Asphalt that controls traffic type and flow?
This weekend I attended the SAP Inside track NL event, held at Ciber HQ in Eindhoven. The event was great, and I really enjoyed it but would have loved to stay longer and gotten more involved. What has followed are great conversations and discussions, new people to follow on Twitter and elsewhere, and lots of […]
The SocMed files: I wanna believe
This week I had a chat with Steve Denning and Michael Ricard, and also some comments on IBM presenting their social profile. Both are related in the sense that lots of (social) promises are made, but little social or not outcomes presented. That worries me. Social works for me, for sure, and for many others […]
Perfect business cases for Social Business
Thanks to Oscar Berg for writing his No business case for Social Business It’s a good post and all true, although very few social media fans agreed with it – probably because it doesn’t give them what they want. As darks is the opposite of light, bad the opposite of good, and so on, I […]
Social Business Revolution
Social Business (R)evolution by Martijn Linssen (sample) The current world is abuzz about Social. Social networks, social media, Social Business: all things social. People, Twitterati and even a small number of companies embrace the diverse ideas and notions of Social, trying to sell and implement them That movement is a natural counter reaction to […]
Gamification – yet another one-size-fits-all?
I got into discussions today about gamification: Gamification is the use of game play mechanics for non-game applications (also known as “funware”), particularly consumer-oriented web and mobile sites, in order to encourage people to adopt the applications. It also strives to encourage users to engage in desired behaviors in connection with the applications. Gamification works […]
Social Enterprise Magic Quadrant
Debate and savviness seems to be flying across the Twitter verse these days, Stowe Boyd wrote a post about that One quote there: And Dennis has been making his displeasure about the use of the term ‘social business’ known, but not by arguing about the principles involved. Instead, Howlett has adopted a ‘savviness’ cant: he […]
Ask not what your company can do for you, …?
John F Kennedy to me was one of the finest presidents of the US. Shot and killed before I was even born, but still. During his inaugural address on January 20th 1961, one of his now famous quotes was: “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for […]
Stop breaking down silos, let’s enginize the pistons
Everywhere I go these days I encounter the call for integrating everything into anything and the words “break down silos”. While the former I applaud, the latter is a politically incorrect way to address the stakeholders (sic, more about that 3 paragraphs from now): it brings across a threat rather than an opportunity in most […]
A record store – who needs one these days?
This morning I read in the newspapers – wait what am I saying? In the old-fashioned newspaper I actually encountered news, yes. Well it wasn’t global news of course, but national, and pertained to music. Anyway, it was news – that’s a first since a year or so. A celebrated Dutch performer, Trijntje Oosterhuis, announced […]
2010-2020: The Great Divide
A Great Divide is what I see for the coming decade. Not a hydrological divide of the Americas, but an IT-divide of the business. Pretty much a follow-up from my one year-old Cloud and Social: the tectonic plates of IT 2.0, this post will show the great challenge Business and IT need to face together […]
Would You Manage CRM with a Wiki?
Or human resources with a blog? How about project management with forums? Funny questions to ask, no doubt. Of course it’s not possible to effectively address many of the critical business functions using basic Enterprise 2.0 tools. Yet when it comes to social software, it often seems that the only game in town is to […]
The Liminal State
A few days ago, I posted about the chasm between “social media” and “enterprise 2.0″ – about the different messaging, models and modes of thinking, but all with what I think is common ground. Over the past few days, I’ve found myself in interesting conversations around “social CRM,” the collision of tools like twitter and […]
