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New rules: the mashup of business strategy and corporate comms

There is mashup of business strategy and corporate communications occurring that some companies are using to their advantage, while others are stumbling upon this potent combination by accident or intuition.Let me give you some examples of what I mean:-Dan Scheinman is head of Cisco's mergers and acquisitions, and also he...

Tags: Mr Nolan, comm, blogger, A-list

Blog posts 2006-03-21

Blogging is crucial to SAP's attack Oracle plan

Part 3 of interview with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's top strategists.Part 2 is here and it discusses SAP's competitive landscape."We believe we have at least a two year head start on Oracle, our main competitor. While Larry was occupied in his acquisition strategy we continued to grow, and we...

Tags: SAP AG, Mr Nolan

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Talking IT strategy with SAP's Jeff Nolan

...is Oracle-JBoss deal imminent?I'm running late for my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists, and a former venture capitalist at SAP Ventures. I pull into the car park of SAP Labs, located next to Xerox PARC, in Palo Alto, and the car park is full, but there...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG

Blog posts 2006-03-09

Additional Resources

Works of Ambrose Bierce. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial 10.1 (Mobile)

NovelsCobwebs From an Empty Skull Illustrated With Engravings By Dalziel BrothersThe Fiend's DelightNon FictionA Cynic Looks at LifeThe Devil's DictionaryWrite It RightAnthologiesFantastic FablesTales of Soldiers and Civilians also known as In the Midst of LifeCollectionsAshes of the BeaconBits of AutobiographyCan Such Things Be?The Fourth EstateFor the AhkoondJohn Smith, Liberator The...

Tags: Mobile, Officer, MobileReference, Man, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Works of Ambrose Bierce. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography & stories in the trial (Mobile)

NovelsCobwebs From an Empty Skull Illustrated With Engravings By Dalziel BrothersThe Fiend's DelightNon FictionA Cynic Looks at LifeThe Devil's DictionaryWrite It RightAnthologiesFantastic FablesTales of Soldiers and CiviliansCollectionsAshes of the BeaconBits of AutobiographyCan Such Things Be?The Fourth EstateFor the AhkoondJohn Smith, Liberator The Land Beyond the BlowNegligible TalesThe Ocean Wave "On...

Tags: Mobile, Officer, MobileReference, Man, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2009-09-08

Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley?

Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation? He makes many good points...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Innovation, Web, Venture Capital, Web 2.0, Leadership, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Financing Startups, Internet, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-04-28

Facebook for the Enterprise = Facebook

Guest post: AccMan blogger and deep thinker on enterprise software Dennis Howlett, offers his take on Facebook as an enterprise, not just consumer, play and patches together opinions from the Enterprise Irregulars:Facebook is a phenomenon that's capturing enterprisey attention. Jeff Nolan and Jason Wood, two of my Enterprise Irregular colleagues...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking, General, Enterprise 2.0

Blog posts 2007-06-26

SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle

[Part 2 of my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists. He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization within SAP that is sometimes referred to as the "Attack Oracle" group.] Part One is here...it discusses Oracle open source acquisitions... Creating a stack Will Oracle's open...

Tags: IBM Corp., middleware, Oracle Corp.

Blog posts 2006-03-10

Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement

Oracle's attempt to buy MySQL, and its acquisition of open-source database company Sleepycat, and its reported interest in JBoss, demonstrate an extremely aggressive attack on the open-source movement. The software giant could stop much of the open-software movement dead in its tracks through acquisitions, and stifle the rest of...

Tags: Oracle Corp., open source

Blog posts 2006-02-16