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Forrester's George Colony: Customers are in control

Forrester's George Colony: Customers are in controlCould be speaking directly to RIAA or MPAA[i]"remove artificial, archaic restrictions that are designed to protect somebody's 50-year-old business model."[/i]

Tags: George Colony, Forrester Research Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-08

Forrester's George Colony: Customers are in control

Forrester CEO George Colony has some advice for CEOs about customer relationship management and the correct attitude to win friends and influence enemies in the corporate world.It's now a two-way conversation. Listen, respond and talk intelligently. Stop dictating to customers. It's your customers, not you, who have the power.In a...

Tags: Web, Customer, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-08

Forrester CEO: Sun's plan is bold but has potholes

Fresh off a visit with Sun execs, Forrester Research CEO George Colony thinks he has handle on the company's comeback strategy as well as the potholes that might trip it up. In addition to Sun's continued fixation on technology an obsession that Colony warns could leave Sun vulnerable to Dell,...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., George Colony

Blog posts 2004-09-21

Additional Resources

More optimistic views on the future of enterprise software

With SAP’s decision to forgo its 2009 guidance a paradoxical beacon of truth in a falling market, I have decided to return from vacation a day early and get busy trying to gauge the market for enterprise software in the coming year. It’s not an easy task, needless to day,...

Tags: Technology Sector, Enterprise Software, Recession, Dot-com, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-10-30

Tech economy: Is the forecast glass half-empty or half-full?

Talk about a doom-and-gloom outlook for the tech economy. Tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis  - founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, Weblogs, and Mahalo.com - has fired off a pretty glass-half-empty message to startups, via his e-mail subscription list. It's been about a week since Calacanis announced layoffs...

Tags: Tech, Blog, Cell Phone Penetration, Tech Topic, Blogging, E-mail, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Business imperatives theme dominates Forrester's IT Forum conference opener

Forrester Research, the Cambridge, Mass. market research and analysis firm, kicked off its influential IT Forum conference today in Las Vegas with a keynote address by founder and Chairman George Colony on CEO success imperatives. What the success imperatives do you have? Colony asked a series of...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, Forrester Research Inc., Leadership, Strategy, Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Thoughts on Web 2.0, etc.

Web 2.0, among other things, would include a more advanced client side development model than the current HTML / CSS / Javascript approach. Traditional web programming technologies, though powerful, were not designed for the kinds of applications we build today, and hence, can be complicated to create.The problem with new...

Tags: U.S., Web, Web 2.0, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Would you give up wireless services to save the bees? How about to save money?

Something strange is happening to honey bees. They seem to be getting lost while they are away from their hives, leaving queen bees and immature workers alone, without food, in a syndrome called "Colony Collapse Disorder." The thing is, these insects are the ultimate in social producers, pollinating plants and...

Tags: Business &, Technology

Blog posts 2007-04-23

Photos: At the Toy Fair, lots and lots of Legos

The heavily guarded Lego camp arranges its blocks into Spongebob and George Lucas, dinosaurs and sharks, and a Martian colony.

Tags: LEGO Co., colony, photograph

Image galleries 2007-02-12

How to make Bill Gates' head explode

Forrester analysts have always had a reputation for attention-grabbing images. Here's George Colony, the analyst firm's CEO, explaining in an article in this week's Economist why online and open-source business models are giving Microsoft such a hard time these days: "Bill...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., software

Blog posts 2006-04-03

Why not fund on-demand with ... money?

I can't let John Carroll's latest posting about ad-supported software pass without comment, because he repeats a misconception right in the middle of it that is really central to why I get so steamed up on this topic. Here's the bit that made me fume: ...

Tags: Net, advertisement

Blog posts 2005-11-21