Google… The Worm Turns?
Google has been a remarkable company to watch over the years, operating as a pure product company that reflected Microsoft in it’s prime, which is just to say when Microsoft could make or break a new market by simply introducing a new product. Google also adopted Microsoft’s strategy for empowering product managers with great and [...]
Do You Need Enterprise-Envy?
As so often happens, a discussion of the Enterprise Irregulars group I belong to has prompted a post of my own. Every business needs to spend some time thinking about what kinds of customers it doesn’t want to attract. This kind of thinking is alien to most, but it is essential to successful sales and [...]
Going to the edge of Social Business
Dion Hinchcliffe and I were in New York this week and stopped by Stowe Boyd’s Social Business Edge conference. Much in the same spirit of our own Social Business Summit in Austin, this conference was a single day and densely packed with some of the best speakers I have heard in years. The speaking slots [...]
How business hoodwinks itself
When you create a new company you have an idea, some sketches, then you develop a product or a service while trying to understand your potential customers by listening and testing. Then the production/service org gets cranking, channels established and…
The Guardian: NoSQL EU. Don’t Melt The Database
What follows is something like a live blog, based on comments from Matthew Wall and Simon Willison from The Guardian the NoSQL EU conference in London today. Wall kicked off the talk with a question about NoSQL: is it a good name for the phenomenon? He says not really, pointing out absurdity of calling SQLite [...]
