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Engineers are from Mars, Marketers are from Venus

If you're familiar with the relationship book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus' and work with technology, you may have noticed the fundamental differences in the way people think about software. In companies of all sizes, the challenges of working to keep existing...

Tags: Line Of Business, Information Technology, Friction, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-02-25

Will running start for health IT reform be a good thing?

There is a natural bit of friction in any Presidential transition. Will the AHIC Successor group resist the new Administration or follow its lead? Will the new Administration try to scrap AHIC Successor or adapt to its existance? by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Friction, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Secretary

Blog posts 2008-11-13

EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?

EMI/Amazon execs unplugged: Will Amazon's DRM-free downloads dent Apple?The things you don't seem to understandI'm willing to be Jobs has zero regrets about calling for no DRM. What you don't seem to understand is that Apple seems ready to compete solely on merit, on the quality of their products...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Digital rights management (DRM), EMI Group Plc., friction, Apple Inc., iPODS, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2007-05-17

Using Vista (or plan to use it)? Then try your hardest to run it as a non-administrative user first

In response to yesterdays blog about whether or not Vistas tightened security could mean additional friction in the Web experience that Vista users will encounter, my fellow blogger George Ou first responded that the average user doesnt default to a non-administrative user or "limited user account" LUA but also took...

Tags: General, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Mobile, Security

Blog posts 2007-02-23

E-commerce, meet your successor: Knowledge commerce

You don't hear much about e-commerce anymore. Yet the replacement vision has yet to be well defined. I think I'll take a stab at it. Seems to me we're now well on the way to knowledge commerce. The vision is that anyone, anytime, just about anywhere can get all...

Tags: knowledge, vision, friction, knowledge commerce, e-commerce

Blog posts 2006-02-17

PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction

PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive frictionBrown and Hagal on "productive friction"The principles and practices used by Toyota Motor have been described and thrashed around for at least two decades in business books and journals. Mr. Brown and Mr. Hagel appear to have taken that long to repackage...

Tags: productive friction, friction

Discussion threads 2005-04-12

Can friction spur innovation?

Business thinkers call for reinvention of IT strategyAt PC Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., scientist John Seely Brown and business strategist John Hagel talk to technology visionary Esther Dyson about "productive friction" and how it can harnessed to create value in IT.

Tags: Strategy, friction

Videos 2005-04-11

PC Forum: Moving from friction-free to productive friction

Day three of PC Forum started with a discussion with John Seely Brown and John Hagel about productive friction, which is the subject of their forthcoming book The Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends On Productive Friction and Dynamic Specialization.Seely Brown described differences between the way Toyota and Detroit car...

Tags: productive friction, friction

Blog posts 2005-03-22

Additional Resources

Simple Hydraulic Calculator 2.0 (Windows)

Powerful and affordable hydraulic calculation software for automatic fire sprinkler systems. SHC has all the features you need to enter system data, evaluate results, and produce professional hydraulic calculation reports. Calculations use the Hazen-Williams or Darcy-Weisbach friction loss formula. Wet, dry, preaction, tree, loop, gridded, and custom systems may all...

Tags: Window, Calculation, Microsoft Windows, Igneus, SHC, Construction

Software downloads 2009-11-16

Firefighter's Calculator (Mobile)

Firefighter's handy pocket calculator with reference sheets, made on request for firefighters who carry BlackBerries.Calculate water flow and total water supply needed.Calculate friction loss for nozzle and hose.Calculate required pump pressure for desired nozzle pressure at specified elevation, with specified nozzle friction factor, hose diameter, and length.Calculate nozzle pressure vs....

Tags: Firefighter, Mobile, lsPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-14

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

The maintenance renewal landscape

A small and therefore statistically dubious quarterly CIO survey undertaken by Kash Rangan's team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch published earlier this month makes revealing reading. On the general spending front, it should be no surprise that the survey believes CIO's are under spending relative...

Tags: Revenue, SAP AG, Maintenance Fee, Maintenance Revenue, Data Centers, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Team Management, Operational Accounting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-23

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

Amazon same day delivery squarely aimed at brick-and-mortar rivals

Amazon is using its distribution, information technology and shipping prowess to try and gain sales from brick-and-mortar retailers all the way up to Christmas. As Amazon continues to grow its rivals won't be Google and eBay as much as your local Wal-Mart, Target and Kohl's. Enter Amazon's...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Web Technology, Sales Force Management, E-business/E-Commerce, Sales, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Graviton Free for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)

Graviton Free for iPhone is an addictive skill and puzzle-based game that will test your nerves and intelligence with three difficulty levels. The underlying physics engine will make transporting the energy sphere a non-trivial task; acceleration, inertia and friction will add up to your list of foes. Things will even...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Laser, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-16

Driving Enterprise Software Financial & Business Value

While my day job is very much designing social business design with my colleagues at the Dachis Group, today we're announcing a loose federation of experts we've named 'enterprise advocates'. The intent, as outlined on the site, is to be advocates for the...

Tags: Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings? Whack the Community Manager

Spot onHi Oliver -Thanks for adding your perspective to this and for referencing our Community Maturity Model. I think you are spot on in calling out the fact that current initiatives and strategic intent are fairly unbalanced right now in terms of resources and ownership. Companies are recognizing...

Tags: COMPANIES, Collaboration Strategy Shortcomings, collaboration

Discussion threads 2009-10-05

How To Sell Collaborative Business Performance Internally

Sameer Patel and I are running a series of sessions during November's Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco entitled 'Selling the Case for Accelerating Business Performance with Enterprise Collaboration and 2.0 Technologies'. The challenge of getting that catalyst - the executive buy in...

Tags: Performance, Organization, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-29

If you liked Microsoft CodePlex you will love MySpace FoxForge

anything M$ touches becomes taintedand people would run away from it.But I don't get what's wrong about FoxNews, the most watched fair and balanced news chanel.Sorry but it works both waysSome people love Microsoft. They buy the XBox, they use MSN sites, they search at Bing. You need to admit...

Tags: MySpace, Microsoft Corp., FoxNews, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

MercuryMover 2.0.6 (Mac)

MercuryMover reduces the friction you feel when you use your Mac. With MercuryMover, you can move and resize windows on your Mac from the keyboard, positioning them precisely where you want. By shunning the slow and imprecise mouse, MercuryMover empowers you to work faster and play more.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Helium Foot Software, MercuryMover, Desktops, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-09-15