Best Practices: Applying The Seven Deadly Sins To Successful Gamification
The Seven Deadly Sins Draws On The Dark Arts Conversations with game designers and gamification experts over the past month highlight how important design should appeal to the human spirit. Intrigue, reward, status, community, and challenge drive 5 key areas of engagement. However, some of the masters of gamfication have revealed some dark arts that [...]
Digital Payments Going Viral
Offering the potential to transform how businesses bill and collect payments, three new digital payment mechanisms look set to open up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs, not only in digital content and services but also in new smartphone based s…
Tablets & Laptops – Consumption, Creation & the Replacement Cycle
Just got back from a few very refreshing days off in Phoenix – with my son – and my Apple ($AAPL) iPad – but sans laptop. Ironically, I was asked to do a press call with Crains’ yestrday discussing the potential for business apps on the iPad. Since I was a firsthand case study, I [...]
SaaS Consulting: Ups and Downs
Fellow enterprise irregular and friend Vinnie Mirchandani wrote recently about the cost of travel for system integration or implementation work. Having spent 9 years as an Oracle consulting and road warrior I have a lot of experience with the fatigue, health issues and project timeline issues related to consultant travel. One of the reasons we [...]
Spanning Backup Now Backing Up Over 1 Billion Google Apps Objects
As of this morning, Spanning Backup has backed up more than 1,000,000,000 calendar events, contacts, and docs for Google Apps users. That’s a billion fewer things our users have to worry about. But what about people who don’t yet back up their Google Apps data? The questions they most often ask are, “Do I really [...]
McKinsey: Getting the Supply Chain of the Future Partially Right (Part 1)
If you’re curious about general high level trends and forecasts in the supply chain that are likely to impact specific procurement and supplier management strategies, it’s worth checking out a recent McKinsey Quarterly article (re…
Who cares about the soft stuff… when everyone’s ready for outsourcing change
Outsourcing change is revolutionary—the world order changes. At the minimum, outsourcing introduces new rules and tools, different outcomes, changes careers, moves work offshore, requires new skills—all in the effort to realize a business case with…
