Lawson & Issues on two fronts: Earnings and Icahn
Lawson’s earnings today and the position that Carl Icahn has accumulated in Lawson Software make for an interesting time for software buyers. How might Lawson react?
Thoughts on Big Data
Earlier in the year I wrote about areas of investment interest for 2010 and included Big Data aggregation, management, and data mining/processing. A couple of weeks ago I had attended Gigaom’s Structure 2010, a conference devoted to big data. As is also noted by Derrick Harris here there is a growing market of vendors that [...]
Finally, A Choice Modeling Primer
I bet you didn’t know that Choice Modeling was initially a psychological theory on how people choose foods they want to eat. I bet you didn’t know that economists picked it up to predict the choices consumers would make for…
Service providers siloed by vertical industry are stifling innovation with clients
To win more business, outsourcing service providers must innovate by creating and unleashing a multi-client collaborative model that isn’t restricting their clients to their industry vertical silos. HfS research reveals clients’ desire to collabora…
Marketing Automation Consolidation?
Many VC’s and other practitioners of the Art of Startup view consolidation as a normal part of the evolution of a market. At first there are lots of companies founded in a space and lots of hype. Over time, a handful emerge as leaders. Once the handful is obviously head and shoulders above the rest, [...]
iPad Revisited
Image via Wikipedia I’m ready to concede that my prediction that the iPad would be a dud is flat out wrong. I will, however, couch my concession with the observation the iPad has, at least not yet, fundamentally changed the way we use the Web but rather it has added a very powerful new way [...]
Is SaaS Dead? No. Neither is Debate.
We’ve had email dead, resumes dead, wikis dead themes, now it’s apparently time for the SaaS is Dead meme, thanks to a recently published Gartner report. My favorite quote from the report: SaaS is not a panacea, and companies need to evaluate and understand the trade-offs that SaaS presents Indeed. Here’s another quote from Gartner [...]
Foxconn: An Outsourcer Takes to Outsourcing — Worker Dorms
If we were the Academy and we could grant an Oscar for the greatest “ironic production” of the year, the drama of Foxconn would be sure to win our favor with this headline from the NYT. Perhaps the story itself is not all that surprising. Foxconn, the giant contract manufacturer responsible for all those Apple [...]
What Works in Social Business
At our recent Social Business Summit 2010 in Austin, I gave a presentation about the state of Social Business Strategies in 2010, and more importantly what is working and why. The 56 slides are included below, in the event that you weren’t able to attend the summit. They cover topics such as social business benefits, [...]
Three Views: Looking Forward and Looking Back in Procurement BPO (Part 2)
In the first installment of this series, I shared perspectives from Everest Research (courtesy of Supply and Demand Chain Executive) and Horses for Sources on the emerging procurement BPO market. Now, here at Spend Matters we won’t claim to know as much as Everest does about broader adoption trends in overall F&A BPO (let alone [...]
