Lecko on collaboration and Microsoft on Teams at SMILE
Marc Wright invited us to join in the simply communicate fun at Social Media In Large Enterprise London yesterday – follow #smilelondon to see the great tweet stream. This is the first of a set of posts from the Agile Elephant team reporting on what was an inspiring and well organised day, packed with good stories and networking. […]
Research Summary: Constellation’s AstroChart For Tech Trends
Avoiding The Hype In Trend Cycles Constellation’s AstroChartTM for Technology provides market leaders and fast followers a visual guide to technology trends and their adoption. The vertical access rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge. The horizontal access estimates the impact on an organization’s business model. from incremental to disruptive to […]
SMILE London Workshops 2016 – Enterprise Social Networks and more
Back on 12 May, Marc Wright of Simply Communicate kindly invited us to join in the latest version of his Social Media Inside the Large Enterprise London Workshops. The new format has 4 time slots each with 3 choices of workshop, so you could attend 4 out of 12. They covered a varied set of […]
Buying Business Software
Buying behavior has changed over the last decade. The free availability of rich information / content distributed by the Internet, the ability to connect easily to peers online and the emergence of platforms for crowdsourcing product evaluations all contribute to this change. If buying changes then by necessity marketing and sales behaviors must also change […]
Endings and Beginnings
Almost ten years ago I did a slight career course change and moved from senior roles inside software companies to software market analyst. In that nearly ten years with analyst firm IDC, leading what has grown into a broad team of highly respected software market analysts, I have grown professionally and personally. For the first […]
Enterprise Digital Summit London 2015 – #EntDigi impressions and key messages
Here’s a Storify summary of impressions, tweetable slides and key messages from the 22 Oct 2015, Enterprise Digital Summit London event, selected from the #EntDigi tweet stream and flickr photos. We’ll be publishing more posts, impressions and write ups here soon. Please contact us if you want to find out more. [View the story “Enterprise Digital […]
Of corporate dinosaurs, lipstick and pigs (digitally speaking)
On Wednesday night we occupied under the arches of the ICA’s cafe bar for one of our regular Combined Social Business Sessions London meetups. Our main speaker was Euan Semple (@Euan on Twitter), well known keynote speaker on social business and collaboration as well as the author of Organisations Don’t Tweet, People Do. Eaun probably […]
Today’s CMO’s Need a Swift Kick in the Bu… Digital
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
Yet here I am, a member of the Don’t Do a Good Enough Job Selling the Value of Marketing club.
Everyone’s talking Digital and it’s Dangerous
Everyone’s talking digital – either disruption or transformation and it’s dangerous. Plenty of books with digital in the title and that’s dangerous. Plenty of events around the digital topic and that’s dangerous too. It’s dangerous because this is too important a topic to be diluted by being overhyped. We’re actually talking about business survival […]
Are Social Practitioners and Evangelists Truly Different?
By Susan Scrupski on March 23, 2016
My friend, Alan Lepofsky, has always made this point, “Social people are different. The rest of the world is not like us.” Ironically, Alan and I get into the most hair-splitting among our pro-social circle of friends, but I’ve come to understand he is absolutely right about this. “We” are a different breed. The online […]
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