Rethinking Work In the Collaborative Era
Over the last few years, there has been an enormous amount of industry discussion about how the digital world is changing the way we work. To any reasonable observer, the ways that we communicate,...
View ArticleThe enterprise technologies to watch in 2014
Adopting new technology in the enterprise is often an uphill battle, as summoning the resources, building the skills, and managing the risk of the cutting-edge often takes as much art as it does...
View ArticleWhere is interoperability for social media?
A funny thing is happening along the way towards connecting all of us together via social media: We’ve ended up at a place where we have thousands of seperate islands of communication, instead of the...
View ArticleWhat is the Future of Work?
Much has been made recently about one of the stand out trends of the times we live in: Everything is becoming infused with technology. Software is eating the world it is said. Some have claimed that...
View ArticleBusinesses have digitized, but not transformed
After nearly a half-century of digital technology advancement — fueled by years of steady exponential gains from potent digital growth factors like Moore’s Law and Gilder’s Law – businesses are still...
View ArticleDesigning the New Enterprise: Issues and Strategies
I’m looking forward to traveling to Paris, France the week after next to provide the opening keynote to the Intersection Conference. Intersection is an intriguing new multi-disciplinary event organized...
View ArticleThe enterprise products with disruptive potential for 2014
If you were a CIO trying to lead the business from the front and begin deeper transformation to digital/social engagement, what would be on your short list? I asked myself that question as I reviewed...
View ArticleShifting the Meaning of Hierarchy to Community
Over the last year or so, a fascinating bow wave of interest has been converging on a growing cadre of companies who appear to be doing something quite novel and seemingly new. Specifically, these...
View ArticleEnterprise online communities mature, quantify value
The world of enterprise online communities is one of the more interesting phenemona of social business. For one, it’s not considered very glamorous, attached as it is typically to older, less exciting...
View ArticleEmerging tech transforming the workplace
Pretty soon — and in the not-too-distant future, most likely measured in years rather than decades — just about everything will be connected over networks. And by this, I mean literally just about...
View ArticleDefining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014
Many of you know that over the last several years I’ve tried to make the case that most organizations are currently falling behind the advancing pace of technological change. That business is so...
View ArticleEssential CIO Priorities for Digital Business in 2014
Making the online side of an enterprise a success on par with the legacy line of business has become an imperative in many organizations this year. At long last, digital transformation initiatives are...
View ArticleHow social business grew up
Who would have thought that social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn would ultimately end up having such a profound impact on the way we think about and run our businesses? The story of...
View ArticleDigital collaboration goes deeper, gets lightweight and intelligent
The good news is that enterprises today — large and small — have more choice than ever before when it comes to digital tools to make collaboration more effective and productive. But that same blessing...
View ArticleGoing Beyond ‘Bolt-On’ Digital Transformation
Much has been made recently of the imperative to fully transition our businesses into the modern digital world. It now hardly needs to be said at this point. There is even some encouraging news for...
View ArticleIs the Internet of Things strategic to the enterprise?
Are we to add the Internet of Things to the pantheon of top strategic technology prioritiesfor the decade? That’s the question increasingly in front of IT decision makers these days as tech vendors add...
View ArticleLet The Network Do The Work
One of the most striking things I seen when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based models, is that we keep trying to employ the new...
View ArticleThe new digital workplace: How enterprises are preparing for the future of work
That the average employee today has better information technology at home than at work has become a standard refrain in discussions of IT modernization. The consumer world of bleeding-edge smart mobile...
View ArticleDreamforce 14: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote #df14
The enormous crowd here is streaming into the main keynote with Marc Benioff here at Moscone Center on Tuesday. it’s nearly 1pm PT and the main hall is filing up quickly. I’ll live blog the event here...
View ArticleDreamforce 2014: Converging on cloud, apps, mobile, analytics, and community
From their announcement here at Dreamforce 2014 of their new Wave analytics cloud to August’sunveiling of the Community Cloud, it’s clear that Salesforce has developed — and has been delivering on — a...
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