• Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
CloudAve
Software in Business. The Business of Software.
  • Business
    • Analysis
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Marketing
    • Strategy
    • Small business
  • Technology
    • Application Software
    • Infrastructure
    • Open Source
    • Mobile
    • Platforms
    • Product reviews
    • Security
  • Misc
    • Design
    • Just for fun
    • Trends & Concepts
  • Your POV
  • Sponsors
Browse: Home / roi

roi

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

By Ben Kepes on September 5, 2012

While it is undeniable that in the majority of cases cloud will be cheaper than traditional models of delivery. The benefits that cloud brings in terms of agility and flexibility far outweigh the cost benefits – looking at TCO alone is a race to the bottom of the cost-cutting hill.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, CloudComputing, Information technology management, roi, tco, techcrunch, Total Cost of Ownership

Focusing on Metrics that Matter

Focusing on Metrics that Matter

By Jacob Morgan on August 2, 2012

Metrics aren’t hard to come by, in fact it’s just the opposite, anything can be a metric and that’s a part of the problem.  Organizations today are struggling with trying to understand what they should be measuring and looking at when it comes to enterprise collaboration.  Should they be looking at how many employees are […]

Posted in Business | Tagged collaboration, collaboration metrics, enterprise 2.0 kpi, enterprise 2.0 metrics, kpi, KPIs, metrics, metrics that matter, Performance indicator, roi, social business metrics | 1 Response

Is Adoption the New ROI of Collaboration?

Is Adoption the New ROI of Collaboration?

By Jacob Morgan on June 14, 2012

This was the message that Yammer’s CTO and Co-Founder Adam Pisoni delivered at the Info360 Conference in NYC this morning.  While I’m not sure that the title of the presentation translated into the actual content, the presentation itself was great; filled with useful stats, telling visuals, and relevant analogies.  It’s actually a good thing that […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged adoption, collaboration, roi, roi of collaboration, yammer, yammer adoption | 4 Responses

ROI of Collaboration Comes from Hindsight not Foresight

ROI of Collaboration Comes from Hindsight not Foresight

By Jacob Morgan on April 25, 2012

I just came back from a Yammer event in San Francisco where several of their customers (7-11, Deloitte, Westfield, and others) shared their experiences and insights from using the product.  The question of ROI and measurement came up as it always does.  The customer panel said something which I have been saying for quite some […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, hindsight, roi, yammer

The ROI of ROI: Does ROI Always Make Sense?

The ROI of ROI: Does ROI Always Make Sense?

By Jacob Morgan on February 5, 2011

When I go into meetings there’s one question I love to ask when it comes down to social customer initiatives.  I get the key stakeholders seated at a table together and ask, “If I told you that you would never know about making any direct revenue from your customers through social channels, would you still […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged calculating roi, figuring out roi, roi, roi doesn't always make sense, roi of roi, Social Business, social customer roi, Social Media Marketing ROI and Accountability, understanding roi | 3 Responses

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

Model for Employee Innovation: Amazon Prime Case Study

By Hutch Carpenter on December 2, 2010

As more organizations expand the innovation mandate throughout their workforce, creating and maintaining an ongoing employee innovation program is critical. Sustainable innovation requires a process, not a haphazard, random luck approach. To that end, a useful model to follow is: The different activities address important aspects of innovation, from eliciting tacit ideas inside people’s heads… Read More

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, blog, crowdsourcing, employees, innovation management, roi

Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically

Collaboration Tools Improve Productivity Drastically

By Krishnan Subramanian on November 11, 2010

With Enterprise 2.0 just over, I am still talking about social and collaboration with others. I came across an interesting data about the collaboration space and thought I will highlight it here. We all know how the modern collaboration tools increase the productivity in an organization by manyfold. There are many studies that put a […]

Posted in Application Software | Tagged collaboration, Collaboration tools, enterprise 2.0, enterprises, forrester report, google, google apps, google docs, google sites, productivity, roi, Social Business

The True Way To Measure E2.0 ROI

The True Way To Measure E2.0 ROI

By Chris Yeh on November 9, 2010

As Enterprise 2.0 continues to evolve, the one question that continues to go unanswered is how to measure ROI.The question came up again today at an E2.0 “town hall” at the Enterprise 2.0 conference.My response wasn’t popular, but I think it’s worth re…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged e2conf, enterprise 2.0, roi, Social Business | 6 Responses

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Open Source Is The Key To Cloud Economics

