Blueprint to Re-Cycle the much Hyped MagiK Kvadrant
Fellow Enterprise Irregular and HfS Research Founder Phil Fersht introduced their new Blueprint with an appropriate title: Step aside Magic Quadrant, hello Blueprint. I think such a milestone warrants a historical overview of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Hype Cycle, Magic Cycle, Magic Hype, Hyped Magik… or any other variation you prefer. And since it’s just a few [...]
What’s Your Story?
Every social graph tells a story. In this sweeping visualization of nodes and connections, you can see the shape of my career history and relationships. This imprint of my LinkedIn social network was generated yesterday. You can see how new contacts and interrelationships jettisoned off from my base when I started to work at 7Summits. [...]
May I Recruit Your Help in a Knowledge Management Research Project?
Late in 2011 I conducted my first market research project on Knowledge Management. I wanted to get an idea of what was going on in the world, what projects you (royal you, not you personally) were working on, what projects you were going to invest money in, and (more than anything) what was affecting your [...]
Social Research Key Findings
At the recently completed CRM Evolution conference, sponsored by CRM Magazine in New York, Esteban Kolsky presented some of the results of our social media research. We’d been working on it for most of the year and we were writing up the findings almost until Esteban gave the presentation. It killed me not to be [...]
Research data on cloud growth and focus
New survey research adds to our understanding of cloud growth and discusses areas of concern among business adopters of cloud computing.
New Research: Manufacturing and Direct Materials Sourcing: A Planning Guide for the Next Decade
MetalMiner and Spend Matters are excited to announce the launch of a combined research study, Manufacturing and Direct Materials Sourcing: A Planning Guide for the Next Decade. Authored by Jason Busch and Lisa Reisman, this Spend Matt…
The Apps Revolution Manifesto
I’ve been reading a research paper put out by Credit Suisse called The Apps Revolution Manifesto – Volume 1: The Technologies. It’s a fascinating read, if you can get a copy I would encourage you to get a copy (I don’t believe I have distribution rights otherwise I would like a download copy myself). As [...]
MIT Traced Twitter’s Rise Through Conventional Social Nets
Researchers at MIT have concluded from a research study that the spread of Twitter occurred through traditional social channels. That might not seem earth shaking because, well, how else would a new social technology spread? As the report notes, “MIT researchers who studied the growth of the newly hatched Twitter from 2006 to 2009 say [...]
I, For One, Welcome our New Social Data Overlords
Historically, the trouble I’ve always had with social media was the precision deficit surrounding the interpretation of its influence. It always seemed to me that if you could get, say, Chris Brogan to talk about anything, you were successful with social media. Okay, maybe that’s an exaggeration, and social media has really never been my [...]
New Research: Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and Consortia — What You Need to Know
I’ll admit, for quite a long time, I found the philosophical concept of typical group purchasing organizations or consortia to be somewhat flawed. After all, any entity or intermediary that makes its revenue from suppliers tied to the …
