Another Infographic bites the dust
Mindflash produced another Infographic, subtitled “Are companies allowing employees to use social media in the workplace?” That title couldn’t be more misleading. Yet another time it’s proven that content and presentation hardly ever go along (Cross-posted @ Business or Pleasure? – why not both)
Google extremely favours G+ in search
I’m not a very vain man, if at all, but every now and then I Google for “martijn linssen” to see what comes up. I only check the first page, and see how the order is for the first five: those should contain this blog (number one), my Twitter account and my LinkedIn account. Currently [...]
How @mezmerrett became a Twelebrity overnight
On the 24th of May 2011, Mez Merrett sent out a brilliant tweet: If you prefer TWITTER over FB then please retweet, i’m trying to show @Jessmayporter how far one tweet can actually go, Thanks for helping Mez has a hot avatar and bio, so does Jessika. The tweet is hot too: it’s got the [...]
A new kind of Capgemini Consulting, errrrr attrition
I was attended on Twitter to this thoughtless, clumsy, mindless piece by Peter Sayer on PCWorld: Capgemini Consulting, a specialist in strategy and transformation, is about to transform its own strategy for the second time in two years. To cope with the change, the company plans to recruit up to 1,000 staff this year, predominantly [...]
The simple secret to knowledge curation
Of all the Social Tools out there, most if not all of it is free text to the power of three. Notwithstanding the huge progress made – getting conversations in writing and saving them for eternity – it gets increasingly harder to make heads or tails of them. Why favour conversation or thread A over [...]
The Follow-or-Not Flowchart
I few days ago I published my “To Tweet or ReTweet flowchart“. I think it is time to publish my “To Follow or Not To Follow” flowchart as well, as I find that I hardly make any exception at all on my internal, unwritten rules for deciding to follow a new follower or not. This [...]
InMaps – a priceless gem
LinkedIn released InMaps this week, a very nice visualisation method that divides your linkedIn network in companies, networks, groups, etcetera. I think it’s fantastic. I try to keep a moderate network on LinkedIn as well, and it’s depicted above. My Capgemini network is up there, ex-Capgemini people, my University friends, my Highschool alumni, my LinkedIn [...]
Quora: a gossiper’s wet dream
And yes, it is a big wet dream to begin with, for all those self-promoters out there overshadowing the few good and helpful answers that are given on the platform. An ingenious tweet from Olivier Blanchard in a rather long conversation with David Armano pushed me to this post: @armano Quora is almost like a [...]
Real Profitability Part V: The Aftermath
After the last 4 posts on the subject (1, 2, 3, 4), this is the final one I had a few chats with respected and “bearded” analysts in the field, and realised that my unorthodox calculations would be fine as long as they’d make sense – the average analyst is only interested in earnings per [...]
Real Profitability Part IV: The Verdict
In yesterday’s post I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit and R&D figures of Tata Consulting Services and Wipro. The day before that, I showed the absolute and relative revenue, profit and R&D figures of Accenture, Atos Origin, Logica and Capgemini. The day before even that, I started this series by showing the absolute [...]
Real Profitability Part III: Indian players
Part III and second-to-last of this series, at least this one will be the last one with lists of figures In the first I gave you the Big Three (Google, Microsoft and Apple) and Four (Oracle, SAP, IBM and HP) and there was a big difference between them. Where the Big Three make an operating [...]
Real Profitability Part II: classical System Integrators
In my previous post I gave away financial stats on The Big Three and The Big Four, showing their revenue, profit and R&D – for the company as a whole but also calculated relatively for each employee. As Wim Rampen marvelously noted, the real drooling stats would be in measuring all that by customer, rather [...]
Real Profitability Part I: The Big Three and Four
After last post about the wondrous differences between absolute statistics and relative statistics, I decided to do a post and show you what I carry in my back-pocket before attending an event where The Big Three (GOOG, MSFT and AAPL) and The Big Four (ORCL, SAP, IBM, HPQ) announce last year’s figures and achievements. It [...]
Enterprise microblogging: measuring true value "is relative"
Yammer announced a new feature yesterday: Leaderboards Leaderboards gives users access to statistics about their network activity. The Leaderboards include: Most Liked Members: Top 10 users whose messages have received the most ‘Likes’ Most Replied to Members: Top 10 users whose messages have received the most replies Members with the Most Posts: Top 10 users [...]
Presentation and content hardly ever go along
After the publication of Digital Surgeons’ Facebook versus Twitter infographic this week, it got quickly republished everywhere, and ReTweeted. Currently, the words “facebook twitter infographic” still get 4.2 tweets per minute Pretty huge hey? GigaOm, TheNextWeb and ZDNet are a few of those who republished the nice and shiny graphic- apparently called infographic these days [...]
