What’s Coming Up in Social Business, CoIT, Open APIs, and More
While 2011 was a busy year, I’m expecting 2012 to be a breakout year for a number of key subject areas that I work with closely. The run up of social business over the last five years has been phenomenal but there’s a general sense now that it’s about to go truly mainstream. That’s not [...]
Internet of Thingworks, bringing industrial into the mix
I have been writing and consulting about the Internet of Things since 1999, when I helped Jonathan Eunice create the “Pervasive Automation” practice at Illuminata. Billions of dollars have poured into the space since then, but we still haven’t seen the big transformation many of us have expected for a long time. But increasingly it [...]
Employee branding. Some assembly required.
I stumbled on this brilliant video today (hat tip to @williamtincup). This is one of the better examples of linking corporate and employee branding for recruitment I have seen. Low cost Innovative Targeted Measured (note the stats at the end). It cleverly reinforces the corporate and the employee brand. I wrote a note several years ago [...]
The Real Mega-trend in IT. Hint: its not social, cloud, Big Data
So, by now you have read a bunch of last year’s trends and forecasts for this year. You probably have your favorites – cloud computing or Big Data, maybe? Talk to CEOs and the big excitement is about what is on display at CES in Vegas this week. No, not ultrabooks – but technology which [...]
Improve Selling with Information, Not Data
It’s the beginning of the year, time for sales kickoff meetings and presidents’ clubs at some location within ten degrees of the equator. These signal events will reward those diligent and fortunate enough to have made or exceeded quota while focusing the attention of everyone on this year’s mission. Typically that includes higher quotas and [...]
Adding the Eurozone Crisis to the Reasons Why Local Sourcing Makes Economic Sense
Before the New Year, the FT ran an article titled Supply chain: Inflation encourages trend to ‘near-source’ production. The piece does a decent job of summarizing some of the major reasons that organizations are evaluating local sourci…
