Converting Content-Audience Fit to Product Traction
Jason Lemkin has a new post out about gaining traction after your product ships. He says it’s hard, much harder than building the 1.0 product which was already hard, and he makes some concrete suggestions on how to go about gaining traction: – Finish hiring your core team. Presumably you’ve left the sales and marketing [...]
Can Yahoo ever be a leader?
Although the company is assured a place in Web history, Yahoo over the years has always seemed to have the role of reflecting conventional wisdom about the Web rather than changing people’s perceptions of what’s possible. No wonder Om Malik believes its glory days are over. Yahoo’s first iteration, back in 1994, was as a [...]
The Gap: System and process errors disrupt shopping experience
As author of the Beyond IT Failures blog, I am no stranger to problems that cause endless hassle to consumers, although usually I describe situations that happen to others. Today, however, I can offer a first-hand account of system errors at clothing retailer, Gap Inc., which owns major brands Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Piperlime, [...]
Resolving To Write A Book in 2013 With Guy Kawasaki’s Help
Nearly everyone has at one point or another thought about a book they would love to write. The good news is that disruptive innovation is flourishing in publishing right now. It’s breaking down barriers that kept many authors from getting their books published and making new levels of autonomy and artistic freedom possible. Guy Kawasaki [...]
The life and times of HR application software (2012 in review)
Major Themes 2012 was an interesting one for Human Resources software. From Talent Management, Payroll, Analytics, HRMS and other niche HR solutions, there were a number of cool innovations, emerging trends and a lot of M&A with a side order of an IPO. Let’s review the big themes: You couldn’t swing a dead cat at [...]
Don’t Make Your Next Performance Review Suck
Corporate America appears to be doing a very poor job when it comes to aligning goals, providing performance feedback, and actually investing in the development of employees.
Reading News on an iPad is Astonishly Bad UX
Hi, my name is Bob Warfield, and I am a news junkey. I subscribe to about 200 blogs in my feed reader. I alternate between my Gmail, Google Reader, and Google News when I have a spare moment of leisure, looking for something new and exciting to discover. I do this almost entirely on my [...]
Talent Sourcing fool me twice, shame on me
McKinsey says we are already critically short of “data scientists” even as the hype about Big Data takes off. IBM goes even further and says we are short talent in every aspect of what Cognizant calls the SMAC stack (social, mobile, analytics and cloud). Around the world. If it feels like deja vu all over [...]
Apple to Build in U.S. Again
According to an article in the NEw York Times, on December 6, Apple announced that it would begin making some Macs in the U.S. reversing several years of manufacturing computers in China and setting an interesting precedent. Apple isn’t alone in this. According to another article in the Times, HP has also begun shifting some [...]
Evolution and opportunity: Going beyond IT failure
On April 7, 2006, I wrote my first blog post, titled Poor, Poor FBI, describing an ill-fated FBI project called the Virtual Case File. That article kicked off a writing spree, which continues to this day, of more than 1,000 pieces on ZDNet and elsewhere. Now, I’m extending the IT failures mandate to include broader [...]
