The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Model – Part IV – Model and Optimize
This is the fourth in a four part series on the Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Model. Part I covered the strategize and prioritize phase, Part II covered the plan and execute phase , and Part III covered the monitor and analyze phase. In the model and optimize phase of the Performance Management Lifecycle, we [...]
News Analysis: Siperian Acquisition Vaults Informatica Into An MDM Leadership Position
Informatica Enters The Battle For Master Data Management Dominance As with any best of breed market, only a few will survive and even fewer will succeed. Despite a leading offering, Siperian’s faced a rocky financial situation over the past 12 months. Many suitors pursued Siperian but in the end Informatica’s $130M acquisition of Siperian took [...]
Exploring Why Social Business Will Drive 21st Century Enterprises
Below is an new core visual — which is itself a work-in-progress — for thinking about social business models. It’s part an ongoing strategic line of thinking that I’ve been developing lately to do some direction finding on strategic uses of social computing. It’s also part of a new book contribution that I completed today [...]
When Your Suppliers Swim in (Loan) Shark-Infested Financing Waters
When I first started researching and covering procurement, it was rare to find an article in a popular newspaper or magazine about the area. But now, it seems to happen at least once a week. Just this weekend, The New York Times published a highly in…
Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant
Image via CrunchBase Listen to my conversation with Rick Nucci, chief technology officer of Boomi, a SaaS integration vendor, who we last interviewed here in April 2009 on the topic of SaaS Integration, Simpler through Sharing. In this podcast, learn why multi-tenancy is such a crucial ingredient for software-as-a-service and other cloud services, and find [...]
Call for IT Devil’s Triangle research
A research proposal to improve the IT Devil’s Triangle by quantifying responsibility for failure or success.
Don’t Lose Yards in the E20 Super Bowl
It’s that time of year again and everyone in the USA has Super Bowl Sunday on their minds. It occurred to me that common penalties in American football have a lot in common with penalties for rolling out an Enterprise 2.0 strategy and deployment.
Here’s a quick chalk talk for e20 evangelists everywhere who are trying [...]
Warm up with SocialFresh Tampa!
What could possibly be better than a trip to Tampa in February? How about a trip to Tampa in February to listen and learn from some of the leading thinkers and (perhaps more importantly) doers on the social web? SocialFresh Tampa takes place on February 8th, and amazing, top-notch speakers like Best Buy’s John Bernier, [...]
Filling a Research Void: Spend Matters Compass (Part 2)
Last week, I introduced Spend Matters readers to Spend Matters Compass, a new research offering that we’re launching on the site later today. One of the major purposes behind Spend Matters Compass, besides providing deeper research and analysis for f…
