Gamification, dashboards, search and enterprise failure
Ooh, I love a good disagreemnt, and when my friend JP Rangaswami who’s views I respect highly, writes a post that I heartily disagrees with I’m tickled pink! It was his views on Gamification and Dashboards in the enterprise that made me hit the keyboard, because: I see gamification, dashboards and search as signs of [...]
Life With Android, 1 Year Later
A little over a year ago I turned off my iPhone 3 and fired up a new HTC Evo Android handset, the initial experience I wrote about here. I recently upgraded my handset from the Evo to the just released Samsung Epic Touch and wanted to share some thoughts about Android after having lived with it [...]
Facebook denies privacy accusations, shows ‘big brother paternalism’
Facebook responded today to allegations that the company tracks users who have logged out of facebook.com. Read also: Facebook and OnStar face similar privacy accusations A Facebook spokesperson offered the following comment: Facebook does not track users across the web. Instead, we use cookies on social plugins to personalize content (e.g. Show you what your friends liked), to [...]
Social Business Moves to Workflow, Manufacturing, and Money
I receive e-mail frequently from PR people promoting the latest IT tools and new Web applications. These days a common thread I see is the addition of social features to software to make it easier for users to share information and collaborate with others. Personally, I believe it’s largely beneficial to 1) find ways to [...]
Walmart — Investing in Diversity (Women-Owned Businesses, That Is) For the Right Reasons
When supplier diversity becomes simply a whisper down the lane, reporting exercise built around a check-the-box mentality for Federal reporting, it’s pretty clear what the ultimate outcome of such programs will become. Namely, an inter…
Moneyball and NetSuite
Moneyball is a good movie and I recommend it. The tie in with the software industry is NetSuite whose logo is all over the dugout and prominent in several scenes. The central character of the drama is Okland A’s general manager Billy Bean and most of us know his story about actually using statistics [...]
News Analysis: Infor Launches New Era With Infor 10
After 11 months of behind the scenes work, CEO Charles Phillips and the Infor management team unveiled the launch of Infor 10 in New York City on September 13, 2011, to customers, industry analysts, media, and investment analysts. The new Infor has kept busy with key management team hires, the $1.84 B acquisition of Lawson, [...]
SAP HANA Makes Progress and Threatens Oracle
SAP HANA has garnered a great deal of attention in recent weeks and months. For an overview of the technology and its potential, please check my recent blog on the subject, “The real (potential) impact of SAP HANA.” Since that blog was written, there has been a great deal of news in the SAP HANA [...]
Connecting Employees to Social Media: New Possibilities
Recently I’ve been exploring the best ways for companies to establish their workers successfully in the use of social media, both internally and externally to their organizations. Driving adoption and effective uptake of social tools varies rather widely in how easy and quickly it is to for a given business to realize. For example, this process is the most challenging for regulated industries as I deconstructed at length on ZDNet this week. Yet it’s the same issue for all firms: How do we quickly and effectively deal with issues surrounding risk, control, and trust so that we can get to the good part and reap the rewards of social media engagement?
ITs pivot point
Last week I blogged on the New Florence innovation blog about the Startup Genome Project, a benchmark of hundreds of startups and why they fail or succeed. One of their findings was “Most successful startups pivot at least once. Startups that pivot once or twice raise 2.5x more money, have 3.6x better user growth, and [...]
