Phil Wainewright | On November 4, 2013 As the bowtie-wearing presenter bid farewell to the crowd here in Barcelona at the end of today’s global launch event for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, a grizzled analyst in the row behind me muttered, “What, nothing about the product?” Departing from the […]
Incentives For Knowledge Workers In the Social Enterprise
This week, I started in Vegas with huge SAP TechEd conference, then moved on to Houston for the much more intimate APQC Process Conference, attended by 150 of so quality practitioners who are focused on process. I arrived too late for the first day’s sessions, but caught up with […]
Can’t change, won’t change – lessons from banking
If you listen to or read the rhetoric from the new breed of vendors, you’ll often hear them say something that was encapsulated well in something Stuart Lauchlan reported upon when discussing business intelligence . A quote from Brad Peters, Birst’s CEO serves […]
Employee engagement, social business, collaboration: are we getting it?
At last week’s CCE2013 event, a lively panel chaired by Alan Lepofsky addressed the topic of age in the workplace. By that I mean the panel opined on a not too distant future when there could be five generations in the workplace. […]
Gartner Identifies Four Futures for IT and CIOs
Analysts Examine Key Technology Issues Affecting CIOs at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2012, November 5-8 in Barcelona, Spain The changing shape of IT is causing CIOs to question the role of IT in the organization and the part they will play in it, according to Gartner, Inc. As businesses confront […]
Why Enterprise Social Collaboration Means Business
As global citizens, it seems that we are constantly confronted with a growing list of daunting challenges to our survival as a species and to our planet. It has become apparent to many that we can’t do it alone; we’ve got to work together (apologies to fans of Ayn […]
Intelligent Business Processes Webinar Q&A
Earlier this week, I gave a webinar on intelligent business processes , sponsored by Software AG; the slides are embedded following, and you can get a related white paper that I wrote here . There were a number of questions at the end that we didn’t have time to […]
Six Keys for Your Social Collaboration Strategy
With a growing number of remote and geographically dispersed employees, travelers on the High Tech Highway are seeking new ways to engage, interact and collaborate. One of the fastest growing solutions continues to be social collaboration. In today’s Roundup, […]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About “Social”
by Nilofer Merchant | 2:00 PM February 20, 2013 Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? Do you know? If you don’t know, you might be using the wrong term in the wrong context. Which doesn’t […]
Execution Rules, Strategy Drools !
I didn’t get a lot of sleep past night – maybe 4 hours . And as I am on to my third cup of coffee this morning , I had a short twitter conversation on the ever green topic of strategy and execution . I couldn’t help post a […]