Banking 2.0 and The Future of Bank Branches
As I’ve been talking to people around a particular interest area of mine – banking in the digital age – I’ve noticed an interesting cyclical progression. As digital technologies came to prominence in the 90’s, and banks looked for ways to cut costs and increase profits we saw a number
The Four Types of Enterprise Collaboration Deployments
There are essentially four ways to go about implementing an enterprise collaboration initiative at any organization, each with their own challenges. The factors that control the four options are: the duration of the deployment and the scope of the deployment (length of time and how broad the deployment is i.e. across a department or enterprise). [...]
CIO strategy: Be relevant or die
Cloud, social, and mobile computing have transformed the technology landscape. Here are tips to help you remain relevant in these changing times.
On Cloud Adoption
Clearly adoption of a new project is a result of myriad factors, but one of the key things to remember is that it is the non-technological human factors that are often the blockers to a successful project.
Memories of an Unconnected Era: Searching for Sugar Man
Many people reading this will be digital natives. These are people who don’t remember an era in which we were unconnected. There is no doubt that technology brings benefits to our lives and I have been a heavy user of tech since I was 13 (in 1981). I was connecting to online communities as a [...]
The 787 Dreamliner (Parts 1-2)
Part1: I travel to Asia a lot. The journey takes about 12 hours and can take 16 hours depending upon where I am headed. It is arduous. I often think I would rather drink rat poison than sit in a horrid seat for one more trip. But I do it; that is my job. I [...]
Great CEOs are Really Coaches, So Let’s Learn from Phil Jackson
“I don’t care if it’s 82-and-0 this year, you’re f***ing gone.”[5] – Jerry Krause, Owner of Chicago Bulls to Phil Jackson, The Greatest Coach Ever, After Phil Jackson Won His 5th NBA Championship, and just Before He Went On to Win His 6th NBA Championship and Thereafter Retire. That’s quite a quote. In light of [...]
ClickSoftware – Great Case of an AWS Cloud Adoption: Part 1, Operations
Over the last year I had endless conversations with companies that strive to adopt the cloud – specifically the Amazon cloud. Of those I met, I can say that ClickSoftware is one of the leading traditional ISVs that managed to adopt the cloud. The Amazon cloud is with no doubt the most advanced cloud computing [...]
Follow Up Post – Continuuity, the PaaS for Big Data (and a $10M Series A)
When Continuuity came out of stealth recently I was a little dismissive of a press release that was full of buzzwords and lacking significant details about what they’re actually doing. To their credit the Continuuity team reached out to me and spent some time talking about what they’re seeing in the marketplace and why they [...]
If it Didn’t Happen on Twitter it Didn’t Really Happen. Here’s Why
I wrote this post a long time ago. When I did it was a little too close to home for a company to have me publish it. Much time has passed. And I felt it was instructive still so I thought I would publish. I decided to water down some details to protect the innocent. [...]
The Emerging UCaaS Cloudscape
My trip to BroadSoft’s Connections conference got me thinking more about the cloud and hosted UCaaS. The space is growing, energetic, and optimistic. Infonetics recently reported the number of seats for hosted business voice-over IP and unified communication services is on track to “more than double” between 2012 and 2016. I put the emphasis on [...]
Google Play Site Falls Apart on Nexus 4 Launch. Now I Know Why it’s Called “Play”
Now we know whey it’s called Google PLAY. As it sure ain’t no e-commerce site:-(
#FAIL.
Connecting Appian, Rinde and Wardley with the intersection of process and social
I’ve been pushing the concept of using social technologies for collaboration and connections both inside and outside of business to make companies more effective since early 2006. The naming has changed from web 2.0 to enterprise 2.0 to social business, but the concept is the same. However, when some areas of technology like smart phones [...]
Don’t Forget to Pay People Right – Or at Least as Much as You Can
I awoke to the news the other day that the Lakers passed on hiring Phil Jackson back, and instead, opted for Mike D’Antoni instead, apparently to save about $6m a year, a percent or so of equity, and a bunch of other conditions. Too much, apparently, to get The Best of the Best. And probably, [...]
FileLocker Launches By Taking a Shot at Dropbox and Box
In launching FileLocker, InfraScale CEO Ken Shaw is claiming that both DropBox and Box have been “substantially misrepresenting their capabilities when it comes to security and won’t be adopted by enterprise or Government” because of it. Those are pretty strong words…
