By Jim Lundy We watch and analyze markets and two of those include Learning as part of Talent and Social HCM, as well as the rising category of Social Business. When you watch markets, it also involves watching technology providers One of the technology providers that participates in multiple Social Markets is Mzinga. In 2013, [...]
Adobe Creative Suite Goes Cloud as Microsoft Hedges Bets with Office
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Adobe made headlines the other day when they announced that all future enhancements to their Creative Suite will only be made on its Creative Cloud version only. Note, they are still selling Creative Suite 6 as a traditional shrink-wrapped bundle, which is what Adobe has always been known for. However, with their [...]
Sales Execution: There are no shortcuts to Success
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy IBM CEO Virginia Rometti had to shuffle her sales staff last week after IBM’s hardware division missed its sales number by 17%. That isn’t a small miss. There are many lessons learned from IBM’s move that other CEOs could learn from. This blog post is about Sales execution. First, I spent my [...]
iPhone 5S: Rumors versus Predictions
April 10, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy It is that time of year and all the Apple watchers are loading up their blogs with iPhone 5S rumors to drive viewers to their respective sites. There is no doubt that the iPhone 5S is coming. That said, iOS 7 is coming too and on the day it launches, the beauty of [...]
Gaming, Tablets and Learning: What a difference a Year Makes
April 7, 2013 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy Having covered Corporate Learning for years, I’ve become a student of Gaming and Simulations. I was very surprised to see the enhanced quality of some games on my iPad 4. This was after having watched the Sony PlayStation announcement just a few weeks ago. This blog post discusses advances in gaming on [...]
SumTotal Beefs Up Executive Team to Leverage its Learning Heritage
March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy SumTotal Systems was taken private in 2009 by Vista Equity Partners for roughly $160 Million. Lots of things happened after that deal. It moved its Company Headquarters to Gainesville, Florida and it hired a new CEO John Borgerding, a Xerox veteran. John and I were both at Xerox at the same time, but [...]
Enterprise Connect 2013: Shifting from UC to Video
March 25, 2013 By 2 Comments
By Jim Lundy I attended the Enterprise Connect 2013 event this week in Orlando. If last year was about VOIP, this year the entire focus was on video. A majority of technology providers that were present at Enterprise Connect were talking about and demonstrating their video solutions. Many startups showed how they are leveraging WebRTC in [...]
WordPress and the Battle to become your CMS
March 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy There is a battle raging for the control of your website and the growth of Open Source CMS providers like WordPress is exploding (note, CMS is also referred to as Web Content Management (WCM)). WCM Vendors want to win and they get their fare share of websites, yet they haven’t stopped the [...]
Social Learning – Going beyond the LMS
March 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
By Jim Lundy We just published our Learning Trends for 2013 and one thing is clear: the days of only focusing on the LMS are winding down. The rise of informal Learning – which is called Social Learning is here. Learning and Development Professionals have always used tools to get learners to collaborate. Often it [...]
Saba in Transition: Five Facts You Should Know
March 1, 2013 By 1 Comment
By Jim Lundy Saba Software announced today that Founder and CEO Bobby Yazdani was stepping down. This isn’t the first time that Bobby has stepped down from Saba. He stepped down from the CEO role in the early 2000s and returned in 2004. I know because I covered Saba then and still cover them now. On [...]
Yahoo, Innovation and High Performance Teams
February 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy The announcement about the change in the Remote Work policy last week at Yahoo by CEO Marissa Mayer was met with howls and screams by many. Yet for companies that are growing and innovating, why do they make people show up at an Office? Can’t Collaboration Technologies solve everything? Not when it [...]
Next Generation Content Authoring is all about Video
February 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy I often spend time during the day talking about content and how it gets created – what I call Content Authoring . In fact this week, it was a topic of discussion more than once. Let’s cut to the chase. People want to communicate what they are doing in a richer fashion and [...]
Social Content: Is your Content integrated with your Social Network?
February 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy I spend my days talking with clients about Social Software and some of the critical success factors. Content is one of them. Social Content is the term I use to describe if content is integrated into an Enterprise Social Network. It is hard to use an ESN for work if you aren’t [...]
GE is Social: The Battle to be Friends with GE
February 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy This is a post about marketing and the battle for the right to talk about Customer Brands. General Electric (GE) is one of the most revered brands in the world. The battle to be able to say that “GE is a customer” has waged for years. I’ve witnessed it and been part [...]
Dell in Transition, What Did IBM Know
February 6, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Mike Anderson As Dell races to transition from a Public to a Private company, it is clear that the Tablet Era is claiming its victims. Once the leader, Dell joins others like HP and IBM facing the reality that the PC’s rule is in decline, and the business generates high volume but has tight [...]
Spigit Innovation Summit Summarized in Three Words: Innovate, Collaborate, Learn
February 5, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy I attended Spigit’s third annual SIS summit in Dana Point two weeks ago and it was one of the more memorable customer summits I have attended in a long time. The biggest reason was that it was almost more of a retreat that discussed the entire spectrum of innovation, rather than a [...]
Learning Content is Helping to Revive the Learning Market
February 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy Learning Content is hot. A number of twitter and live discussions at #IBMConnect last week, combined with the completion of some of our new research, prompted this blog post. While some proclaim that learning software is hot, it isn’t as hot as the exploding Learning Content market. Our view is that the [...]
Apple’s Focus on the iPad Gave Samsung an Opening
January 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Jim Lundy It is all over the press. Apple isn’t cool, Samsung is. It is amazing to see the power of advertising, because that is what is going on today. Three things have happened in the last twelve months that are driving all of this new found focus on Samsung. 1. Samsung launched a [...]
