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Technology Adoption and Encouraging Use
[2010-07-26] This is part four in a multi-part series on how Intuit is implementing Enterprise 2.0 within their organization. Part one covered the business drivers of Enterprise 2.0, part two looked at some of the change management issues of Enterprise 2.0, part three explored cultural and organization shifts, and today we're going to take a look at technology adoption within Intuit and how they were able to encourage use of E2.0 platforms and tools.
Real-time Collaboration Environment For Enterprise 2.0
[2010-07-12] Novell's latest collaboration offering, Pulse, provides a real-time collaboration environment for the enterprise that brings authoring, communication and social messaging together in a single secure solution. Built to work alone or in concert with existing collaboration tools, Novell Pulse uses the Google Wave Federation Protocol to allow seamless integration with other co-editing and collaboration tools, such as Google Wave, as well as new extensions that third parties can build on top of the Novell Pulse platform.
Building A Social Media Policy
[2010-06-21] I recently received a review copy of the Forrester report, The CIO's Guide to Establishing a Social Media Policy. There were a number of things I like about this report. First, they offered guidelines rather than best practices. They covered the issues to address and the questions to ask. They offered examples instead of definitive answers, recognizing that the final answers are context dependent. This aligns with the post I recently did, Are There Best Practices for Enterprise 2.0 Adoption?, building on Luis Suarez and Oscar Berg, Luis, Oscar, and I said no.
CIOs Focused On Cost Savings
[2010-06-07] Organizations across the financial services, healthcare, retail and public sectors are failing to align their IT and business priorities, according to a survey by market research company Vanson Bourne and sponsored by Micro Focus.
For CIOs Too Much Control Can Be Counter Productive
[2010-05-24] I recently attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium for the second time. It is an annual one-day conference, held on the MIT campus. This is my second set of notes. I attended a session, Solving the CIO Paradox, led by led by Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief, CIO Magazine. Panel members include: Anne Marguiles, CIO Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bill Brown, former CIO, Iron Mountain, James McGlennon, Liberty Mutual, and Tom Pyke, former CIO U.S. Department of Energy.
Deciding Between Best-of-Breed Applications Or an Integrated Suite
[2010-05-10] Here are several excerpts from a very informative post by Austin Merritt, Vice President at Software Advice, Best-of-Breed or Integrated Suite? 10 Questions to Consider. Software Advice offers a free service to help organizations to find the right (industry-specific) software for running their business; check it out!
How To Make Sense Out Of Real-time Data
[2010-04-27] Jeff Jonas of IBM had a great post on Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others recently in which he discussed his "obsession with real-time sensemaking systems". Now I like the phrase and, in the context of real-life, it is clear what it means. But for a business, what does it mean?
The Importance Of Good Business Agility
[2010-04-12] Johan den Haan had a great post on Business Agility through Model Driven Development in which he had 3 things important to driving business agility:
Federal CIOs Rank Concerns, Suggest Responses
[2010-03-29] Federal CIOs seem to have a lot on their minds these days, and these aren't unimportant, I-hope-the-budget-allows-for-fancy-new-keyboard concerns. Fortunately, TechAmerica and Grant Thornton found while surveying some CIOs that they've thought of some effective initiatives, too.
Using Social Media To Build Customer Prominence
[2010-03-15] Perhaps the most difficult aspects of Social Media to embrace are the changes in our behavior and overall philosophy it necessitates in order to earn relevance and ultimately prominence in consumer hearts, minds, and markets.
Joomla! Gains More Ground In The Business Arena
[2010-03-01] Open Source Matters, Inc. (OSM), the not-for-profit organization that supports the Joomla! Project, today announced that Joomla!, the industry's leading open source content management system (CMS), has been downloaded more than 15 million times from JoomlaCode. In addition, the Community Oversight Committee has elected several new board members including Steve Burge, Javier Gomez, Marko Milenovic, Jacques Rentzke, Robert Deutz and Akarawuth Tamrareang.
