Three Types of Social Network
Social business adoption in the workplace
As I look to examine what we’ve learned about enterprise social media over the last few years, I’ll be hosting some guest posts about those who have been working hands-on in the space and examine what they’ve learned. Please reach me via the ZDNet contact form if you have […]
A Closer Look: Myths vs. Reality in Training
A roundup of popular assumptions challenged by new information. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson As humans, we tend to believe new ideas that reinforce current views and reject those that don’t. Thus we rarely clean our mental closets of popular but outdated […]
The Future Value of Voice and Messaging
Maximising profits and staying relevant in a multi-media world: >$80bn to fight for Summary: Our new research shows how telcos can slow the decline of voice and messaging revenues and build new communications services to maximise revenues and relevance with both consumer and enterprise customers. It includes detailed forecasts for […]
Corporate Memory and Personal Knowledge Management – A Dichotomy?
PKM and Corporate Memory I was recently asked to give a talk to a breakfast meeting of the Managing Partners’ Forum ( MPF ). The focus of the talk was around the possible dichotomy (or misalignment) of the development needs of the individual and the demands of the organisation […]
Enterprise apps reborn in the cloud
enterprise-cloud-apps-carousel Phil Wainewright | On May 31, 2013 Mention the word ‘cloud’ and people who work in IT instantly start getting excited about hypervisors, devops, network virtualization and other arcane technologies. Business people know better. They realize that cloud is important not for what’s under the covers, but because […]
Who Should “Own” Integration?
Friday Nov 22nd 2013 by Loraine Lawson Should IT own integration work? Or should it empower citizen developers to deal with today’s never-ending data integration needs? Slide Show Drivers and Challenges of Enterprise Integration Revealed If anything should belong to IT, you would think it would be something as […]
Renaissance CIO
Gartner: Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends For 2014
Gartner just concluded its Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2013 in Orlando, gathering tens of thousands of IT executives. Among the most anticipated aspects of the gathering are the ruminations from the Gartner pontificators regarding IT trends. Among several trends shared were the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2014. Here is a […]
The Most Talented IT Executives are Advancing Beyond CIO
I recently completed a series in this column referring to the CIO-plus. In it, I interviewed a number of chief information officers who had been asked to take on additional responsibilities, due to the great work done as CIOs and the appreciation that that good work translates well into […]