based on assumptions, most of which are never questioned. That’s how we’re stuck with bad ways and mediocre products, and that’s an opportunity: 1. Make a list of things we do and take for granted. [...]
Painting And HR Technology — Yes, There’s A Connection
Wish This Were One Of Mine! One of my goals for 2013 is to spend more time painting, particularly illustrated journaling. The particular techniques of interest are to do quick, annotated line drawings and/or watercolor sketches of whatever takes my fancy as we travel/play/go boating/whatever within an easily portable bound journal. I also want to [...]
CxO Talk: Trust, engagement, and influence for the CIO
Every week, I host CxO Talk with friend and colleague Vala Afshar. Episode 8 is a conversation with author and entrepreneur, Mark Fidelman, who is an expert on how companies can use social media to boost relationships with buyers. The entire video conversation is embedded at the bottom of this post. The conversation got me [...]
So if the rockstars have gone, what’s left in the analyst industry?
As we revealed last week, most of the big analyst personalities have seemingly fled the analyst industry… many for the riches on offer from their vendor clients, clearly seeing more ROI from employing them, as opposed to purchasing their firm’s services. However, this hasn’t prevented the remaining legacy purveyors of analyst services from making a living. So [...]
Is the day of the rock star analyst officially over?
There’s been a lot of backchannel lately regarding high profile analyst departures to vendor organizations, with Thomas Otter, Gartner’s hugely popular VP for Human Capital Management, hopping to SAP’s recent acquisition, SuccessFactors.
