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It's Not All About the Killer App: Organization Design and Innovative People Strategy Are Critical to Achieving Financial Success in a Converging Market

Digital Convergence is creating opportunity - and confusion - in the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications TMT industries C-suite TMT executives who wish to compete in this space increasingly are looking to organizational convergence, merging, or forming external relationships alliances or partnerships to develop integrated products or services in order to...

Tags: Deloitte LLP, Financial, Organization Design, Killer Application, Leader, Convergence, Leadership, VOIP, Strategy, Management, Telecommunications, Networking

White papers 2008-08-04

Additional Resources

SOA Manifesto: Manes explains manifesto's aims

Of the 17 original authors of the SOA Manifesto including yours truly, Anne Thomas Manes was one of the most -- if not the most -- powerful and influential voice shaping the formation of the final document. Anne just posted her analysis of the Manifesto document, which...

Tags: Interoperability, SOA, Enterprise Service Bus, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Web Services, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-11-23

Why electronic health records have far to go

Look at Kaiser's ExperienceI agree. It took Kaiser a tightly integrated delivery system 10 years and $4 billion to get to their current state with health IT. It is unlikely to expect other delivery systems to do much better.I can tell you why it is taking so long.The...

Tags: Workforce management, training and certification, Tools & Techniques, HEALTHCARE, electronic health record, e-health, Learning, training

Discussion threads 2009-11-18

'The Purpose of a Business is to Create a Customer' - Peter Drucker Centenary

This month marks the centenary of Management guru Peter Drucker's birth, and the Harvard Business Review - the Vogue magazine of management fashions - has a terrific section devoted to his legacy and ideas this month. The paper version is a keeper. Drucker's...

Tags: Performance, Knowledge, Drucker, John Hagel, Knowledge Stock, Lloyd, Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-16

Trog Bar 2009.11.10 (Windows)

Seize control of your tasks, e-mail, and time with TROG: the Total, Relaxed Organization Guru. Designed by time management experts, this intelligent sidebar automatically prioritizes, manages, and coordinates your task list, e-mail, and calendars--recommending the best tasks to do next--so you spend your time being productive instead of organizing to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Priacta, Time Management, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-11-13

The role of data governance in the enterprise

According to analyst reports, the volume of enterprise data doubles every 18 months - and a lot information is inaccurate, duplicated or out-of-date and needs to be managed. Commentary - Every corporate decision and operation relies on the quality of the organization?s underlying data. ...

Tags: Data Quality, Data Governance, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, data management, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News, Navin Sharma Pitney Bowes Business Insight, Special to ZDNet News

News items 2009-11-12

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Implementing and Maintaining IM/Presence, Conferencing, and Telephony Using Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2

View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will learn to implement, maintain, and deploy Microsoft Office Communications Server OCS 2007 R2. This course covers the topologies supported by OCS 2007, and you will learn to design, implement and troubleshoot an OCS 2007 R2 solution, including implementing...

Tags: Telephony, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communications Server

Training 2009-11-01

Schedule24 Standard Staff Scheduling 4.0 (Windows)

Schedule24 Standard enables you to design, create and publish staff schedules, across your organization with ease. Make a real difference when staff scheduling with Schedule24 Standard. Remove the headache of maintaining staff shifts, help reduce labor costs and improve business operation. Schedule24 Standard provides the essential features you need to...

Tags: Staff, Intellicate, Schedule24 Standard, Workforce Management, Microsoft Windows, Human Resources, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-10-30

Kodak 5250

The ESP 5250 is Kodak's latest upgrade to last year's ESP 5 all-in-one AIO, which should be obvious from the almost identical design. Aside from looks, the printer does make improvements to print quality and most notably, output speed, but the printer still isn't perfect--it's missing an auto-document feeder and...

Tags: Scanners, Printers, Monitors & displays, Eastman Kodak Co., ESP 5, ESP, scanner, printer

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Jive hits SBS 4: SharePoint in Rear View Mirror

After last week's announcement of SharePoint 2010 by Microsoft, with a scheduled arrival date of second quarter 2010, Jive Software announced their 'Social Business Software 4' yesterday at their San Francisco 'Jiveworld' event. It was interesting to contrast the huge Vegas Microsoft unveiling...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Mobile, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-28

Learning from the weak signals of failure

Sometimes a refusal to listen . . .Sometimes it's a refusal of top level management to listen to lower level employees as well. NASA was notorious for having unsatisfied employees who knew key facts about issues, but ignored them, even if the employee was proactive about trying to contact somebody...

Tags: Team management, weak signal

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Facebook launches confusing, counterintuitive, broken UI

Facebook problemsThanks for laying out the problems clearly like this. I and other I know are having the same issues. Also SelectiveTwitter isn't working today, so updates made on Twitter aren't showing up on FB.Hopefully they'll get it working as expected (chronological order!) by next week.RE: Facebook launches...

Tags: Social networking, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

Samsung Moment (Sprint)

In case you haven't noticed, the Google Android dam has broken. For almost a year HTC was the only manufacturer to offer handsets with the operating system, but in the past month, Motorola and Samsung almost fell over each other to offer Android smartphones of their own. Moto gave us...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, slider mechanism, Sprint Communications, Samsung Moment, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-22

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooks

O.o[i]Looks like Michael Dell is pushing for people to upgrade to the newest Dell laptops/desktops and Windows 7.[/i]He has to. It's how they make money.RE: Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooksNetbooks are about travel and portability. Am I going to give up my quadcore desktop? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 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

I've joined the Dachis Group

As the worlds of internal enterprise, small, medium sized businesses and partner collaboration networks evolve, an increasing level of intersection with the social media world - the conversation with end users - is inevitable. The implications of this are enormous. While many people can grasp the immediate...

Tags: Social Media, Vision, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-10-01

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