The OEMing of SaaS: build or buy?
Most of the discussion about SaaS in the enterprise talks about the consumption of SaaS applications by enterprise users. But there’s another side of the coin, in which enterprises themselves deliver applications to their customers, partners or subsidiaries. Online banking, for example, which pretty much all of us use to manage our money these days, [...]
The Shift from Creating to Liking
The NYTimes came out with a story outlining how younger generations are moving away from blogging to social networks such as Twitter. The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those [...]
SAP Sales OnDemand: Got It, Got It, Need It?
For an inconceivably long time, I have been a fan of SAP’s without being anywhere close to a fan of their on demand a.k.a. SaaS a.k.a. sorta cloud, efforts. In fact, if you remember I ripped Business By Design a new one even as recently as Sapphire 2010 last May. But, at an invite-only Influencers Day [...]
Social Media and Procurement: Get Ready for a Serious Shake Up (Part 2)
Click here for the first post in this series.
I previously shared a few observations from Alex Ranson, our trusty social media correspondent on Spend Matters UK/Europe, about why social media matters for procurement. Alex, who …
Google Under Siege?
Certainly a meme going around lately suggesting that Google ($GOOG) is under attack from all sides. Leigh Drogen’s (@ldrogen) tweet this morning led me to Justin Paterno’s (@zerobeta) post which both do a good job summarizing the issue. $GOOG is being attacked from every angle. When you sit back and ponder it, can you picture [...]
Entering Marketing’s Golden Age
There’s a great Churchill quote, which I think applies to our long sojourn in the valley of social networking: Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after they have exhausted all other possibilities. Social networking is important and will be a major part of our future but I can’t help but think [...]
Bottom of the Pyramid of Digital Media
If you read this blog regularly you should be used to my constant carping about the lack of imagination in the music industry due to which the price per song is stuck at about $1. While the music industry in the West and in Bollywood is doing its best ostrich imitation, in another product category [...]
On Productivity
“Productive effort, measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input” And I bet you that the next word that is popping up in your head now is efficiency: ”Achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense” All well and good and what managers are focused on every day at the office. And [...]
