The CEO’s Biggest Product Launch is His Company’s Culture
By now you will have heard the news: Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook will take over, and Jobs will carry on as Chairman of the Board. Inevitably, the discussion about what this means for Apple going forward is underway. It’s clear that Jobs has been the creative leader of Apple, [...]
News Analysis: Bunchball Gamifies Salesforce.com And Delivers Simplified Applets
Two New Products Improve Entry Points for Gamification Adoption Bunchball, a leading gamification vendor in the Silicon Valley, is best known for its Nitro gamification platform which organizations use to implement game mechanics across social networks, mobile applications, and websites. Today the solution reaches more than 70 million unique users and creates 2.3 billion actions [...]
Looking Ahead: Today’s Disruptions, Tomorrow’s Enterprise
Today if you ask me what the most disruptive and impactful technology “pillars” are I’d answer much like you’d expect; cloud, mobile, social and big data. In fact I was on a panel at the CRM Evolution conference a couple of weeks ago discussing exactly this topic. If I dug a little deeper, which I [...]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendors Jump to the Fore #2B
Here’s two more CRM Idol Reviews. We are almost done with the competition’s Americas round. Semi-finalists will be named and interviewed in early September. Now up: SplendidCRM,and Cosential. An interesting twosome – in a nice way that is. SplendidCRM SplendidCRM was founded in 2005 by Paul Rony and a group of fellow engineers looking to [...]
CRM Idol
The CRM Idol competition starts this week. If you aren’t aware here’s the basic rundown. It’s the brainchild of Paul Greenberg who is no stranger to the speaking circuit and a believer in making CRM entertaining. Idol, as the name implies, is a competition focused on emerging companies and its purpose is to identify one [...]
CRM Idol 2011: The SMB Vendor Jump to the Fore #2A
More and more and more…CRM Idol reviews keep coming. Here are three more from the last few days of judging. Please feel free to comment here on them. This round, Relenta, RightAnswers and Connected. Here we go: Relenta Relenta is an interesting company, with a product that can stand on its own, but, as we [...]
