Device Ubiquity at Work and Play: Are We Ready?
Device ubiquity across home and work is the new item on the CIO’s to do list. Interesting stat in The Telegraph about how employees are more productive if they use their own gadgets: According to a YouGov survey, businesses who let employees use their own technology see productivity increases of up to 30 per cent. [...]
Free Speech and the Internet
I’m a tech analyst and blogger, not a political commentator, so I usually keep my own political beliefs and agenda to myself. The events of the last week though, have really set me on edge with respect to the Internet…
Social CRM in context: Expert panel discussion
At last week’s CRM Evolution 2011 conference, held in New York, I moderated a panel discussion called Disruption and the Lean, Mean CRM Machine. You can watch the entire panel by clicking the player embedded below. The panel covered key trends including cloud, mobile, social, and “big data” to explain how they fit within the context [...]
Connecting Agile Business with Social Business
When Jim Highsmith graciously invited me to give the opening keynote at the inaugural Agile Executive Forum in Salt Lake City this week, I had to really sit down and think about what I’ve been working on the last few years, namely social business, as compared the conference theme, agility and business. While agile methods [...]
The enterprise opportunity of Big Data: Closing the "clue gap"
As accumulated information has become a top-line asset in large companies, the ability to tap into it and release value from it is not growing to match in most traditional firms. Yet this information is currently growing exponentially and becoming a c…
Using Consumer Social Tools for Business: Facebook v. LinkedIn
Twice a year my group at IDC does a social business survey to look at adoption and use of social software in the enterprise. For this summer’s round we decided to take two “branches” in the questions, business use of enterprise social tools and enterprise use of consumer social tools. The first document from the [...]
My 2008 Ideas for LinkedIn Are Still Good: Maybe Google+ Will Do Them.
I got to thinking about LinkedIn this morning largely because I was annoyed with them. I received a request to link from someone this morning. The name was vaguely familiar–about the level of friend of a friend sort of familiar. So I went to their profile to try to figure out who it was and [...]
Google Going All In on Mobile
The tech media, and general media as well, is all a flutter about Google acquiring Motorola Mobility (note that this is one part of Motorola, the other being their Solutions group which is 2x the size of Mobility in terms of revenue). Henry Blodgett thinks it will end as a disaster for Google and my good [...]
Monday’s Musings: A Working Vendor Landscape For Social Business
Confusion Persists In The Social Business Market As with any new disruptive technology, the social business solution landscape faces a dynamic, confusing, and converging market. As vendors seek to grab mind share and market share, customers and prospects remain confused as to what are the right business problems to address with social business. However, rampant [...]
Commentary on Pacific Crest’s SaaS Surveys and other Relevant Thoughts
A few days ago I participated in Pacific Crest’s workshop for private SaaS companies. This workshop is being held every year as part of Pacific Crest’s technology conference. In addition to the spirited discussion among SaaS company executives and investors, during the workshop Pacific Crest’s Brendan Barnicle and David Spitz presented the results of two [...]