By Krishnan Subramanian on October 15, 2010

Regular readers of this blog know that I am a strong advocate for Open Source in this cloud based world. In fact, I have argued many times here that Open Source is equally important as Open Standards in ensuring the freedom of the users. I am going to push this meme again here quoting a […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, cloud economics, Licensing, open source, proprietary software, roi, tco | 2 Responses

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs

Open Source And Cloud Computing: Amazon Micro Instances Can Be Boon To SMBs

By Krishnan Subramanian on September 9, 2010

Earlier today, I wrote about Amazon’s announcement on the availability of the new Micro Instances and their aggressive pricing strategy. The surprising factor for me is their competitive pricing. Their on-demand instance is only 2 cents per hour for Linux and 3 cents per hour for Windows. A 24/7 usage of a Linux Micro Instance […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, analysis, aws, cloud computing, ec2, iaas, infrastructure, Micro instances, open source, oss, roi, smb, tco | 5 Responses

Open Source Or Proprietary?

Open Source Or Proprietary?

By Krishnan Subramanian on July 8, 2010

I am a strong proponent of open source in cloud computing. In spite of an argument in favor of architecture over licensing, I still feel open source has an important future in the world of cloud computing. However, unlike many in the open source world (well, in the proprietary world too), I don’t see open […]

Posted in Open Source | Tagged cloud computing, Licensing, licensing costs, open source, proprietary software, roi, tco | 3 Responses

SOMESSO/Headshift Social Business Summit - a meeting of minds

SOMESSO/Headshift Social Business Summit – a meeting of minds

By David Terrar on March 22, 2010

I’ve been a regular at every SOMESSO event so far, and Lee Bryant kindly invited me to the latest incarnation last Thursday – a joint SOMESSO and Headshift one day Social Business Summit.   Sorting out a very embarrassing attack of the ave.exe virus delayed me enough that morning to miss the two keynotes from Jeff […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged collaboration, e20, enterprise 2.0, headshift, london, roi, Social Business, social media, somesso, summit

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Enterprise 2.0 ROI

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Enterprise 2.0 ROI

By Hutch Carpenter on March 19, 2010

You may be familiar with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. It’s a theory Abraham Maslow proposed in 1943, that provides a pecking order of human needs. At the bottom of the pyramid are physiological needs: breathing, food water, etc. The fundamentals needed for basic survival. The needs then climb the pyramid, becoming more intangible as one goes […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged e20, enterprise 2.0, roi | 24 Responses

Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0

Why Ideas Are Core to Enterprise 2.0

By Hutch Carpenter on February 10, 2010

Brian Solis spoke recently on what the future of social networks will be. Ideas, it turns out. As I wrote on another blog post: Solis, leading thinker in the integration of social media and PR, recently spoke on an intriguing concept: ideas connect us more than relationships. The premise of his argument is that ideas […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged enterprise 2.0, geek, ideas, innovation, innovation management, roi, social objects

Social Media in the Enterprise - event report pt 1 of 2

Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 1 of 2

By David Terrar on February 3, 2010

I blogged that Alan Patrick and I were running the only enterprise related event as part of this week’s “London Social Media Week“.  Considering we only had the idea a week last Friday at Tuttle, and only promoted the thing with a few tweets, I’m both impressed and surprised that we had around 50 attendees […]

Posted in Enterprise | Tagged b2b, cass business school, collaboration, Enterprise, enterprise 2.0, General Business, roi, smib, social media, social media week, value chain, web 2.0, wikis

Next »
feed mail facebook twitter linkedin

Popular Posts

  • Cutting Through the Fog of Cloud Computing Definitions
  • Home
  • Rate your company's innovation culture
  • Global Intranet Trends for 2011 (part 1)
  • The Documentation Maturity Model (infographic)
  • Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and Oracle Org Chart
  • Blog
  • Contact

Archives

Authors

  • Adron Hall
  • Chirag Mehta
  • Christian Reilly
  • Dan Morrill
  • Derek Pilling
  • Hutch Carpenter
  • Jarret Pazahanick
  • Jason M. Lemkin
  • Joel York
  • John Taschek
  • Krishnan Subramanian
  • Mark Suster
  • Michael Krigsman
  • Ofir Nachmani
  • Paul Miller
  • Quinton Wall
  • Randy Bias
  • Robert Duffner
  • Sadagopan
  • wprss
  • Zoli Erdos
Sponsored by: