US federal CIO? ‘Someone from Google or Facebook will be eaten alive’
The selection of US Chief Information Officer must be an innovative Washington IT insider. Anyone else is doomed to fail.
Focus On Your Customers And Not Competitors
A lorry is a symbol of Indian logistics and the person who is posing against it is about to rethink infrastructure and logistics in India. Jeff Bezos is enjoying his trip to India charting Amazon’s growth plan where competitors like Flipkart have been aggressively growing and have satisfied customer base. This is not the first […]
How a 300,000 Person Company is Becoming a Start-Up
A few months ago I created a Youtube video where I talked about the paradox of organizations which is as follows. Business leaders know that as their organization’s grow they increase in complexity and decrease in speed and agility, however these same business leaders are constantly focusing on growth. So the paradox is how do […]
The gamification framework for business innovation
Analyst Brian Burke recently reformulated Gartner’s definition of gamification. His objective was to sharpen the firm’s focus for gamification, with “digital” and “motivation” as key elements. Burke’s announcement shines a spotlight on the continued expansion of gamification in many aspects of life. While Gartner looks at gamification from a horizontal perspective, I wanted to go deeper […]
50% on S3? AWS Helping Google Into the Game or Stopping the Cloud Race to Zero?
One day after Google announced a substantial price reduction for their cloud services, Amazon announced their own dramatic price reduction on several AWS offerings. This move will reduce the revenues of one of Amazon’s most profitable services, the S3, by about 50%. What were the AWS leaders thinking just before Andy Jassy went on the […]
Why And How Should You Hire A Chief Customer Success Officer?
For an ISV (Independent Software Vendor) it is everyone’s job to ensure customer success but it is no one person’s job. This is changing. I see more and more companies realizing this challenge and want to do something about it. Sales is interested in maintaining relationship with customers for revenue purposes and support works with […]
Cloud Academy: Test Drive Your Cloud Skills
According to IDC’s prediction, 7 million new cloud related IT jobs will be created by 2015. As cloud is still evolving, there is an overall lack of knowledge, skills and experience in the IT industry. This is intensified by the fact that new cloud features and innovations are introduced weekly by cloud service vendors, especially […]
What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp
Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion has dominated all news in Silicon Valley for the past 48 hours. Yesterday, I was at a urinal, and a group of people asked me what I thought. Most of the discussion seems to be around whether Mark Zuckerberg was crazy to pay so much for a relatively […]
OpenStack: A Community Torn Apart – Freedland, Bias and Scoble
Last month, I attended the OpenStack summit in Tel Aviv. This was yet another great event brought to us by the brilliant Gigaspaces team (especially @shar1z) headed by one of the most important cloud evangelists in Israel and the world, @natishalom. OpenStack aims to provide the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Wikipedia […]
Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise
2013 has been incredibly eventful for the cloud industry, mostly for making itself an eminent presence in the mainstream IT market. Businesses of all sizes have made their ways to the cloud, confirming my 2013 predictions. Government agencies worldwide take the cloud seriously, as demonstrated by the CIA’s contract switch over to Amazon from IBM. […]
Five Trends Shaping the Future of Work
When it comes to the future of work there are a few key trends which business leaders need to pay attention to. Understanding these trends will allow organizations to better prepare and adapt to the changes which are impacting the way we work. These five trends are: 1) changing behaviors which are being shaped by […]
Things to Think About for the Future of Work
Here is a random mix of thoughts and ideas that you can/should be thinking about when it comes to the future of work and collaboration. Just because we can always be connected doesn’t mean we should be, we need to time away from screens to spend with family and friends. If your company doesn’t think […]
Datapipe Acquired Newvem: My Take
I began my journey in the world of cloud computing roughly about 9 years ago, leading cloud and SaaS products and development teams. Two years ago, as part of my position as Cloud Evangelist for Clicksoftware, I had the pleasure of meeting two progressive entrepreneurs, Zev Laderman and Ilan Naslavsky. At that time, they had […]
Collaboration Delivers on Value But Where’s the Money?
When organizations deploy collaborative technologies and strategies to connect and engage their people and information they see all sorts of benefits. These include improved access to people and information, reduced travel costs, opportunity identification, issue resolution, employee engagement, improved employee retention, reduction in content duplication, and a host of other things. So, theoretically there should […]
Rethinking IT Transformation for the Cloud
As cloud computing matures and success models emerge, enterprises are now getting serious about using cloud to drive IT transformation. JP Morgan Chase, Toyota, GE and other leading organizations are moving beyond incremental costs savings and are using cloud and next generation platforms to drive innovation, growth and competitive advantage. Unfortunately many CIOs and their […]
