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Future ERP

Brian Sommer's provocative post that juxtaposes SAP's technology thinking around the 'old' and 'new' worlds provides insights into something SAP was talking about last year - the two speed world of ERP. At the back end there is still plenty to do, hardening applications, winkling out recurring bugs...

Tags: Innovation, Salesforce.com Inc., Financial, SAP AG, ERP, Brian Sommer, Brian, S-curve, Cloud Infrastructure, BRP, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-19

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The future of Twitter: SocialBRP

As I said elsewhere, I missed most of the weekend fun following Robert Scoble's sputter of posts on the Facebook/Twitter thing that starts here and spilled into Techmeme.  My concern has centered around the concentration of thinking on all things marketing. That's an easy thing to do. After all, on...

Tags: Siemens AG, Twitter, ESME, Goodness, Branding, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Marketing, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Honey I just blew up the ERP

Sigurd Rinde, one of my Irregular pals is also one of the sharpest people I know. He constantly challenges the status quo in a creative way. This morning's offering made me smile: Good thing about working from home is that I can watch webstreams from conferences -...

Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Accounting, Crowdsourcing, ERP, Sig, Dick, Steve, Effectiveness, Operational Planning, Web 2.0, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Business Operations, Internet, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Yo-yo'ing on Millennials

Larry Dignan's post earlier in the week asking whether Millennials will re-invent IT struck a chord with a few of my Irregular friends. First up, Larry's conclusion: I remember this generational stereotyping with the Generation X crowd. Job market stunk. Generation X was differentâ€"they were pissed. They were wearing...

Tags: Information Technology, Generation, Millennials, Hindsight, Ross Mayfield, Susan Scrupski, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-06-20

The problem with Forrester's $4.6 billion prediction

Forrester has released a report indicating that Enterprise 2.0 spending will reach $4.6 billion by 2013. ( I would offer a link but the one I have is broken.) I'm uncomfortable with the report though it hints at some interesting developments. Any prediction is based upon the...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Forget predictions, get a wishlist

At this time of the year, pundits of all stripes seek to grab attention by appearing sage and wise by making predictions for the coming year. Heck, I've done it myself - and lived to regret such pretensions. This year I prefer to pen an enterprise wishlist because that's...

Tags: Innovation, Twitter, Enterprise, Fashion Victim, Hugh, Seesmic Twitter, Leadership, Social Networking, Strategy, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-26