Wikipedia’s Decline and the 7 Types of Human Motivation
There have been a lot of stories recently reporting on the slow decline of participation in Wikipedia. Most of the stories have come to the conclusion that people are just sort of not interested in helping anymore as there is an abundance of information available on all topics. The fun of building a global utility [...]
Socialtext Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy
Ridiculously easy group-forming matters because the desire to be part of a group that shares, cooperates, or acts in concert is a basic human instinct that has always been constrained by transaction costs. Now that group-forming has gone from hard…
The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts
Some of my email spam is actually quite entertaining, like this offer for a “research report”: The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts The Top 10 Questions The Care and Feeding of Industry Analysts Will Answer For You Include: 1. What are the ten deadly sins NOT to commit when working with an industry analyst [...]
SAP – The Message Back on Target
(Just a brief note. I’m writing this with a TERRIBLE cold and I don’t feel particularly sharp. In fact I feel about as sharp as a bar of soap – proof positive is this awful analogy). I’m not a Kremlin watcher when it comes to most large companies, though I do admit to an unhealthy [...]
Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant: Clarifying a Few Questions
On Tuesday, I got a number of questions from colleagues about Gartner’s Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant or “MarketScope”, as they’ve come to also call these types of 2/2 analyses. One question that kept coming up again and again was why Oracle was …
