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Gartner's social software predictions for 2010: a few misses...
So, Gartner is out “revealing” its “five social software predictions for 2010 and beyond“. I’ve not been able to resist commenting them… By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users. Greater availability of social networking services both inside and outside the firewall, coupled with changing demographics and work styles …
Annual meeting of G9+ professional group in Paris
Will participate in 2 roundtables. One on the benefits of using social networking technologies in the enterprise today, and the second on the future of corporate social networking technologies on a 5-year timeframe. All details here, the lineup for both the event and the series of event before it is impressive!
Enterprise 2.0 Summit: speaking, discount code, and pre-session in Paris
I will be speaking on Wednesday Oct. 11th at the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Frankfurt. To register, use the discount code “coreedges200″, valid until Oct 14 with a discount of 200 EUR on all tickets. After that you will get a normal discount of 100 EUR – for all tickets at all price levels … means 390 EUR until Oct …
"Enterprise 2.0" is about organizational performance, not just t****!
Safaricom is revolutionizing what currency means in Kenya with M-PESA. A true, radical innovator, in an industry characterized by many fossilized players in developed countries. Will I ever see an “Enterprise 2.0″ case study on Safaricom? Yes, if they deploy a wiki, social networking platform, etc. Otherwise, no. How crazy is that? Their combination of IT tools, culture, organizational design, …
Let's share the best pictures to use in presentations with #prezpic
Working on a presentation, the most time-consuming activity for me is finding great pictures to illustrate concepts, emotions or whatever I’m trying to convey. Though their use is not that wide-spread yet, especially in the corporate world, they are very effective as tools to communicate, mostly because of the overweight the brain is putting on visual perception. As a simple …
Core Digital Infrastructure Technologies improve exponentially without stabilizing
Expand to see inline the other posts in Fundamental Shifts» The release of the Shift Index from the Deloitte Center for the Edge is an excellent occasion to come back on the foundations of the various Shifts that are currently redefining the way businesses have to operate. The core digital infrastructure technologies (Computing, Storage, Networking) are showing an exponential increase …
The cost of interactions between individuals has fallen to zero
Expand to see inline the other posts in Fundamental Shifts» This will be a short and to the point post. I have sought to explain how this blog is (kind of) organized (see here). In the process, I have changed a bit the organization, and have now to comply with it :) So let me do a few posts that …
Features has now become a useless concept when evaluating IT projects
Expand to see inline the other posts in IT Management» The rising scarcity of attention makes the concept of “features” increasingly irrelevant. IT and Business Executives need to unlearn using this concept as an evaluation tool for IT applications. If vendors want to increase their market share, they also need to make sure “features” is not the focal point of …
How can Prezi penetrate the enterprise market?
“Nice content – awesome presentation! What did you use to make it?!” That’s what everyone who sees my BRITE presentation asks me. It’s a new service called Prezi. And it’s insanely great — the minute I saw it I had to have it, no questions asked. So, for the first time in half a decade, I found myself doing the unthinkable: …
Selling at cost in exchange of a yearly fee: does it create "thick" value?
Zara is the poster-child of an agile and innovative retailer company. Yet, a small French retailer has established a model I’ve never seen in the wild before: it simply sells at cost to members of its “club” who paid a fee. Clubatcost‘s founder is a well established entrepreneur who is managing Orchestra, a children clothing retailer. Pierre Mestre’s video on the …
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