It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed Yet
You know, that quote about the future already being here. I saw a tweet at the end of last year about an airport in Helsinki that had already gone 5G replete with welcoming robots. All this progress in various stages of 5G planning, rollout, development, and, well, freakout (conversations we were having in back channels) […]
Faster, Further, Flashier, and more Fun– 5G: It’s Coming
This update is a follow up to our holiday greeting card. As promised, I alluded to a new direction we’re taking with SoCo Partners. Generally speaking, my partner and I are still focused on innovation and innovators in every tech sector. Yet, over the past few years, I’ve increasingly become fascinated with the massive step […]
EPM, Project Orion, and the Beginner’s Mind
I’ll always be thankful for my time at Salesforce both because I met so many amazing people and because I learned so much. I learned about the importance of Trust in a SaaS company (and was drilled in the mantra, “nothing is more important than the Trust of our customers.”) And I learned about shoshin, […]
Seven Universal Factors Why Technology Firms Fail
Hubris Drives Most Tech Firm Failures After observing the technology industry for two decades, one can’t help but identify a recurring theme – the beginning of the end of a technology vendor. While most firms do not endure a mass failure and come back to life like Apple did with Steve Jobs or transform business […]
What is Your Network Telling You?
I caught up this week with Cai Kjaer whom I’ve known via the social web as one of the founders of Optimice. We used Optimice at Change Agents Worldwide to map our core competencies within the network. I’ve always been a big fan of Social Network Analysis (SNA), and feel we are leaving a lot of […]
Successful Networks Require a Cross-Disciplinary Team
It should come as no surprise that a one-dimensional approach to network “deployment” will yield lackluster results. In the heyday of the Enterprise 2.0 movement, it was largely IT that introduced social networks to the workforce. The mistake that many customers made in those early days was viewing social networks as a technology platform vs. […]
Passion is No Ordinary Word
[This is a bit of an insider post. New blog readers, please bear with me.] Here’s a question: When did you first fall in love with Luis Suarez? For me, it was sometime in 2006 or 2007. I first wrote about him on my blog in 2007 after he unpacked a 7-part analysis of the […]
WIIFM on Working Socially?
Let’s be honest: change bites! Most people do not like change. Change brings uncertainty, a loss of security and control, a fleeting feeling of helplessness, and even panic. Helping large organizations embrace disruptive change is a tall order. What’s needed are roadmaps, play books, guidance, intelligence, patience, and a little inspiration. But, change can be […]
It’s Time To Consolidate Social Business Platforms
Greater Adoption In Social Business Signifies A Move To Consolidate Platforms Constellation’s buy-side clients tend to fit in the market leader or fast follower categories when it comes to organizational personas of disruptive technology adoption. Since 2010, respondents have progressed through the DEEPR framework and the latest results from 2012 indicate that most survey respondents […]
That Sound You’re Not Hearing in Your Business Could Be Fatal.
“Fools,” said I, “You do not know. Silence like a cancer grows.” Simon and Garfunkel If we’ve learned anything over these past six, going on seven years of covering the internal social collaboration sector, it’s that the social web has become a catalyst for intellectual curiosity. Tribes are forming everywhere with the growing popularity of niche sub-groups […]
