The Cascading Power Of Institutional Innovation
For a long time, it is an almost universally held view that a very wide majority of established big companies are slow innovators – while these were very disciplined in their execution , their ability to keep making game changing innovations were suspect. The innovation ethos inside large enterprises remains a goal worthy of pursuit. [...]
Solar Highway
“Each 12-by-12-foot Solar Roadway panel would produce about 7,600 watt-hours a day, based on an average of four hours of sunlight. At that rate, a one-mile stretch of four-lane highway could power about 500 homes. “If we could ever replace a…
Consolidation in the Outsourcing and Consulting spaces
Image via Wikipedia Last week, I discussed the Booz & Co./A.T. Kearney merger that didn’t go through and why deals like that are sometimes problematic. This week, we learn that Hewitt is being acquired for $4.9 billion by AON. The Wall Street Journal reports that: – Deloitte LLP is looking for acquisitions – PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP [...]
Oracle Sets Sights on BI Leadership. Has it Picked the Right Target?
Oracle is not first in BI, and wants to change that – that was the clear message of a well executed, multi-site “real plus virtual” event with top executives showing off the result of a multi-year effort to rationalize and integrate a set of leading but overlapping components into a seamless suite. Oracle Business Intelligence [...]
My New MOO Cards
Those of you who have met me in person have probably seen my business cards: plain on the front, with the necessary information, and a Hugh MacLeod cartoon on the back: These StreetCards cards have served me well for a couple of years, but as my current stock declined, I thought it was time for [...]
How to Make Money in the Cloud: Microsoft, SAP, the Partner Dilemma and The Tools Solution
It’s cloud’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know clouds at all….. One of the primary devils in the details with cloud computing will always be found in the chase for margins, and this is becoming abundantly clear for Microsoft’s market-leading partner ecosystem, gathered this week in Washington, DC. for their Worldwide Partner Conference.
Metastorm New Releases: Collaborative Modeling with M3 and Smart Business Workspace Application Builder
Although we didn’t have a chance for a demo, I had a quick briefing with Greg Carter, Metastorm’s CTO, on the announcements that they made today. M3 Collaborative Modeling We discussed M3, their cloud-based collaborative process modeling tool. This is one of the first BPA/BPM offerings that I’ve seen on the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, [...]
Cisco Enters the E20 Fray – SCRM Next?
Interesting….very interesting. If you remember a couple of years ago, I did my Companies to Watch 2009 posts – and, if you remember (and I’m sure you don’t. Why would anyone but me remember? And I barely do), I included Cisco as a company to keep eyeballing. Here are some excerpts of what I said: [...]
Dell and Others: The Business Dilemma of Pushing Out Payment Terms (Part 1)
I’m sorry, but I could care less about the moral dilemma of pushing out payment terms, as many paint the payment term rationalization argument. I personally believe all that matters is the business dilemma of whether or not such logic makes sense based on the balancing act of improving working capital and keeping your suppliers [...]
Could Ariba Discovery Finally Scale a Challenging Business Model? (Part 2)
In the first post in this series looking at Ariba Discovery, I provided a high-level overview of what the Discovery marketplace solution provides. In this post, I’ll share some details about the traction Ariba is receiving with the solution. And in the final post coming up, I’ll provide a walkthrough of the application and how [...]
