April 10, 2013
Blogs
April 7, 2013
Gaming, Tablets and Learning: What a difference a Year Makes
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
April 4, 2013
Facebook Home: Good for Users and Android; Bad for Google and Business
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 ma
March 28, 2013
BlackBerry Overhaul Delivers in 2013: Collapse or Comeback?
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,
March 26, 2013
SumTotal Beefs Up Executive Team to Leverage its Learning Heritage
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
March 25, 2013
Enterprise Connect 2013: Shifting from UC to Video
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 Co
March 14, 2013
WordPress and the Battle to become your CMS
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
March 6, 2013
Social Learning – Going beyond the LMS
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. Learnin
March 1, 2013
Saba in Transition: Five Facts You Should Know
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
February 26, 2013
Yahoo, Innovation and High Performance Teams
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 mak
February 22, 2013
Next Generation Content Authoring is all about Video
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. Peo
February 21, 2013
Innovation Incubating in Emerging Economies
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 inno
February 15, 2013
Social Content: Is your Content integrated with your Social Network?
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 Ent
February 13, 2013
App Stores Are Not A Build Your Own Proposition
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
February 11, 2013
GE is Social: The Battle to be Friends with GE
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
February 6, 2013
Dell in Transition, What Did IBM Know
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
February 5, 2013
Spigit Innovation Summit in Three Words: Innovate, Collaborate, Learn
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 o
February 4, 2013
Learning Content is Helping to Revive the Learning Market
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 learni
January 31, 2013
IBM Connect: IBM Gets Smarter about Software, Services and Partners
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
January 28, 2013