Announcing Prizes for Winners of the 2.0 Prediction Market…
Last fall, we announced our 2.0 Adoption Index Prediction Market. The market is a partnership between the 2.0 Adoption Council and Crowdcast.* We are tapping into the knowledge of E2.0 experts and evangelists to crowdsource predictions and insights about the adoption of 2.0 technologies within organizations. This is addressing a need we’ve heard many times – that [...]
SaaS Accounting Gains: Now What Say You, McKinsey?
According to Goldman Sachs Accounting is now at the #3 spot in SaaS implementations, reports Dennis Howlett. Not a real surprise, certainly not to Dennis’s readers, or those who follow Ben’s Accounting 2.0 series. Still, seeing the numbers makes me feel good, given that I debated a short-sighted report by McKinsey a few years ago, [...]
Putting Collaboration in Context
It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks in the world of collaboration software, with major initiatives from two leading vendors at opposite ends of the market spectrum. At the heavyweight end of the enterprise market, SAP released into beta its 12sprints collaborative decision-making tool. From the high-volume end of the individual consumer market, Google unveiled [...]
Social CRM and enterprise business
Social business has important implications for the enterprise. This post contains an important video that explains why.
Making Social Media Work For Your Business: Radisson Blu Frankfurt
There’s a great social media story as follow-up to my post on Saturday about getting stuck overnight in Frankfurt but getting great customer service from everyone involved. First, I have to mention that as I left the Radisson Blu in Frankfurt, I complimented the three young staff members who were at the front desk on [...]
SuccessFactors Acquires Inform: What’s The Real Issue Here?
There’s been some terrific discussion in the blogosphere about SuccessFactor’s recent acquisition of Inform, and I won’t repeat here what Ventana Research, Knowledge Infusion OnDemand and others have had to say about what looks like a smart move for SuccessFactors and a potentially important contribution to HR’s ongoing quest for the “holy grail” of actionable [...]
2010 Prediction: Transparency Rules the Supplier Management Focus
Spend Matters believes that in 2010 transparency — not simply compliance management or supplier on-boarding — will begin to rule the supplier management focus. In recent years, many organizations have begun their supplier information management jou…
