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Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...

Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-21

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I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01

A List: CRM(ish) Reading Worth it.

Sorry to have dropped off the radar for awhile. I was on the road.  First in Chicago having facilitated a customer event with Sword Ciboodle customers at the Union League Club - one that included a presentation by Brian Carey of Sears on what Sears is doing to improve the...

Tags: Sears Roebuck & Co., Social Media, Customer, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-09-28

10 data center paradoxes -- out of complexity comes simplicity

For every action there is an equally potent reaction, and that is certainly the case in IT developments we've been seeing as of late. Call them paradoxes if you will, and I just published some of them in an article for Database Trends & Applications on the...

Tags: Data Center, Paradox, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaign

Windows enthusiasts launch 'Boycott Opera' campaignYeah, ok, Apple too, along with Microsoft.I did forget Apple: I don't get that either. HansWhat is a "Windows Enthusiast"?This is something I don't understand. I've never understood how someone could get behind a for profit company like this. I could...

Tags: boycott, Microsoft Windows, Opera Software ASA, Windows Enthusiast

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Global Challenges of IT Automation

Automate manual IT processes related to batch scheduling, change management, configuration management, alerting, regulatory compliance, and trouble-ticket resolution to simplify IT, cut costs, and focus on IT innovation. To automate several operational tasks, the Dell IT group deployed BMC CONTROL-M for Distributed Systems and BMC BladeLogic Operations Manager, and is...

Tags: BMC Software Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Automation, It Management, Strategy, It service Management, Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture

From Chapter Two: The appliance computing culture*Standing Ovation*I finally understand your "Centralization of processing and de-centralization of control" shpeel. I think we are in alignment with the latter, but not the former. I believe in an Autonomic Distributed Architecture - where every *NIX machine client and server share the same...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, hardware, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

T-Mobile G1 arrives. Not quite a Google vs. Apple battle

T-Mobile G1 arrives. Not quite a Google vs. Apple battleVery good points. Google does not have to make a penny on the OS, and willhelp drive the cost of mobile internet devices as low as possible. Price sells, and we will eventually see some pretty cheap and pretty amazing phones.Haha!...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Apple Inc., T-Mobile, Linux, T-Mobile G1, software, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

Data center energy use

Data center energy useHmmmm....1. It's still a positive contribution, even if it is a small one. 2. And I think real enterprises are seriously eying desktops a real money sinks when it comes to power.3. The same argument could be applied to oil. We shouldn't...

Tags: Data centers, Operating systems, Servers, hardware, Data Center Energy, Sun Microsystems Inc., data center, Process Protection

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

GrandCentral+suffers+major+outage

GrandCentral+suffers+major+outageWhat say you Donnieboy????Must have been one of those Yahooguys DonnieBoy is going on about Google snaping up. ROFLRE: GrandCentral suffers major outagelooks like their SSL cert also expired on Friday the 15th.never heard of it until now. But when BG said "call person not phone"never heard of GrandCentral...

Tags: Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, Google Inc., outage, GrandCentral, phone

Discussion threads 2008-02-16

Laptops...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em

Laptops...can't live with 'em, can't live without 'emThe OLPC program sure has got the debates going about the utility of onecomputer for every student. It evened spawned the complimentary Classmate PC by Intel. One thing is for sure, we ARE going to have lots more options for schools that want...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Learning, One Laptop Per Child project, computer, laptop computer, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-16

Defragging Enterprise 2.0

Day two of the Defrag conference started with Harvard Business School Associate Professor Andrew McAfee's giving his latest twist on Enterprise 2.0, a term he is credited with inventing. For reference, he defines Enterprise 2.0 as "the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between...

Tags: McAfee Inc., Blog, Enterprise 2.0, Technology, Tie, Wiki, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Google's new mantra: Making the Web a better platform for all

"In the next year we will make a series of announcements and spend hundreds of millions on innovations and giving them away as open source," said Vic Gundotra, the new head of Google's developer programs. Google believes that innovation on the Web has been lacking. XML...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Idea, Goal, Microsoft Corp., Vic Gundotra, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Microsoft finally bows to EU antitrust measures

Microsoft finally bows to EU antitrust measuresROTFLMAO[i]If you can't compete whine to the courts.[/i]... and that's exactly what MS did. Alas, they didn't get what they wanted.Please. An Abacus competes with Windows and Wins!Windows is a horrible failure. After years of success (due to mis-information, illegal OEM contracts, unethical...

Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, strategy, Abacus, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Spyglass

Discussion threads 2007-10-22

Office 2.0: The future of applications

The application as we have known it is being redefined. During the Office 2.0 Conference, a panel of software vendors discussed the future of application and rise of Web-based applications with collaboration at the core. The panelists included Mark Bagley, vice president of technology at British...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Application, Office 2.0, Coghead, OpenSAM, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-07

SAP CEO: We are not arrogant, we are the market leader

SAP CEO Henning Kagermanns Sapphire keynote see ZDNet coverage of the event didnt reveal any surprises. SAP is riding high after a good quarter and feeling confident in its ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to establish enterprise SOA across its product line and enter the on demand application...

Tags: Software Infrastructure, SAP, Salesforce.com, SaaS, Oracle, NetSuite, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-04-25

Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'

Ballmer: Novell deal proves open source needs to 'respect IP rights'Funny that Novell was infringing...But Microsoft paid them 150 million for it ???? Don't companies normally sue when you infringe on their IP not give money to the infringer ???Balmer is his own worst enemy.[B]I would not anticipate...

Tags: Intellectual property, Balmer, open source, Novell Inc., IP, Steve Ballmer

Discussion threads 2007-02-16

Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0

Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0Vista vs WikiWell timed article. It's all happening in Massachusets, home of the 150 buck computer and of the Novell/Microsoft marriage, and of Open Source. Review of http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6139985.htmlwill demonstrate a notion of mash-ups which come from wiki implementations. Is Vista really a Wiki Me-too?...

Tags: Web 2.0, Wiki Me-too, Web, Wiki

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

What if Linux does infringe on Microsoft intellectual property?

What if Linux does infringe on Microsoft intellectual property?LuckilyThis is merely a US problem, and the more happens on this front in the US the less likely it is that software patents are implemented in the EU. Way to go MS...One interesting thought though. If the Linux vendors move to...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, intellectual property, Microsoft Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2006-11-24

Motorola CIO: Patricia Morrison - Transcript

Dan Farber: Patty thanks for joining me.Patricia Morrison: Great to be here Dan, thanks.Dan Farber: Now you’ve had a long career in IT, with stints at Proctor and Gamble, at Office Depot, and now you’re in Motorola, you’ve been there since July 2005. What are some of the big...

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Blog posts 2006-11-21