That’s a quote from Bill McDermott, Co-CEO of SAP on the keynote stage. A message from SAP’s leadership to over 50,000 customers, employees and partners worldwide. As I travelled back to Palo Alto last night from SAPPHIRE 2010, the central theme came clear to me: SAPs re-focus centers on leveraging people and relationships to redesign […]
I read, with great interest, an interview with Jeff Clavier of SoftTechVC in Network World. Jeff’s had notable successes in the consumer world (Mint, MyBlogLog, and Userplane). I’ve never interacted with Jeff (other than recommending a Dim Sum Restaurant on Twitter) but I’ve always had respect for him – unlike many others, he’s adequately self […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
I’m at the KMWorld Conference in San Jose for a couple of hours this afternoon, sitting in on the Intranet 2.0 session with Toby Ward. Toby’s got some good pointers on the value and current state of Intranet 2.0. Many findings from his firms Intranet 2.0 research report as well. I’ve tried to capture some […]