Transparency Will Save Us
Despite all that is wrong with today’s society – and some frightening historical parallels – I remain fundamentally an optimist.
Onward
2011. It could be the year life ends after “The Rock” impacts Portugal, or the year that IPv4 IP addresses are exhausted. Or it could be the year that Social CRM goes mainstream. Maybe even the year that Blue Waters – the closest living relative to SkyNet – comes online. In reality, it is another [...]
Looking for Investment Management Tools
I have been looking for any personal finance software that can help keep track of my investments. So far, I have come up with zip. Maybe someone else has had a better experience. Here is what I am looking for: Syncs transactions with brokerage accounts. Allows looking at performance on a consolidated basis across accounts. [...]
Helping Managers Visualize the Right Decisions
Recently, our family took a vacation and benefited from all kinds of information available for spur of the moment decisions from my iPad. The silly thing was constantly out and being consulted for something, and it made a real difference to our trip. I have no doubt that Graphic for Visualizing Your Competition (HT to [...]
The CRM Watchlist Part II: The Usual Suspects
I have to imagine that Kevin Spacey is getting sick and tired of the use of his movie’s title for pretty much everything related to a regular event. So this “Sigh” is for him. Sigh. In the first CRM Watchlist 2011 (long) post I covered the Big 4. In round 2, we’re going to look [...]
What’s With These Microsoft Patent Trolls?
Paul Allen and Nathan Myhrvold: what’s with these ex-Microsofties now turned Patent Trolls? Was there something in the water at Microsoft or what? The Trolls that Stole Innovation’s Christmas I’m reading lately about Allen’s efforts to bring to bear a portfolio of patents filed by Interval Research, a company he founded once upon a time. Myhrvold [...]
Ariba, Stock Run Ups and Equity Research
I continue to be surprised at the run-up in certain tech stocks, driven in part by many analyst reports. This suggest to me that at least some of the so-called experts covering various markets really don’t have much knowledge of t…
The Cloud and Infrastructure Management Services
Infrastructure Management Services or IMS is one of the fastest growing services for IT Services companies. But computing infrastructure is what the Cloud will impact first and foremost. Is the fast growing IMS in jeopardy, then? There are good reasons why the Cloud is a big trend. Enterprise IT loves the pay per use, “utility” [...]
The Cloud & Enterprises
This is in continuation of the previous note:Thomas Friedman makes the case that Value creation is becoming so complex that no single firm can master it without closely collaborating with a wide set of partners. John Hagel brings this up :” We are s…
Next year is a strategic opportunity
Recessions are always a good time to rebuild your competitive infrastructure and the slow growth/recession of the last couple of years has been no exception. On the stock market, the technology sector seems to be doing quite well. After bottoming in the middle of the summer the software companies especially seem to be rebounding. Microsoft, [...]
