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More Needles, Less Haystacks

More Needles, Less Haystacks

By Sameer Patel on March 24, 2014

This is a lovely article over at the Wall Street Journal by Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkell B/ Rasmussen about what they characterize as “Thick Data”. Here is the basic premise: In fact, companies that rely too much on the numbers, graphs and factoids of Big Data risk insulating themselves from the rich, qualitative reality of their […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Collaborative Business Intelligence, Measurement and Analytics | 1 Response

Is Big Data all that? Consider the source.

Is Big Data all that? Consider the source.

By Sameer Patel on December 24, 2013

A seriously content rich debate ensued in the past days on the validity of big data and accompanying algorithms that govern them. The central hypothesis we’re debating is MIT Professor Andrew McAfee’s assertion that algorithms are smarter than human judgement. Three sources you want to peruse if you want to play: Professor McAfee’s original Harvard […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, Collaborative Business Intelligence, Measurement and Analytics | 2 Responses

The Government-ization of IT. #bigdata #cloud

The Government-ization of IT. #bigdata #cloud

By Sameer Patel on July 8, 2013

As we in the private sector fawn over the opportunity that is Big Data, details about PRISM give me the feeling that we’re likely the butt of many jokes in the Government Sector. As we waffle over the applicability of big data, PRISM proves that we really didn’t start the fire – the government has been mastering […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BigData, Cloud Computing, Consumerization, Governmentization, Measurement and Analytics, SaaS and Cloud | 1 Response

Tiny Insights. #bigdata

Tiny Insights. #bigdata

By Sameer Patel on May 6, 2012

The carbon footprint of a beef burrito is 5 times that of a chicken burrito. That’s per Eugene Cordero, Professor at San Jose State University, and came my way via my pal, Frank Scavo, a few weeks ago. You want to take massive causes or opportunities and humanize them down to a single unit of […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Business Intelligence, Measurement and Analytics | 2 Responses

Social Business Facts and Fiction.

Social Business Facts and Fiction.

By Sameer Patel on February 29, 2012

The hubris around Social Business is scaling new heights these days, and yet in many ways the concept seems to be redlining to nowhere.  As an example, take a look at this thread on Google Plus by Francine Hardaway. 133 comments later, there’s little agreement on what all of this really is, who the experts are, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Altimeter Group, Collaborative Organizations, Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Measurement and Analytics, Social network | 1 Response

BigData, Mobile and Cloud Convergence: The Elephants

BigData, Mobile and Cloud Convergence: The Elephants

By Sameer Patel on February 15, 2012

Eric Norlin, organizer of Defrag, Blur and Glue Conferences and seed investor, has a good post up today about what enterprise development means in the age of big data, mobile and cloud and the coming age of convergence of these big innovation spurts. I really recommend that you take 3 minutes to read his post […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Measurement and Analytics, mobile enterprise, SaaS and Cloud, speaking | 1 Response

Why I’m Optimistic about 2012

Why I’m Optimistic about 2012

By Sameer Patel on November 29, 2011

TechCrunch quotes a warning of sorts by Venture Capitalist Josh Kopelman who basically says 2012 will be more like a correcting 2008, as opposed to a euphoric 2011. Lots of good for and against arguments on the VC investing front by the likes of Dave McClure and others in the comments on TC. Regardless of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Collaborative Business Intelligence, Collaborative Organizations, Customer Interaction and SocialCRM, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Innovation and Crowd-Sourcing, Measurement and Analytics, mobile enterprise

Marketing your Marketing

Marketing your Marketing

By Sameer Patel on November 27, 2011

Chalk this up to another example of why Marketing STILL doesn’t get social. Social Times reports that the way to get more “Likes” on Facebook is to offer coupons to satiate the what’s-in-it-for-me hunger of an increasingly discriminating social networker. This might well be that moment in social media marketing history when we look back and say – “what […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Customer Interaction and SocialCRM, Facebook, Groupon, marketing, Measurement and Analytics, Social Media | 2 Responses

TideMark: Bringing Collaborative Performance to an EPM Problem near you.

TideMark: Bringing Collaborative Performance to an EPM Problem near you.

By Sameer Patel on October 20, 2011

Lets cut to the chase: The business intelligence we rely on as enterprises to perform better can suck at times. I remember a famous dot com era business systems accomplishment that was touted up and down silicon valley. I paraphrase but it went something like this: “Cisco has the ability to do a virtual close on […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Business Intelligence, Collaborative Organizations, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Measurement and Analytics, mobile enterprise

Assessing the Real Value of ‘Me’

Assessing the Real Value of ‘Me’

By Sameer Patel on September 21, 2011

Last year, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Monterey, California with CHROs and HR executives from some of the largest organizations in the world. My charter was to suggest a practical pathway for how HR can become a critical weapon in the arsenal of ‘compete to win in the 21st century’ planning and how the connected […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative HR Performance, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Event Reviews, Measurement and Analytics | 1 Response

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