Jive: Keepin’ it Real
You know that feeling when you have to take a random trip to the mall and when you get there, the entire mall and every retail establishment has been magically transformed for the holiday shopping season? Wow. It’s not even close to Thanksgiving, you think… But sure enough, you find yourself a little excited, a [...]
Hotel Capitalizes on Bay Bridge Closure – on Twitter, Where Else?
The above tweet is from a San Francisco hotel, capitalizing on the “opportunity” created by the Bay Bridge closure. Whoever said Twitter was not for business? Related (and happier) post: Another Enterprise Web 2.0 “WOW” Experience Related articles by Zemanta Why The SF Bridge Broke (gizmodo.com.au) San Francisco Bay Bridge Shut Down, TwitPic Captures Accident [...]
BPM Customer Panel #appianforum
The first day of Appian Forum ended with a panel of Appian customers – Archstone, AGF, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Mercer Outsourcing – hosted by Clay Richardson of Forrester. Clay started with a question about which BPM project to do first: instead of the old “start small, think big, act fast” mantra, many organizations are choosing [...]
Panjiva’s March to Provide Global Supply Insight Continues (Part 1)
I’ve got to hand it to Panjiva, a supply risk content clearinghouse that specializes in providing intelligence to companies sourcing from global suppliers. In its rather short life, Panjiva has not only succeeded in helping companies make sense of gl…
Personal Communities: fundamental changes in business
I couldn’t help but notice a link between two tweets that came in within a few seconds of each other. I don’t know the answers, but these are both awfully good questions.
dan_mcweeney Sales people used to be the networks, leads. Now everyone has a community ( or should ) how does that change your business? [...]
Benenden Healthcare Society BPM case study #appianforum
Ian Grant of Benenden Healthcare Society, a UK not-for-profit, user-pay healthcare provider with almost a million members. They had a need to improve their business agility, and identified that they needed a new case management system as well as better auditability of the decisions made within processes. They reengineered their processes first, then had their [...]
Lean Process Improvement Revisited #appianforum
As with Jim Sinur, my schedule is overlapping with that of Clay Richardson of Forrester several times this month. This morning, I heard some new material from Jim, but Clay had much the same presentation that I saw him give at the Forrester Business Technology Forum a couple of weeks ago so I don’t have [...]
Don’t Underestimate the Impact of BPM #appianforum
It’s the third time this month that I’ve been at a conference with Jim Sinur of Gartner, and he’s giving the opening keynote here at Appian’s user conference. Although a lot of the local people are held up due to weather and traffic today, they’re expecting over 300 people here: a huge success given the [...]
An Oracle of Spend Classification or Just Another Spend Tool? (Part 1)
Earlier in the month, I noted in a post that Oracle unveiled a new spend classification capability at Open World. In announcing the features of the solution, Oracle clearly took a few cards from Zycus, Spend Radar, Ariba, Emptoris, BravoSolution and …
