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, [...]
What Enterprises Should Learn from Citrix Adding Real-time to Podio
May 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
To view a PDF of this First Cut, click here. Author: Jim Lundy Topics: Collaboration, Social Issue: Who are the collaboration providers and how will they evolve? Issue: How will the social HCM market evolve? Summary: Citrix announced new real-time collaboration capabilities for its social networking platform, Podio. This signals a trend toward integrating real-time collaboration and social [...]
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 [...]
IBM Impact 2013: Making Business Mobile
May 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Mike Anderson IBM held its Impact 2013 event in Las Vegas this week. More than 9,000 people attended, and the interest as well as energy levels were high. Behind the multitude of sessions that addressed all areas of IBM systems from application development to new hardware, mobile was the centerpiece. The focus was not [...]
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 [...]
Windows 8 and the PC Industry Both Fail To Impress
April 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Mike Anderson News from the PC industry has been bleak, with reports that sales volumes not only declined but that they have fallen by more than 10%. Microsoft has felt its share of the pain, and Windows 8 has taken some of the blame for the decline. Windows 8 didn’t cause or even significantly accentuate [...]
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 [...]
Facebook Home: Good for Users and Android; Bad for Google and Business
April 4, 2013 By Leave a Comment
by Mike Anderson There has been an amazing level of speculation and hype about Facebook introducing their own mobile smartphone. Even though Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly denied that making the phone hardware either made sense for Facebook, or aligned with its business strategy, the rumor mills persisted. With its announcement of Home today, Facebook has [...]
BlackBerry Overhaul Delivers in 2013: Collapse or Comeback?
March 28, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Mike Anderson RIM, now BlackBerry, has taken a beating that has done nothing but worsen since the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in 2007. It’s response in 2012 has resulted in nothing short of a massive overhaul, from management to cost structure to product strategy. BlackBerry has created of a new strategy with a new [...]
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 [...]
Innovation Incubating in Emerging Economies
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
By Mike Anderson I read an interesting blog post by Microsoft exec Fernando de Sousa about technology change in Africa and how it presents investment opportunities. A contention was that Africa is an incubator for innovation that will be a source for change affecting the rest of the world. Innovation Enablers One great point was that [...]
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 [...]
App Stores Are Not A Build Your Own Proposition
February 13, 2013 By 1 Comment
By Mike Anderson Mobile apps in 2013 are poised for a rapid and accelerating growth. Mobile has taken root in the heart of business strategy for a growing number of enterprises, and most are working on multiple mobile apps. As mobile apps grow the need to distribute and update them, and provide users a simple and [...]
