Carrot Beats Stick
WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of bankruptcy, I immediately thought of my childhood. Thankfully those cheerful marketing images that blanketed the store shelves were…
Tuesday’s Tip: Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs To C-Level Business Strategy
Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs Provides Prioritization Of An Individual’s Needs In 1943, Abraham Maslow put forward his paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Eleven years later in 1954, Maslow went into detail on his hierarchy of needs in his book titled Motivation and Personality. The framework outlined five needs from the most fundamental or “deficiency [...]
The Web vs. Mobile Apps: How iOS and Android Are Disrupting The Open Internet
The battle is well under way but I find that most people barely notice it. As Shelly Freierman of the New York Times noted earlier this week, as developers put the finishing touches on the millionth mobile app (yes, millionth, as with an ‘M’), other channels are now outmatched: The pace of new app development [...]
Consumerization: Why the Workplace of Tomorrow Looks Like The Internet
The title of this post is almost right. The workplace of tomorrow will look like a lot of things actually, including the Internet; just not a whole lot like the way our organizations look today. For one, the workplace itself has steadily begun to disappear as teleworking becomes more and more prevalent, though the latest [...]
Transforming the Enterprise As We Know It
As I was reading David F. Carr’s latest piece on The Brainyard today, it drove home again for me some of the practically insurmountable challenges that many organizations have in avoiding the growing forces of digital disruption. David’s piece talked about Don Tapscott‘s proposition that we have to fundamentally remake the way our organizations engage [...]
Social Business Moves to Workflow, Manufacturing, and Money
I receive e-mail frequently from PR people promoting the latest IT tools and new Web applications. These days a common thread I see is the addition of social features to software to make it easier for users to share information and collaborate with others. Personally, I believe it’s largely beneficial to 1) find ways to [...]
Consumers Exert Ownership
I have written on several occasions about how social network users and online community members have exerted their shared ownership of a service to affect changes in policy and feature. This comes about from the reality that a social network without members isn’t much of anything therefore the users in a network have a purposeful [...]
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 [...]
Dreamforce 11: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote
I’m here at Dreamforce 11 right now in Moscone Center in San Francisco. Salesforce made major announcements last night about Chatter, their social business platform, that is now more Internet facing. I once called Chatter an enterprise social operating system and these announcements make it even more true now. Expect that this will significantly improve [...]
What Would Steve Do? Ruminations on the Jobs Formula
The follow on wave to the initial reaction to Steve Jobs departure has begun, and it’s interesting. It’s all about understanding the “Steve Jobs Formula”. I confess I do enjoy reading these articles as do I enjoy reading about the “Warren Buffet Formula.” There are entire books about the latter. The one thing that is [...]
