Will “Mad Men” Drive the Social Enterprise?
Note this is a special guest post from industry authority Bruce Richardson. His blog can be found at http://stellwagenresearch.blogspot.com/. Bruce has a 30-year career in high-tech, harkening back to the days in which he worked alongside George Colony (founder and CEO of Forrester), Frank Gens (Chief Research Officer of IDC),…

Chatting Cars and Enterprise Software
Today’s big news is Salesforce Teaming up with Toyota to create a private social network where you can befriend your car and it will “tweet” you when it’s thirsty, need a checkup etc..etc..etc – see the details from @Krishnan’s post. The opportunities are really endless – more on that later. I have to get something […]

Toyota: The Cloud Enterprise
Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) is proving to be a more progressive company with an aggressive embrace of emerging technologies. From their partnership with Microsoft to build their Telematics Platform on Windows Azure cloud to today’s announcement about their alliance with Salesforce.com to use Chatter to develop their own social network for Toyota customers and others, […]

Microsoft Showcases Toyota As A Big Azure Win
Ever since Azure was released to public, Microsoft has been trying hard to showcase adoption trends. In spite of their best efforts, they couldn’t slow down the momentum Amazon Web Services has in the cloud services space. Even though they highlighted some customers during last PDC, pundits are skeptical about the kind of impact Azure […]

The Four Quadrants of Innovation: Disruptive vs Incremental
I recently wrote up a post, Most Dangerous Innovation Misperception – The Silver Bullet Approach. In it, I discussed the issue of organizations myopically focusing on only disruptive innovations to the exclusion of more incremental or sustaining innovations. In doing more research on the subject, I began thinking about the dynamics that apply when a […]