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The Dollar Shave Club of Everything

The Dollar Shave Club of Everything

By Sameer Patel on December 1, 2014

Whilst technology has significantly brought costs of production and distribution down, for consumers or businesses the cost of goods we procure has remained as high as ever. But that’s about to change. The systematic dismantling of unit cost economics of existing markets across many industries is now underway.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Digital Transformation, Elon Musk, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Management, Product Management, SaaS and Cloud, Tesla Motors | 1 Response

Heart and Hustle in Indian HR #hrtech

Heart and Hustle in Indian HR #hrtech

By Sameer Patel on September 2, 2014

This past week was an immersive boot camp for me on the state of human capital management in India. I had the privilege of keynoting two events – TechHR 2014, India’s first HR Tech Conference in Gurgaon, followed by HRConnect, SAP/ Successfactors regional HR conference in Mumbai and participating in a working dinner session with 18 CHRO’s representing some […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Collaborative HR Performance, Digital Transformation, Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, sap, speaking

Tasty Salted Pig Parts

Tasty Salted Pig Parts

By Sameer Patel on April 14, 2014

Tasty Salted Pig Parts is the tag line for Chef Chris Cosentino’s Boccalone, a meticulously well-stocked salumeria inside San Francisco’s Ferry Building.  I’ve hunted down salumerias in the back alleys of many little towns in Emilia Romagna. Trust me – Boccalone is really all that. I highly recommend it. What does this have to do with technology products? […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Management, Product Management, SaaS and Cloud

pretzel logic: l’acte deux

pretzel logic: l’acte deux

By Sameer Patel on August 5, 2013

Five years ago I started this blog because I felt really strongly about an ill conceived contention in a blog post about the promise of RSS. Hours before I read that post, I had no intention or desire to blog but I felt really strongly about my PoV and decided to put up a blog […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Enterprise and Social Sofware, Facebook, Instagram, linkedin, Personal, SaaS and Cloud, social business, Social Enterprise, YELP | 1 Response

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

Much ado about Competitive nothings

Much ado about Competitive nothings

By Sameer Patel on April 29, 2013

Nmachi Jidenma writes about the undue focus we put on the competition. This is written with individuals in mind but I think it matters to emerging software categories as well. My favorite lines: “It only makes sense that competing with others distracts from the distinctiveness that makes our art special. By comparing ourselves with others, we […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, competition, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Marketing strategy, SaaS and Cloud, Steve Jobs, Tesla Model S | 2 Responses

“The new business requirements of the social, mobile, consumer enterprise” – #SAPPHIRENOW

“The new business requirements of the social, mobile, consumer enterprise” – #SAPPHIRENOW

By Sameer Patel on May 12, 2012

I’m privileged to be doing a keynote discussion with ZDNet columnist and Asuret CEO Michael Krigsman at a pre-conference event at ASUG / SAP SAPPHIRE event tomorrow (Sunday).  The larger topic is consumerization of IT and the move to the Cloud, but in many ways, the idea is to talk about the reset of the relationship between […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, speaking

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

Rypple and Salesforce.com: It’s about Identity.

Rypple and Salesforce.com: It’s about Identity.

By Sameer Patel on December 16, 2011

Salesforce.com announced that it has acquired Toronto-based Rypple – a social performance management provider. Given my preference for fix-a-problem social software, I’ve always appreciated that Rypple injected the needed context to illustrate why collaborative approaches and in turn, social software mattered to core enterprise process.  No head scratching on use cases when you saw the […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Business Intelligence, Collaborative HR Performance, Enterprise and Social Sofware, SaaS and Cloud | 1 Response

Oracle OpenWorld: Fifteen Minutes with Mark Hurd.

Oracle OpenWorld: Fifteen Minutes with Mark Hurd.

By Sameer Patel on October 4, 2011

I spent fifteen minutes with Oracle’s President, Mark Hurd, along with Sudhir Chowdhary from the Financial Express yesterday at Oracle OpenWorld 2011.  These were the big take aways from our conversation: 1. Collaboration Moving Front and Center Oracle seems to have rationalized its’ investments in the areas of content and collaboration technology and has come […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Collaborative Organizations, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Event Reviews, SaaS and Cloud, speaking | 2 Responses

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