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By Michael Krigsman on March 17, 2010
A new report by IT failures expert and author, Phil Simon, takes a deep analytical dive into a failure at a major hospital system. It is currently available for free download.
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged CIO issues, Cultural issues, Cutter Consortium, Governance, Health care, IT issues, project management
By James Governor on March 17, 2010
IBM this week clarified its plans to handhold enterprises into the cloud, working with Red Hat to bypass VMware with the announcement of Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud.
I have been talking for a while about what I call The VMware Pattern, in posts such as Amazon Web Services: an instance of [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, ibm, mercury, PayPal, Red Hat, RightScale, VMware
By Jason Wood on March 17, 2010
The markets are up. The media is happy. Economists are patting themselves on the back saying the “worst is over.” And certainly in many respects it FEELS that way, doesn’t it? And happily, as an investor, times are better than…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Age of Relativism, American, Drive, education, Initiative, New Jersey, Patriotism, Property tax, Public school, Saint Patrick's Day
By Phil Wainewright on March 15, 2010
Google last week brought the spotlight back onto on-demand application marketplaces with its launch of the Google Apps Marketplace. Until the search and online advertising giant waded in, the territory had been a quiet backwater, dominated for the past few years by Salesforce.com’s AppExchange. It’s hard now to credit just how much excitement surrounded the [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged AppExchange, collaboration, email, google, google apps, google apps marketplace, Identity, killer app, Platform as a service, salesforce.com
By Sandy Kemsley on March 15, 2010
A couple of months back, there was a private discussion amongst the Enterprise Irregulars about who Salesforce.com was going to buy next, and there was a thought in the back of my mind that it might be a BPM vendor. Since that time, two BPM vendors have been acquired, but not by Salesforce: instead, they [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged BPM, Cloud, Software design
By Jason Busch on March 15, 2010
Earlier today, Oracle announced the formal launch of its On Demand suite of procurement products. These solutions, which Oracle labels as Oracle Procurement On Demand should be no surprise to Spend Matters readers (check our recent coverage here and…
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged innovation, oracle, Oracle iProcurement, PeopleSoft, sap, supply risk
By Susan Scrupski on March 15, 2010
Enterprise 2.0 was launched in the spring of 2006 as a result of Andrew McAfee’s case study interviews in 2005 on Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment bank in London. The story unfolded after he and his team studied the work of J.P. Rangaswami, who was then Global CIO of the bank. It’s sometimes surprising to me [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2.0 Adoption Council, adoption, Andrew McAfee, case studies, Case study, Enterprise 2.0, Social Enterprise, Trends Research
By Paul Greenberg on March 15, 2010
Image credit: Inside Social
I ordered an iPad last Friday right after Apple finished updating their site so that I could. Just to set the record straight, I’m not a fanboy though I have 2 iMacs, an iPhone and a Macbook Pro 13″ with a solid state drive. But, then again, I’m writing this post on [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, Customer Collective, iPad, Marc Benioff, salesforce.com, sap, Social Media, sugarcrm, Uncategorized
By Jeff Nolan on March 12, 2010
I just spent a week and a half in southern China visiting a range of manufacturing facilities and meeting with senior executives, and the learnings were significant, some of which I want to share with you today. This is the kind of information that is really challenging to get from analysts and journalists simply because [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged China, Exchange rate, Hong Kong, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
By Ross Mayfield on March 11, 2010
I’m in Austin where we just announced a partnership with the Dachis Group at their Social Business Summit. Lee Bryant is talking about how to build more efficient and effective organizations. What follows is an impressionistic transcript. I’m somewhat of…
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Collective action, Dachis Group, Hanseatic League, Social network, socialtext
