Rant: E-Invoicing Claims vs. Supplier Reality (Part 1)
As I’ve dug further and further into marketing materials published by various vendors and analysts extolling the benefits of E-invoicing for suppliers, I’ve become less and less convinced that the benefits for buyers and suppliers…
A Tale of Two Cities, Part II: Radian6′s Coming Out…Again Party
If I look back on the emergence of the social media market (note I’m not saying Social CRM at this juncture, though we’ll get back to it soon), I’d be happy to call Radian6, not the market creator, but the market maker. The popularity of social media technology aimed at serious business users (serious in [...]
ERP, 20 years ago: the move to go global
ERP in 1991 was a markedly different world than it is today. The sector was undergoing a change that would usher in a new group of software market leaders and send another group to the scrap heap. The shift at that time was to move from green-screen to Unix/Client Server solutions and some newcomers, like [...]
Apple’s Crazy Ecosystem and the Prospects for an Amazon Pad
I read with interest Marco Arment’s speculation about an iPad competitor potentially being in the relatively near-term offing by Amazon: I’d bet on Amazon releasing a true tablet, competing more directly with the iPad than the Kindle currently does, in the possibly near future. While I don’t doubt Amazon could launch a tablet and very [...]
Innovation and transformation: Matching communication to culture
Innovation in the enterprise is difficult at best, and seemingly impossible most of the time. In this excellent video, inventor Steven Sasson, who developed the first digital camera for Kodak, discusses culture and communication as requirements for innovation. Although he presents a brilliantly simple synopsis of the problem and solution, few people possess the inter-personal [...]
Only Because Its So Cool.Corning A Day Made of Glass
I was meandering through web superstar Thomas Vander Wal’s blog of meanderings and found this Corning Glass 5 minutes that is just so cool that I need to show you. Its called “A Day Made of Glass” and what’s remarkable is that all this glass either exists or soon will. No real CRM message though [...]
