Backdrop: The Travel Sourcing Opportunity — Skills, Technology and Clout (Part 2)
In the first post in this series, I set the stage for our 2011 coverage of the travel procurement market. And I also hopefully established myself as someone with a complete lack of travel specific procurement credentials (yet broa…
In 2011, mainstream means mobile
Instead of being the poor cousin, suddenly the mobile UI will be the bigger sibling that sets the standard for how other UIs behave, leaving desktop platforms looking more old-fashioned than ever, and setting new cultural challenges for enterprise application usage.
A new decade: From consumerization to commercialization of technology
“I would rather compete with Sony than compete in another product category with Microsoft.” Steve Jobs said that to Time magazine soon after launching the iPod in 2001. It signaled the start of a trend Gartner would later call “consumerization of technology,” or “the growing practice of introducing new technologies into consumer markets prior to [...]
