Buying Influence
Read this and found it really provocative. Despite this data, many marketers are on a seemingly relentless quest to beef up their own social network profiles and reach users with lots of friends and followers. In the Vocus-Solis study, 57% of respondents said they’d be willing to pay for an influencer to help them “drive [...]
Android Phone Without Google Voice? Yes, But What a Deal! You Get What You Pay for @ Virgin Mobile.
News of Virgin Mobile starting to sell an Android phone is disruptive, to say the least. Not because of the phone – it’s a dinky little Samsung Intercept – but because of the plans. They are all contract-free, and start at $25. The basic level only gives you 300 minutes to talk, but it includes [...]
The Huffington Post Fails To Grok Enterprise Software
In the populist vein sweeping the land, the issue of Wall Street compensation is always a good fuel for the flame. The Huffington Post recently ran a post along those lines that has as its main proposition the notion that Larry Ellison is overpaid and should be canned by his board. It’s one of these [...]
Fire Larry Ellison?
This post appeared on HuffPo suggesting that Larry Ellison should be fired, along with the entire Oracle board of directors. Larry Ellison is definitely the best paid CEO of America: he pocketed $ 1.84 billion dollars over the last 10 years according to the Wall Street Journal. His shareholders lost 12 % over the same period. [...]
AppMatcher.com – Rackspace SaaS Summit
Rackspace got into the app store/marketplace space today with the launch of it’s AppMatcher service.
On HP hiring Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and the Ray Lane Manoeuvre
I am certainly not the first to comment on HP’s decision to hire Leo Apotheker as its new CEO, and nor will I be the last (our other coverage here) So what perspective can I bring that others might have missed? If nothing else I have met the guy, and I like him – he [...]
Forrester BP&AD Forum Keynote: The Empowered Future
I’m in DC at the Forrest Business Process and Application Delivery Forum – always a good conference in my experience – and Connie Moore opened the event with the morning keynote on business transformation and IT transformation. She showed some really great imagery about agility: a video clip of running water to represent where we [...]
BP CTO and innovative technology around the Gulf spill
One of the most enjoyable case studies I wrote for the book was about the BP CTO group. It is a remarkable band of 12 professionals (yes, just 12) that has over the last decade pioneered – typically years ahead of mainstream adoption -the application of innovative technologies such as sensory networks and predictive analytics [...]
The blog of a kind and wise man.
I’m very pleased to see that Les Hayman has a blog, and that he is rattling off posts with vim, vigour and consistency. If you are interested in HR, career and life advice from someone who has been there, done that, then Les is a must read. Les was on the the extended board at [...]
A Look Under the Sourcing Covers: Accenture Picks Up Ariba’s Sourcing Services Assets (Part 2)
In the first post in this series covering Accenture’s acquisition of Ariba’s sourcing services business (i.e., the legacy FreeMarkets asset), I took an Accenture point of view. In this post, I’ll look at the deal through the eyes …
