Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate
This is the “tastes great, less filling” debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking [...]
“The face of the Smart Grid will be paper!”
Photo credit Tom Raftery We had a briefing from a company called Opower the other day. We take lots of briefings but this one struck a different chord straight away when Ogi Kavazovic, Opower’s Sr. Director of Marketing and Strategy who was giving the briefing, said Opower is “one of the few new companies in [...]
IBM and Ariba Ink Partnership for LotusLive — A New Level of Network Collaboration
This morning, Ariba and IBM announced a partnership to integrate LotusLive into Ariba Discovery, Ariba’s free supplier discovery tool (and supplier directory / marketing / lead generation service). While on the surface, this relationship has all the makings of a Barney deal — for example, why isn’t there a bigger collaboration involving other IBM groups, [...]
Best Buy Smarter than the Apple Store
“There is an App for that” – is the mantra nowadays, and I really hoped for one, to solve the major task of telling me where I can buy an iPad. Anywhere, in any physical store along my long drive from San Francisco to Pleasanton. In the real-time, always-on age it should not be a [...]
Enter NetSuite – the new admiral of BPaaS?
Hot on the heels of its recent alliance annoucement with Genpact, we caught up with NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson to get his take on Business Process Outsourcing delivery, and how he intends to leverage that channel to oust incumbent ERP platforms from midmarket businesses with his cloud computing business management software suite.
Genpact: Procurement BPO Brains and Brawn (Part 1)
I had the chance to attend Genpact’s industry analyst day last week in Boston. During the meeting, which didn’t focus on procurement or supply chain exclusively but rather broader BPO, I was stricken by the frequency with which the management team continued to refer back to Spend Management, supply management topics and procurement case examples [...]
