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- Refers to an entity that is currently in power. For example, in politics, the "incumbent senator" is the person who holds that office today. An "incumbent company" is...
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- Builder Reduces Turnover by 46% Using PeopleAnswers
- The homebuilding process requires a variety of specialized skills to manage a home's construction from purchase to completion. Employees engage the customer at various stages: Sales Representatives, Land Managers, Mortgage Professionals, Construction Managers and Customer Care Associates. In filling these positions, PeopleAnswers offers three major advantages. To transition this builder's...
- Case studies 2009-02-10
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Does open source make business decisions political?
- Does open source make business decisions political?ThisFirst off we talking about a 'public' service here. The BBC is funded by public money political and is being accused of not fulfilling its charter for equal access for all political. Whilst the BBC needs to get 'best value' they must service the...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-16
- The incumbent's conundrum
- Clayton Christensen's book The Innovator's Dilemma explains in detail why established market leaders get caught out by disruptive innovations. What you might call the incumbent's conundrum is knowing when to flip from supporting your existing successful products to investing in the technologies that will one day make them obsolete. ...
- Blog posts 2005-11-09
- Here's why I'm cynical about the Vonage-SBC-BellSouth deal
- Here's why I'm cynical about the Vonage-SBC-BellSouth dealit's coming true...my prediction of the demise of VoIP-as-service. The regulators will kill it, and the incumbents will kill it.Unfortunately, the IP-to-PSTN bridge is the only thing that will extend the life of the PSTN, so the incumbents, by forestalling competition, are...
- Discussion threads 2005-05-19
- Another view on telco vs. pure-play VoIP
- Tom's Hardware Guide is as authoritative a technocentric chronicler of telecommunications and computing devices I have seen in quite awhile.Today, they take a studied look at how the telco incumbents vs. pure-play VoIP phone company struggle will play out. They quote IDC analyst William Stofega saying in effect that although...
- Blog posts 2005-01-14
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- Chrome OS: More questions than answers?
- And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Conference energy levels
- Coming to Dreamforce has been a revelation. The news was dominated by Chatter but that only tells a fraction of the real story. As I sat in the media room chatting sic to an old buddy it occurred to me this was a conference that annoyed for all...
- Blog posts 2009-11-20
- 40 years ago the Internet was born - now it devalues everything it touches
- you are devaluing your proffesionshame on you.internet is one of the greatest invention in human history.Establishing walled islands on the InternetThe Internet is like a huge river, or better yet, sea, that allows users to move from small island to small island web application, to find the things they care...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-29
- A Net Neutrality Solution: Opinions Wanted
- First thoughts"the incumbents fought it tooth and nail"Same thing happened in the last 4 industrial revolutions!I'm broadly in favour of your improvements ... with a few caveats ... and will look at the 2 papers you plugged, sorry referenced ;-)"Users should be concerned that the Internet services they pay for...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Ballmer: Zune services coming to 'next release' of Windows Mobile
- As if Windows Mobile wasn't slow or bloated enough already...not much left to say. Windows Mobile is toward the horse's heiney of mobile platforms, right now and I doubt Apple or RIM will screw up their products just to let proven crapware back in... In a socialized world,...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-23
- Firefox's crossroads: Cutting-edge or mainstream?
- Chrome burst onto the scene?More like tiptoed in and took a seat in the corner. The only thing Chrome brings to the table is a little bit more speed. They have to do better than that! Just a little bit more speed, eh?When Chrome launched no other browser...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Porn stars and journalists share the same troubles caused by the Internet
- Same problem, same answer then ...... slim the industry down by two orders of magnitude leaving only the high quality content.You haven't answered my question yet: "why is slimming a digital industry down a problem?". (Remember there have been 4 previous technology revolutions all leading to improved quality of life...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-10
- Seven ways companies go wrong with SOA
- Remember, SOA is a journey, not a quick overnight fix. It's a transformative process that your organization will follow for the long run. A few years back, I put together a list of where companies appeared to be steering in the wrong direction in terms of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- Google's response to AT&T's charges on Google Voice
- How about fixing the first articleso we know what you are talking about.Torn...I can certainly appreciate the arguments being trotted out by Google. They seem, however, to want to have the best of both worlds...acting as a de-facto "common carrier" while not actually being one. Given this, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-28
- Cost - Benefit Analysis of an RFID Asset Tracking System
- This paper outlines the cost-benefit analysis of using Ultra High Frequency UHF Radio Frequency Identification RFID technology in an asset-tracking application. To facilitate the analysis, RFID will be compared against the incumbent technology, bar-coding. An experiment comparing these two technologies was conducted, and the findings from this experiment are further...
- White papers 2009-09-02
- Rimini Street ups the support ante: expands international support
- Rimini Street has announced the global expansion of its tax and regulatory compliance services to more than 100 countries, beefing up its expertise in the process with the appointment of Greg Prowe as group vice president, global tax and regulatory strategy and research. From the release: “Greg...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Telecoms don't want broadband bucks with strings attached
- How would you like $4.7 million to build out broadband to rural America? If you're Verizon or AT&T, the answer is clearly, "no, thanks." The Washington Post reports that none of the three major telecoms is interested in taking those funds. The reason is simple enough: they...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Five reasons to fire your system integrator
- Although consultants make easy scapegoats when projects go wrong, there are definitely times when you should replace the incumbent. Here are five good reasons to get rid of your system integrator. by Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
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