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Empowerment as a Growth Strategy

There is a strong technology element to employee empowerment. All levels of management and customer-facing employees need to be empowered to serve the company on one hand, and the customer on the other. Databases and customer relationship management solutions must enable these types of "ad hoc," collaborative interactions to...

Tags: Strategy, Oracle Corp., Empowerment, CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software

White papers 2009-01-01

The real power of the PC

After selling his company, Brazilian entrepreneur Rodrigo Baggio turned his attention to using technology as a means of economic empowerment for the underprivileged.

Tags: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Management, News, ina fried, south america, microsoft, google, pc, schools

Videos 2008-08-27

iTarot 1.0 (Mobile)

Get the ancient wisdom of Tarot delivered daily on your iPhone or iPod. This program provides you affirmation, empowerment and reveals your hidden strengths.

Tags: Mobile, Empowerment, Astrology.com, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-07-23

Additional Resources

The Enterprise 2.0 Value Propositions Agenda

Time is Money: Where's the Beef? The now biannual US 'Enterprise 2.0' conference is a wrap, but disappointingly there is still little business understanding of what the term means or what the value propositions and benefits are. The general 2.0 suffix is well understood by technology...

Tags: Collaboration, Enterprise 2.0, Conference, E2.0, Susan Scrupski, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Enterprise Irregulars Join Social CRM Fray

I'd say that the headline is a bit of an understatement or maybe even a misstatement by me.  Let me tell you why. If your life preference is to cower under bedcovers, then you might not have heard of the Enterprise Irregulars EI.   They are a group of iconoclastic, often...

Tags: Blog, Customer, CRM, Ross, Customer Insight, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Sales, Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Handicapping the CRM field: Oracle leads the pack (but the race is tight)

ZDNet Australia has handicapped the field of customer relationship management software and it appears that Oracle's on-demand and on-premise suite comes out on top with a score for 4.5 on a scale of 5. SAP and Salesforce scored a 4 rating overall on the same scale. ...

Tags: Oracle Corp., CRM, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Cloud vs sand: Google vs Microsoft

Cloud vs sand: Google vs MicrosoftGeeks make it right.Marketers make it look right.Which one do you want behind your business?Google may look like Sun in 20 years but then Microsoft will look like DRI. I can imagine a similar report with far different findings to be release from Microsoft....

Tags: Data centers, E-mail servers, Now Let, Who-ever, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., server

Discussion threads 2009-05-05

What

WhatExplaining IT behavior, what we're missingJust a guess but I think it has a lot to do with what you've talked about earlier, the social dimension to all of this. I would add that there's a cultural factor.Having been a part of the Windows world where I occasionally visit, I...

Tags: Operating systems, Unix, UNIX Security, modality, PC, developer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

From Windows to Unix: a mental journey

Changing from Windows to Unix isn't so much about changing technology as it is about changing your thinking. From the 1920s through the wintel detour data processing has evolved in a consistent fashion - and from 1960s discussions on user empowerment to the latest OpenSolaris builds, so has Unix. Notice,...

Tags: Information Technology, Data-processing, Microsoft Windows, Troubles, zOS, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-01-24

Transforming to Win

As a result of globalization, demographics, technology and regulation, the world is a flatter place. Banks are rethinking strategies for both business and technology. They are maximizing globalization, innovation, agility and diversity while minimizing costs and risks to compete and win in the new, flat world. To do so, banks...

Tags: Bank, Globalization, Financial Services, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-01-15

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammersI could have told them that for free.They needed a study and a report to tell them that The big 3 are little more than Spam sewers these days?Like I keep saying...my mail servers would be shut down if they were spewing spam....

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail providers, spam, PGP Corp., e-mail, Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again

With or without McColo, spam volume increasing againProposalLet's start sending all paper mail with no envelopes.Why not? What's that you say? Privacy? Hmmm. That's reasonable.Then, maybe we should send emails enclosed in 'envelopes', Yes?What a great idea! Envelopes. (I kid.)Seriously, What is obvious to me is...

Tags: Spam, Domain names, e-mail, spammer

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

Consumer Watchdog overreacts about Gmail

Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailRE: Consumer Watchdog overreacts about GmailThis group sounds like they would be horrified to find out that e-mail doesn't go straight from one computer to another, but hops along several computers. Any computer between point A and point B can read your message. E-mail is...

Tags: E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., e-mail, Consumer Watchdog, Google Gmail

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fears

ExpressScripts faces sum of personal health record fearsAnd better yet[i]But, as Jack Ryan teaches in Tom Clancy's spy novels, it is much wiser in the long run to face these threats down and counter than to give in to blackmail.[/i]And better still to have no secrets worth blackmailing.Anyone who commits...

Tags: Channel management, Web site development, PHR, personal health record fear, ExpressScripts, personal health record, Web

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

SPAM and the free lunch

SPAM and the free lunchSIMPLE SOLUTION: Mandatory email server registration!(1) Get rid of "Reply-to:" tags.(2) Mandatory email server registration using credit cards, at yearly rate $2~3 dollars.This will make spammers impossible to operate without being caught.What SPAM is that?During the height of the "bad old days" of spam, I got...

Tags: Cyberthreats, spam

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Sub-prime and the other seven deadly bubbles . . .

Now that the distraction from the election is gone, I wish there was another distraction out there because we still have a way to go in regards to the financial crisis. There seems to be a widespread perception that the mess caused by the sub-prime bubble has...

Tags: Financial, Derivatives, Bubble, Philanthropia, Financial Services, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Dawn Foods Uses PeopleAnswers to Achieve 53% Turnover Reduction

In order to effectively service customers around the globe, Dawn takes pride in the empowerment of employees to be highly effective and drive productivity within multiple segments of the company. The need to find more of these high-performing candidates early in the hiring process lead Dawn to select the PeopleAnswers...

Tags: Hiring, Food, PeopleAnswers, Dawn, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Case studies 2008-11-07

BI Crystal Ball â€" Next Gen BI May Be Closer Than You Think

Most modern large enterprise Business Intelligence BI tools are very robust and feature rich these days. Up until a few years ago BI users could blame vendors for most of their BI ills. This is getting harder and harder to do. Many of the BI tools, especially the ones reviewed...

Tags: Application, User Empowerment, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Boris Evelson

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Blueprint for Collaborative Application Architecture

Industry trends are converging on the next generation of applications. Users both inside and outside the enterprise are demanding more empowerment. Business decision makers require more and better access to real- or near-time information. The boundaries of the enterprise grow porous as globalization marches on. A next-generation architecture is required...

Tags: SOA, Mashup, Industry Trend, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Globalization, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Strategy, Management, Internet

White papers 2008-10-01