Storming the Castle Chapter 2: How I Gave Up Finger Painting and Decided to Develop a Category.
Folks here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2. Enjoy. Comments as always are welcome. Arts and Crafts Time Is Over Well that’s what you’re CMO should be saying. Look, time and time again, marketing has been relegated to the tail end…
The Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, [...]
A Good Sign: Ariba’s Earnings Suggest That Deals are Getting Done (Part 1)
A couple weeks back, I wrote a post that offered up three things to expect from Ariba’s earnings announcement later in the month. Yesterday, Ariba announced earnings in a report that proved once and for all that the largest best-of-breed vendor in the procurement space can achieve profitability and continued SaaS revenue and customer growth. [...]
Hacking UK Politics with IBM Middleware: open data, mashups, and uh… WebSphere
One of my favourite app of recent times is Ben Marsh’s UKSnow, which uses people as sensors, and twitter as the collection mechanism – to track and visualise snowfall across the UK. So it was cool to come across a similar app of that tracks people’s likely voting preferences in the UK general election. Step [...]
In Search Of HRM/HRMDS/HR Tech “Best” Practices: Istanbul To Venice
Venice Lingers In The Mind Like A Love Song Ron and I will be traveling from 4/30 through 5/17/10 from Istanbul to Venice, soaking up “best” practices in HRM, the HRM delivery system and HR technology every step of the way. I’ll be doing some tweeting from “the road,” @InFullBloomUS, but I may not have [...]
Friday Rant: Oracle Ups Their Procurement Game
Earlier this week, I had the chance to meet with a number of Oracle team members at all levels of their solution organization, within procurement and Spend Management. Some of these personalities I’ve known for a decade, including David Hope-Ross, who used to sit in my position when I was briefing him as a Gartner [...]
SimplyBox 2.0 Simplifies Enterprse 2.0 Collaboration
Collaboration Remains Elusive Across Applications And Enterprises Organizations seeking the benefits of collaboration and rapid knowledge sharing in Enterprise 2.0 (E2.0) solutions face several key challenges in delivering a consistent enterprise solution: Consistent tool across multiple applications and environments. Organizations want one tool to collaborate regardless of the application they are using. Today, organizations often [...]
Storming the Castle: Chapter 1
Folks… here’s an excerpt of Chapter 1 of my eBook, Storming the Castle: Developing a Go-to-Market Strategy That Enthralls, Intoxicates and Drives Growth. Many organizations think of markets as castles — surrounded by difficult to cross moats, filled with hostiles, their customers and prospects and all resulting in a lot of casualties when these organizations [...]
HP buys Palm: Damn, That’s a Pretty Snug Fit
When I saw a tweet last night about HP agreeing to acquire Palm I immediately began spinning up scenarios. After about five minutes trying to work out some holes in the idea I was surprised by just how good the fit potentially is, even in areas that might at first glance be a problem.
HP has [...]
Microsoft Convergence 2010. Finally Getting Rid of the But….?
A couple of months ago, I was asked by Microsoft to help them (as a consultant) try to work on their Social CRM program. That included looking at products, messaging and doing some thought leadership stuff. I’m in the midst of that now and thus, have been able to get a deep and advanced look [...]
