Consumerization of IT, Well…
This topic has been coming up a lot over the last couple of weeks, and I’ve just been asked to speak on it at two conferences in Latin America next year, so I thought it was time to write down…
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 [...]
Converging on the Social Enterprise
I was in San Francisco last week for Dreamforce, the yearly confab for Salesforce that has had a major focus on social business the last couple of years. There’s little doubt that Marc Benioff clearly sees the very near future of business, and it’s something he calls the social enterprise. While you can read my [...]
Consumer IT Resets the Baseline for Corporate IT
In moving to a BigCo job you quickly notice how different life behind the firewall is when it comes to IT. You’re often more limited than empowered. The advances in consumer IT (things like Facebook and GMail) often have created better IT than corporations provide their employees. For well over a decade, corporate IT has [...]
Integration Made Easier: Workday Announces A Cloud Integration Platform
Yesterday Workday announced that it is opening up its integration platform for customer and partner use. The platform, built off of technology that Workday acquired when it bought Cape Clear, provides a set of cloud based tools to build, deploy, run and manage custom integrations. Integration between applications has traditionally been a complex and expensive [...]
The New Agenda: Enterprise IT Spending, Scarcity and Post Recession, People-Centric Necessity
We’re in a world of stark economic realities driven by a variety of colliding business and technology factors. The unemployment rate in Jan 2011 was 9% and several experts have predicted that that number could stay consistent for the whole…
Microsoft Plays Where’s Waldo? With BI – Good Idea
In April, I was critical of the BI messaging I heard from Microsoft – as told, it was long on benefit adjectives and short on architectural clarity. But things have changed since then, and the Combined Tech Ed/Business Intelligence Conference made that very clear. Do I see more clarity because I now know more of [...]
My Brother-in-law in IT
I had to laugh out loud today as I caught up with an old business acquaintance, now CEO of a good sized firm, and heard the story of how the founder’s son is running the IT department. I have heard this story so many times that I asked, without really thinking about, “Why do so many [...]
