By Thomas Otter on February 27, 2010
My blogging mojo had left the building for a while, but for better or worse it returned today.
When I speak to enterprise software vendors they often moan about Excel. They say it is not secure, and that most spreadsheets contain errors. They preach about the dangers of information silos, of decisions made on old and [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Software | Tagged design, enterprise software, erp, excel, Facebook, microsoft, oracle, salesforce.com, sap, shelfware, software as a service, Spreadsheet, ui, usability
By David Terrar on February 8, 2010
When I first tweeted that Jack Trout’s new book “In Search of the Obvious” had arrived from Amazon, my mate @euan suggested his (excellent) blog is actually easy to find. He called it “The Obvious” because when he started writing about the application of new technology and social media in organizations, he felt that, [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged advertising, al ries, design, General Business, jack trout, laws of marketing, marketing, Marketing & Media, marketing warfare, media, messaging, positioning, sales, Sales & Marketing, strategy
By David Terrar on January 30, 2010
The first thing I’ve got to say is the title of this post was supplied in a tweet from Alan Patrick (@freecloud), but it perfectly encapsulates the controversy going on in the geek world around the new Apple tablet device announced on Wednesday. Is it going to be as successful and “game changing” like the [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, appstore, Convergence, darwin, design, divergence, ebook, epub, ibook, iPad, iPhone, ipod, Mac, newton, Productivity, tablet
By David Terrar on January 29, 2010
Some of us of a certain age come from a time when presentations weren’t created directly on the PC (or Mac) with PowerPoint (or Keynote), or with cool new online tools like Prezi. Back then before laptop PCs and low cost flash drives, if there was plenty of money in the marketing budget, and the presentation was really important you might create photographic slides, but usually it was paper on a flip chart stand, or more likely foils and an overhead projector (and you could write your notes alo…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged design, Keynote, marketing, PowerPoint, Presentation, Prezi, Productivity, sales
By Thomas Otter on January 28, 2010
Cross posted on my Gartner blog.
My colleagues, Ray, Allen, Mike, Mark, Andrew, Mark and Van, are all over the iPad. Ray’s posts are particularly thought provoking, as he looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the device. There is also lots of commentary on the web, and the consumer electronics bloggers have discussed its every [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged apple, design, enterprise software, iPad, ui
By Zoli Erdos on January 5, 2010
Brand vs. Quality. Which Would You Pay For? – I asked recently, making the case that “trusted old brands” like HP are producing inferior quality, while formerly “no-name cheapo” component maker ASUS is becoming a household name. They are basically doing what Honda, Toyota (and now the Koreans) did to the car business.
Sure, ASUS [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, asus, brand, design, Hewlett-Packard, marketing, Personal computer, Toyota
By Jason Busch on December 15, 2009
For years, industry pundits have lavished praise on Apple as an
industry supply-chain leader that takes advantage of design and
manufacturing expertise on a truly global basis. Down to the “Designed
by Apple in California … Assembled in Ch…
Posted in Business | Tagged apple, design, Macintosh, supply chain, supply risk
By Zoli Erdos on November 9, 2009
I’ve said before: if you wanto to dazzle with your presentation, use Prezi. The Prezi team did to presentations what Google did to email: throw away all pre-existing notions, re-think why and how we use email (presentations) and build something from scratch. That’s how you get results that truly dazzle.
Of course that brings up the [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged design, Microsoft PowerPoint, ppt, Presentation, Prezi
By Zoli Erdos on November 7, 2009
Styling and ergonomics don’t always go hand in hand. And sometimes they fail together…
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged apple, design, ergonomics, Mac, magic mouse, openoffice, openofficemouse, usability
By Michael Coté on October 13, 2009
Enterprise uses of Google Wave, HTML 5, and so on, all at SAP TechEd 2009.
Posted in Software | Tagged design, Enterprise Geek, enterprise software, Google Wave, RIA Weekly, ui, user interface
