As some of you heard (many thanks for the notes), I’ve joined the Defrag Conference Advisory Board. For those of you who are not familiar with the conference, Defrag is a yearly event in Denver that’s focused on emerging tools and trends in technology and its’ impact on business. The conference is organized by Phil […]
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse." – Henry Ford. Somewhere there’s got to be a similar line from Steve Jobs as well. And both have successfully belted out product after product that changed the automotive, mobile and media business, forever. All without involving the customer in a […]
This morning my favorite business journal, the Economist, has a good article on how the recession has had an impact on productivity and the differences in fall out in the United States vs. the European Union. First an extremely interesting and arguably polarizing difference in how productivity is defined. The economist says: Producing more by […]
Sovos will be presenting on Accelerating Performance via Social and Enterprise 2.0 technology at a webinar hosted by Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) this week, Thursday. Oliver Marks and I will both be on deck engaging with the audience on how to approach social computing in the context of organizational, customer and partner performance. […]
Enterprise 2.0 has a parallel universe. The first one that gets a lot of the press – product suites that offer Facebook like enterprise social networking, Blogs, Wikis, Activity Streams etc. The second is what’s been traditionally called Unified Communications – led by companies such as IBM and Cisco that are making a strong showing […]
Not the IT case, the Business Case – for sales reps, product managers, marketers, support and service teams considering and debating the virtues of a SaaS enabled business platform. Obviously it won’t make up for an allegedly ill-conceived product and Google Buzz is getting a lot of heat for being excessively social without consent. That […]
Earlier this month I did a presentation with my Sovos colleague, Oliver Marks, at the Enterprise 2.0 virtual conference. The focus of our keynote was to frame the discussion around social and collaborative concepts in the context of business value and performance. We coverd critical issues that are on the minds of executives at large […]