Business intelligence success, ROI, and failure
Despite the growth of BI, achieving ROI remains a challenge; video interview with Michael Corcoran, Chief Marketing Officer of Information Builders.
JDA and i2: Supply Chain Gets Steam-Rolled Up — And Then There was One
A couple of days ago, JDA closed its acquisition of i2, completing a supply chain vendor roll-up of two of the most valuable technology assets in the planning business: i2 and Manugistics. Back in the crazy B2B marketplace/exchange era, no one would …
Most inane customer service #fail ever
Broadband service provider ntl:Telewest terminated my account today moments after its customer service lines closed for the day, leaving my no way to resolve the issue for eight crucial hours. How inane is that?
NightWatchman saving energy
Following on from my earlier post about the importance of turning things off, we had a briefing the other day from a company called 1E. 1E entered the power management space about 10 years ago when they wrote NightWatchman. NightWatchman is a PC power management application which aims to reduce the energy wasted by computers […]
Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions
Ray Wang began an excellent discussion last month that highlighted the major shifts and disruptive forces that the modern CIO faces today. It’s a given with most executives these days that the business landscape is quite a different one than it was just two short years ago. As part of this, many long-held assumptions and […]
Is Video a Crock? It's Certainly Not the New Holy Grail. Get Off the Screen, Dudes.
Many of you will recognize the title – borrowed from “Enterprise 2.0 a Crock” Dennis Howlett. Needless to say I was quite interested in his discussion with David Terrar, who is more of an E20 fan. Hm…hard to watch. Dennis is too loud while David is barely audible. I kept on turning the volume up […]
Introducing KI OnDemand
Last week, we launched a revolutionary new service at Knowledge Infusion…KI OnDemand. KI OnDemand is the only on-demand insight, consulting and advisory service of its kind. What the heck does that mean? Simply stated, our goal of KI OnDemand is to provide insight, knowledge, and guidance for our clients with three simple outcomes in mind: […]
SMG is Hiring – A LOT
Social Media Group is one of the world’s largest independent social media agencies, and we are growing, growing, growing! As a result we’re looking to add more awesomeness to our team, in a variety of different roles. BUT – before we get into the nitty gritty, I think it’s really important that we share some […]
Where Business Process Meets 2.0
The 2.0 Adoption Council is experimenting with a range of new market ideas that leverage the power of the social web. The 2.0 thinking surrounding network effects, scale, voluntary collaboration, free (as a business model), and social performance/productivity improvements are just a sample of some of the drivers that have made the Council thrive. […]
Work Flows and Wealth Creation
Inseparable since the beginning. Following the last post about Information, Knowledge, Wisdom and Innovation let’s add one particularly interesting and dynamic object organiser, an object by itself: The Workflow. The representation of a particular sequence where value is created and…
