Just when you thought this week’s New York event was cancelled… Rocket-fuel Frank saves the day
It’s been quite a few days in the world of New York outsourcing events… firstly, the Global Sourcing Forum was cancelled over the weekend when the organizer had some sort of to-do with the Marriott hotel venue
The Leading Fill in the Blank
Perhaps no phrase in modern marketing communications is more used and more maligned at the same time than “the leading company in insert=market-here”. Everyone uses it and everyone snickers at it… so why? I was thinking about this the other day as I was writing some draft copy for a marcom piece and it struck [...]
News Analysis: Oracle and IBM Partner On Java
Collaboration Puts Java In A Safe Place On October 11th, 2010, both Oracle and IBM announced an alliance to collaborate on the future development of Java. A quick assessment shows that: Oracle and IBM intend to drive Java innovations. Oracle initiated a call to IBM to discuss collaboration efforts around Java. As a result, Oracle [...]
Organic Business Networks
I was having a conversation the other day with a colleague about trends that are impacting and driving change in businesses and as often happens lately we ended up on the subject of business networks. When discussing new concepts we have no choice but to apply words that have existing, accepted meanings, even if those [...]
Network Adoption from Oxford University
There’s news coming out of the Said Business School of Oxford University about a study of product adoption with Facebook. The research is said to document a herding instinct that can turn on and off. The research was conducted using 2007 data from Facebook users adoption of Facebook Apps for their Facebook pages. Unfortunately, the [...]
Up in the air with Ritesh Idnani… Part I
Several people at Infosys have told me that noone spends more time traveling across the globe than the COO for their BPO business… Ritesh Idnani. So when we teed up an interview with him, I asked him how many airmiles he has racked up, and his respo…
GroundWork 6.3 – Brief Note
A new release from GroundWork and an update on their low-priced packaging, Quickstart.
Will Social Media Converge With Procurement and Supply Chain Applications? (Part 2)
In the first part of this post, I linked to a column that examined how social media is already starting to transform aspects of HR applications at the core, not at the periphery. I firmly believe that social media and social inter…
#HRTechC2011 Prep: 65th Birthday Professional Resolutions
Birthday Girl Circa 2000 Missing #HRTechConf this year meant, even more than the loss of professional learning/networking/vendor briefing/audience interaction/etc., not seeing good friends. Since many of my closest friends began as professional colleagues — and that process continues – I really missed our annual “reunion.” But I truly was where I needed to be, supporting [...]
Bristlecone and Hubwoo — Two SAP Ecosystem Rivals Decide to Work Together (Part 2)
In the first post in this series examining the recently announced partnership between Bristlecone and Hubwoo, I explored a number of background elements that led to the partnership as well as some of its highlights. In today’s ins…
