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Meeting up with Dave Winer, in NYC

I met up with “a self-described male, native of New York, resident of Berkeley. 51 years old. 6 foot 2 inches tall. Etc. Having participated in the development of RSS,” tonight at the “Wollmann Lounge” in The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in downtown Manhattan.The “self-described...

Tags: discussion leader, Culture, Blogs

Blog posts 2006-12-28

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Canadians get a taste of American medical system with IMS Health buy

Oh the ironyJust another ironic investment made on behalf of Canadians over the years. As far as I know CPP is not investing using an ethical or green model, so there are probably lots of examples of very "un-Canadian" companies receiving investment via CPP.Not sure what your point is,...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, IMS Health Inc., CPP, Dana, drug company, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

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

Oracle OpenWorld 2009 - Social CRM Technology Rears an Actual Head

I am almost always in awe of Oracle OpenWorld.  The scope of this conference is spectacular. Can you imagine an event that the attendance is down to 37,000 attendees?  Actually, that puts me in awe of their event planners more than even the event. How in the name of whoever...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., CRM, Anthony Lye, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-10-14

Fortune 500 Series: How EMC used social media to recruit, re-brand, rebuild

EMC can best be described as an entity. Not only in the Fortune 500, the infrastructure information provider was recognized by Fortune as one of the 10 most admired companies for product and service quality. This success didn't come easy to the giant, which needed to significantly rebuild its business...

Tags: Social Networking, Brand, Social Media, EMC Corp., Storage, Hardware, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-08-11

SAP unplugged: Vishal Sikka and John Schwarz on deck

Jeff Nolan and Vinnie Mirchandani have done a sterling job in reporting our meeting Vishal Sikka, SAP's CTO and John Schwarz, executive board member in charge of BusinessObjects. To my eternal shame, I was asleep for most of the meeting with Vishal having completely miscalculated the effects of jetlag, turning...

Tags: SAP AG, Leadership, Financial Planning, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Windows 7 RTM - Get the facts

Windows 7 RTM - Get the facts[b]Q:[/b] Can I stay with Windows XP for now?[b]Q:[/b] Can I stay with Windows XP for now? - 7/22/2009[b]A:[/b] Yes you can. There's no compelling reason to make a switch to W7 even though we want you to spend the money.=========================[b]Or, Consider the...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows 7 RTM, Microsoft Windows, Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Time to Put A Stake in The Ground on Social CRM

The debate and discussion about what defines Social CRM a.k.a. CRM 2.0 vs. its traditional parent has been going on for about 2 years pretty regularly and started, according to thought leader Graham Hill almost a decade before that. Personally, I'm done defining it and am moving...

Tags: Customer, Business, Tool, CRM, Social CRM, SCRM Business Strategy, Co-creation, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for Iran

Assassination of Neda, played and replayed on the Web, marks turning point for IranIranians should demand an American invasionIf some Iranians would petition us, we should folow through with the operation Iran's freedom.This operation will be a lot cheaper and more successfull than the Iraq's freedom in 2003.But Obama is...

Tags: Leadership, Neda, Obama, Web

Discussion threads 2009-06-23

CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT

Guest post: TechRepublic's Patrick Gray believes that IT leaders still looking to find a seat at the C-level table might gain that influential position by taking a share of the responsibility for the failures that led to financial crisis. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's...

Tags: CIO, Financial, Information Technology, Financial Crisis, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Sapphire 09 Live: Smart business plans, moral benchmarks

SAP is always a bit of a conundrum to me. They have extraordinarily talented people, an incredibly deep product portfolio that they are always extending, more often than not make good acquisitions that take some time but work out all in all, and seem to be actually dedicated to transforming...

Tags: Sustainability, SAP AG, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-05-13

ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalition

ObamaCare opponents scramble to build a winning coalitionObamaCare sneaks a foot in the doorExisting insurance companies and health care providers worry about the government plan because it is the pre-ordained winner on the path to single payer, not because a government plan would be inherently superior.Any Democrat worth their credentials...

Tags: Vertical industries, Healthcare reform, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, game plan, health care, single payer, ObamaCare, ObamaCare opponent

Discussion threads 2009-05-12

How to Avoid Collaboration Traps, Create Unity and Get Results

Collaboration - How Leaders Avoid the Traps, Create Unity, and Reap Big Results Morten T. Hansen Harvard Business Press ISBN 978-1-4221-1515-2 The great power of Morten Hansen's book 'Collaboration', the result of fifteen years of research into internal collaboration in...

Tags: Hansen, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Rowing Cable’s Canoe: An ‘Ecological Play’

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cable operators are regional. They want to bring in national ad dollars. And they want to take ad dollars back from targeted ad-sellers online like market leader Google. So the six biggest players â€" Comcast, Time Warner...

Tags: Advertisement, Canoe Ventures, David Verklin, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-03

Microsoft shouldn't buy Twitter

Microsoft shouldn't buy Twitternot on TwitterHi, Patrick. No, I am still not on Twitter. The day I feel like I'm missing something by not being on it, I will sign up.Thanks! MJRE: Microsoft shouldn't buy TwitterIs Mary J. Foley actually on Twitter ? Patrick, A fan from Belgiumhttp://twitter.com/itworksYes MS should...

Tags: Channel management, Twitter, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-04-03

News to know: Microsoft's reversal, Obama's policies, MySpace, Apple netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft lets laid-off employees keep overpayments Sam Diaz: Microsoft backpedals on severance payback ...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Citrix Systems Inc., Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, MySpace, HL7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-02-24

Tech and the global supply chain â€" Who’s the MVP for work over the past ten years?

At AMR Research we constantly study the question of applying technology to supply chain to make it work better.  Lots of old-school Lean freaks like to believe process is everything, sometimes implying that technology doesn’t really matter.  I dispute this.  Neither works well without the other, but it is certainly...

Tags: Supply Chain, I2 Technologies Inc., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Don’t Bet On The Calculator. Bet On The Thinker.

Sure, Goldman Sachs thinks it knows best or it wouldn’t have created its own digital system for analyzing financial risks it faces, aka its SecDB database and security pricing system. But that is not what has protected it from making the kind...

Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Management, Marketing, Pricing, Strategy, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Google makes mistake, internet goes crazy

Google makes mistake, internet goes crazyHow does it feel to be an apologist for Google?Just wondering.When all of your eggs are in one basket...Expect problems when you are big brother google and all ofyour eggs are in one basket...Kind of like socialism.Microsoft makes a mistake, Garett goes crazyand the story...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Internet, worm, Google Inc., http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13615-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=6

Discussion threads 2009-02-01

Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didn

Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didnMust Have Been A Windows NetworkTypical boot camp MCSE mentality.RE: Fannie Mae IT contractor indicted for planting malware; Mortgage giant didnThey must implement a HR Policy that require that every employee or contractor must not have root access to their...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Strategy, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Fannie Mae, Fannie Mae IT, Fannie Mae IT contractor, information technology, malware

Discussion threads 2009-01-29