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- Houston we have a problem
- Regular readers don't need me to repeat the oft held view that enterprise wide application implementation is often slow, cumbersome and expensive. But are we really getting anything out of it at the end of the day other than some marginal cost efficiency? Rather than throw brickbats at any particular...
- Tags: Customer Service, Houston, Sam Lawrence, CIOs/CTOs, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- The trouble with Groundswell
- Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff at industry analysts Forrester are bagging a lot of positive blog hype over their new book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. In my view the hype levels buzzing aeround the book make certain enterprise software claims seem tame. This from David...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Blog, Groundswell, Sam Lawrence, Marketing Research, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Grading Gartner and Forrester
- Sam Lawrence has been a client of both Gartner and Forrester since January and has provided an interesting report card of the two analyst firms. Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software, a collaboration and community software maker, had the following key takeaways in a blog post: ...
- Tags: Analyst, Gartner Inc., Forrester Research Inc., Sam Lawrence, Account Manager, Sales Strategy, Corporate Governance, Sales Force Management, C/C++, Sales, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Productivity software as games?
- In a thinly veiled swipe at Microsoft, Sam Lawrence, CMO at Jive Software challenges readers to question why productivity software is so clunky: Shouldn’t productivity software make us want to work? I mean, it’s goal is to make us and our company more productive. Given that, the most goal-oriented...
- Tags: Software, Problem, Enterprise, Productivity Software, Sam Lawrence, Social Networking, Tools & Techniques, Games, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Personal Technology, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
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- Sex, geeks and Blackbox Republic
- The first time you meet Sam Lawrence, ex-CMO of Jive Software you just know he's a specially talented marketing person. He's a creative which for geeks should be an immediate affinity thing. Today, he, along with co-founder April Donato came out of stealth mode with Blackbox...
- Tags: Community, Oliver, Collaboration, Groupware, Investment, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Sex Positive Socializing Online Arrives
- If you're 'textually active' online looking for relationships on social networking and dating sites, finally you have a new option. Despite all the hoopla around the brave new world of Facebook, match.com et al, it's actually the same old industrial scale meat market for most people....
- Tags: Facebook, Collaboration, Network, Web 2.0, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Jive talking: Easy to underestimate effort required to get people engaged
- Oliver Marks and Larry Dignan both have a take on Jive Software's Social Business Suite 3.0 announcement. As Oliver says, we talked at length about the topic last evening. On the one hand this is unquestionably a brave move. Carving out a new category, complete with TLA...
- Tags: Question, Change Management, AJAX, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Sales Tools, Sales Force Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Human Resources, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- The battle for the social enterprise: Jive makes its move
- Jive Software wants to be the backbone for all things collaborative in the enterprise, but it could run ultimately into tough competition from the likes of Microsoft, Oracle and IBM. On Tuesday, Jive launched Social Business Software SBS 3.0, a suite it calls an enterprise class armada...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Social Business Software 3.0, Jive Social Business Software 3.0, Oliver Marks, Sales Strategy, Collaboration, Groupware, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-10
- All that Jive: Putting the 'social' into business software
- Jive Software announced the latest iteration of their Clearspace product today, and it has expanded significantly in size and scope. From origins as a forums and instant messenger vendor, Jive in 2006 launched 'Clearspace', a single application with wikis, blogs, discussions, instant messaging,...
- Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Collaboration, Business Software, SBS 3.0, Jive SBS 3.0, Tools & Techniques, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Profiting from Contagion
- With the global financial contagion continuing to spread today, forcing the 'invisible hand of the market' to roll up multiple titans of industry into single defensive units against the credit crunch, the frothier end of the tech scene parties on. The fall tech conference season is...
- Tags: Innovation, Train, Financial, Compartment, Dennis Howlett, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- Getting on board with collaboration tools
- At the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, tech executives discuss how they trained clients and employees to be more comfortable using online collaboration tools. Speakers include Greg Biggers of Chordiant, Len Devanna of EMC, Michael Pusateri of Disney, and moderator Sam Lawrence of Jive Software.
- Tags: Board, Online Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Collaboration, Productivity, Office 2.0, Jive Software, EMC
- Videos 2008-09-08
- Spot the deliberate mistake
- Courtesy of Sam Lawrence Original image at Skitch by Dennis Howlett
- Tags: Courtesy, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0?
- Enterprise 2.0 looking more like 1.0?A long way to goDennis, You will continue to get press releases with "XX, the leader in ... " for a couple of reasons:They are easy for the junior PR person to write, easy for the PR manager to approve, easy for the company executive...
- Tags: Public relations, PR Manager, Enterprise 2.0
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- Time to blow up the software industry
- Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Openness
- I've been privileged to be around some amazing people recently, first at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston and now this week at SuperNova, Wharton Business school's conference, which this year explored "how decentralization and pervasive connectivity are changing our world". My take away word of the...
- Tags: Talent, Mozilla Firefox, Collaboration, British Telecommunications, Openness, JP Rangaswami, Sam, Web Browsers, Groupware, Workforce Management, Leadership, Security, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Jive's Sam Lawrence on Enterprise 2.0: "It's a buzzword" [podcast]
- This week's Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston featured a host of small companies hoping to sell sexy, cool software to large companies. Many of these vendors won't survive because they don't understand how the enterprise buys, uses, and deploys applications. In this podcast, I asked Jive Software's chief marketing officer,...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Sam, Podcasts, Internet, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Enterprise 2.0: my $0.02
- Enterprise 2.0 is over for another year and despite a poor start, the event turned out well. I attribute the poor start to the performance of Oracle and Microsoft: two of Jevon MacDonald's 'drag queens.' Both seemed tired, dated and out of touch with the mood of the new generation...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Social Computing, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, IBM Corp., Groupware, Social Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-13
- Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents
- It's not often I find myself fundamentally disagreeing with Sam Lawrence. He's a smart guy with a great marketing head. But on this post he's over-reaching in my opinion. His basic argument says this: The big IT vendors aren’t taking social software seriously. They can’t. Not even if they...
- Tags: Austin Ventures, Channel Management, Dennis Howlett, IBM Corp., Internet, Marketing, Oracle Corp., Sam, SAP AG, Software, Value Chain, Vendor, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social mediaMaybe the root problem is......The seemingly total inability to spell or proof read? This blog is unreadable on its face apart from the blather of whatever the argument might be -- "argingerging," "ligs anogs," "chaineasinleasing hhuge," "Onoblem. Onlat can retrocan." Is this insider...
- Tags: poverty, social media, Enterprise 2.0, collaboration, incoherence, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-04-16
- The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media
- Over the last few months I've been listening with growing alarm at the claims made for enterprise 2.0 and social media. Or rather the lack of claims coupled to an incredible amount of posturing. What concerns me greatly is that in the mad rush to all things X2.0, we seem...
- Tags: DNA, Network, Social Media, Enterprise 2.0, CXO, Social Networking, Biotechnology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
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