IBM Lotusphere 2012: The Old Lotus Has Wilted
+1 for Social Business. IBM is in. Whole hog. 6000+ faithful Lotus attendees and 100s of Lotus Partners got fed IBM’s ebusiness equivalent play for the 21st century. Simply put, that they are betting their entire portfolio of collaboration solutions, both old and new on Social Business. One fat caveat before I put my thoughts here. [...]
SAP buys Datango, and the Race to (Finally) Give End User Training its Due Begins
SAP is doing something significant in the acquisition of Datango, the question is whether the market will react accordingly. The move is significant in that Datango offers a new paradigm for enterprise software training, but that significance is temper…
The Creeping Utility of Camera Phones
I remember the first time I saw someone take a picture of a whiteboard, thinking at the time how clever it was but also how it rendered the expensive whiteboard printing devices we had utterly useless by comparison. Over the years the creeping utility of the camera phone has permeated so many aspects of my [...]
CES show for the Enterprise launches with CITE – Be there!
Get Connected at CITE in San Francisco (March 4-7, 2012). The onslaught of new devices and ease of use for circumventing a large company’s boring IT environment, has been gaining traction in every corner of the knowledge worker universe. Finally, a new conference has cropped up to take a look at these issues (and opportunities) [...]
Enterprise Gamification: How Gamification will Make the Social, Collaborative Dream a Reality
I’ve been working in the interactive gaming and gamification industry for over four years now, first as the founder of a now-defunct start-up focused on developing interactive training games, and most recently as a hands-on catalyst for enterprise gamification. It’s been gratifying to see this idea crop up as a topic of considerable interest – [...]
What is Gamification?
Gamification… the buzzword is all the rage and one thing I can’t help but observe is that it means different things to everyone you talk with, even though the core concept of creating incentives for users of an app or service to do specific tasks is pretty well accepted. Here’s what the functional breakdown means [...]
2012 Predictions
It’s the time of year when predictions are thrown out left and right, so in keeping with the spirit I have put together a list of things I would like to see happen in the year ahead. The Business of Social Networks: We have seen a coalescing of business models form around social networks and [...]
Communication Shapeshifting, the USPS, and Atos Banning Email
I read this morning (and heard on the news while driving in) that the USPS is asking Congress to let it relax the requirements for first class mail delivery. Aside from the obvious observation that the USPS being tethered to Congress is in no small part a factor in their deteriorating financial condition, the other [...]
Forrester: Enterprise Social Software Market Sizing
Forrester recently released a report that, among other things, forecast the size of the enterprise social software market to grow to $6.4b in 2016. Here is a link to the original publication, however a summary of the research can be found here. I tend to follow these markets and research like this is interesting to [...]
Clowns To The Left Of Us, Jokers To The Right: It’s Easy To Spot Ineffective HRM
Clowns To The Left Of Us, Jokers To The Right Of Us… I’ve been collecting stories for years. Family stories, stories about friends, about trips Ron and I have made, about colleagues and others with whom I’ve crossed paths professionally, about the highlights and lowlights (and lowlives) in my personal and professional lives. Now, with [...]
