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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Jim Lundy At IBM Connect 2013, the IBM Software Group demonstrated that it has begun to execute a transformation strategy away from its former Lotus brand to focus on social business, a smarter workforce (a code name for social HCM) and cognitive computing (IBM calls it Watson). IBM is getting smarter about how […]
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 […]
By Mike Anderson This week has been a hot start to the mobile ecosystem battles expected in 2013. Apple has seen its glow begin to dim. Samsung’s earnings shine to record levels because of smartphones. Microsoft hits its numbers even though Surface hasn’t arisen to drive Windows. And Lenovo has made public its interest as […]
By Jim Lundy The battle of the Content and Collaboration Start-ups just got more interesting. Huddle, which is mainly known for its UK heritage, just landed in San Francisco with a brand new Chief Marketing Officer Chris Boorman. Many know of Chris from his recent stint at Informatica where he helped to take that firm […]
By Mike Anderson The Mobile Ecosystem conflict in 2013 will be characterized by a tumultuous and exciting year. Significant changes are under way as the mobile ecosystem players must confront growing pressures and big questions regarding their future. Apple, Microsoft, Google, RIM and Samsung each face a big question as the year unfolds. Can Apple maintain its […]