Accenture Launches Risk Management Service
[2010-02-15] Accenture has launched a global Risk Management consulting service to help companies better identify, manage and mitigate risks.
Making Stylesheets Easier To Write And Maintain
[2010-02-01] I've dabbled, played and tinkered with HTML/CSS for quite sometime but never took it seriously. Neither did I enjoyed doing them that much to relish the awesomeness of CSS. Of late, I've involved knee deep in some serious and heavy duty CSS
CIOs Still Unsure Of Facebook and Twitter's Role In Business
[2010-01-18] Here are several excerpts from an article by Jon Brodkin, Senior Writer for Network World, Facebook, Twitter Becoming Business Tools, But CIOs Remain Wary. Check out the complete source article for much more on this topic:
Google Adds Ad Blockage Extension To Chrome
[2010-01-04] Google must know something that we don't. Why else would they be SO open in their new move toward transparency as to allow for extensions on Chrome that, gulp, block the very lifeblood of their money printing operation? Well, considering the market share that Chrome currently has (around 40 million users) and the mindset of someone likely to use (or even know about) this extension the thought of this kind of ‘allowance' is probably bigger than the reality.
Understanding A Search Engine To Better SEO Your Sites
[2009-12-15] This post has been a long time coming. This is a topic that dives me mad to no end. Can you imagine a web developer that didn't know HTML? A conversion expert that doesn't know what Google Analytics is? How about a social media marketer that's never heard of Twitter?
GroundWork Announced Release Of Enterprise Quickstart And New Price Point
[2009-12-07] GroundWork, yesterday announched the latest version of its Enterprise Quickstart as a SUSE-powered virtual appliance, coming with a low price. Beyond commercial open source pricing incentives, I asked David Dennis - senior director of product marketing at Groundwork - to tell why GroundWork used Suse Studio to create its virtual appliance.
Google's Chrome OS Slated For Release Next July
[2009-11-16] Google first announced is Chrome operating system in July. Open source and targeted at netbooks, the OS could launch within a week, according to TechCrunch.
Technologies That Greatly Impact The Potential Of Your Business
[2009-11-09] Forrester's Alex Cullen recently released, The Top 15 Technology Trends EA Should Watch and they were nice to share with me. The summary states, "Forrester has identified 15 technologies with the greatest potential for business impact, and we've grouped these technologies into five themes:
Staying Current With Your Social Media Research
[2009-10-26] This is the fifth in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen, Information Architect at Océ and some of his colleagues, about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences. Océ is a leading international provider of digital document management technology and services. Earlier, I wrote out their micro-messaging (Yammer) , wiki experiences, enterprise information architecture, and SharePoint implementation. For this post I spoke with Samuel and Peter Kruizinga about their social bookmarking experiences.
Software Features Should Be Driven By Your Consumers
[2009-10-12] Since I'm a product manager by day, I was intrigued by Forrester's Mike Gualtieri's tweet: "Software has become very bloated #btf09 because vendors love to add features and users hate to lose features"
Important CIO Lessons Revealed At CDM Media's Finance Summit
[2009-09-28] Brian Babineau recently attended CDM Media's CIO Finance Summit and moderated a few different panels. He had some excellent observations, some of which I will share here.
Insights on SaaS Startups
[2009-09-14] If you're building a SaaS (Software as a Service) startup you're in great company. Most software entrepreneurs today are taking this approach -- including me. Below are some simple insights that I've learned in the process of being in the trenches with my own startup.
Measuring The Success Of SaaS In Your Enterprise
[2009-08-24] The Q3 2009 Forrester Wave™: Collaboration Platforms by Rob Koplowitz is out. It looked at eleven providers in the enterprise collaboration space. There is a lot of useful information there.
Enterprise Architecture Is Built For An Organization’s Culture
[2009-08-10] I participated in an excellent conversation today on Twitter between a few EA advocates. I was following a conversation passively until I came across this tweet:
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