Altimeter Group Acquired
TechCrunch is running a story saying that Altimeter Group, the analyst firm founded by Charlene Li in 2008 after leaving Forrester, has been acquired for an undisclosed amount of cash or stock or whatever. It was undisclosed after all. The acquiring company, Prophet a consulting firm, is focused on marketing, design, and brand strategy. Seems […]
The Strategic Role of Digital Networks in Corporate Leadership Today
While there are a number of key factors that help organizations create important new types of business results using enterprise social networks or online communities, leadership is almost always at the top of the list. There is no avoiding the fact that what executives and middle managers actually do when it comes to leadership with […]
Charlene Li’s Book : Open Leadership
Charlene Li and Forrester’s Josh Bernoff earlier gave the pioneering book, “Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”, which provided business a leg up to understand social technologies and consumer behaviors. (For the record : Charlene was amongst the well known Forrester Star who quit to start her own venture Altimeter Group with […]
If Social Media will be like Air, Enterprise 2.0 will be like Carbon
The year I transferred from a small, liberal State college to the ginormous State University, I started the fall semester with a bevy of difficult subjects: Chemistry, Calculus, Introduction to Philosophy, and Abnormal Psychology. When I showed up for my first day of Chemistry, little did I know I had entered the wrong classroom. I was […]
Some Pre-Forecast Odds Ends re: Social CRM
Before I push out my Forecast for 2010 (next week some time), I have a few short observations that are honestly somewhat random: Facebook Does It Again – Not So Privately All Facebook members…
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