Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
Statistics matter, not only in business, but increasingly also in our social life - well, at least in our social media life. Some of the statistics I noticed this week were round numbers, like 1000. With 1000 representing both the number now showing under "followers" in Twitter and the...
Struggle and Contradiction in four different dimensions – that is how I can summarize the trend in social media.
Till Facebook came in, web was mostly open. Two of the key drivers behind the success of the Web are (1) the ease with which pages can be hyperlinked irrespective of where ...
You are what you eat; You become what you believe; I am not my art. A 2011 study from the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Psychology titled "Manifestations of Personality in Online Social Networks: Self-Reported Facebook-Related Behaviors and Observable Profile Informati...
Last week I wrote about the local Saratoga Springs, NY HUD Board public relations disaster. They had done everything wrong by ignoring and then mishandling a problem with bedbugs and providing a “not our fault” response. You can look at the earlier blog and videos for a full account. T...
Let me begin this post by dating myself - when I first (truly) got into technology, 
Content marketing surrounds almost every aspect of the marketing world. There are countless books, articles, blogs, social media outlets, and websites (like the one I am siting) dedicated to content marketing and why it is an essential tool for B2B and B2C marketers. They define strate...
My son took a bite of his hamburger and immediately exclaimed "it's too spicy!" I knew there was no spice in the burgers (okay there was some black pepper) as I had made them from scratch. I ate some myself and said, "See, not spicy". He took a long hard look at me and then he said "YO...
Social media marketing is a trend, not a fad. Moreover, it’s a terrific extension of your content marketing strategy. What’s clear from current research is that when we evaluate social media, we are not talking about the marketing longevity equivalent of the hula hoop or the Lam...
Coca Cola has been part of popular culture for over 100 years and has been called a “Vision Brand“. Its marketing and communication is purposeful and connects with its audience in a way that makes it stand out from its competitors. Its mission is not about selling products but to creat...
As part of a marketing evaluation we delivered to a client this week, we covered Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and in particular how the volume of indexed content plays a major role in the success of any SEO effort. The situation was simple: one of this company’s biggest competitor...
You were an individual contributor and you were good at your job. Now you're a manager and you've stopped producing something tangible. So what good are you? Why would your team respect you? Aren't they better at the work than you are?
The manager job description has a concrete list o...
In Part 1 of this article, we discussed PIOs (performance impact objects) and "optimized intersections" as they relate to mobile technologies and the mobile workforces Here in Part 2 we are going to discuss "patterns of life" capabilities and how they relate to business analytics and ...
Irrespective of what the Agile Manifesto says (“Customer Collaboration over Contract Negotiation”) we do require a signed contract for ANY medium to large software outsourcing engagements – and that includes agile projects.
Why? Because when there is a commercial arrangement between t...
The FBI seized popular upload site Megaupload.com yesterday. They took the site down and now own the servers.
I am not an attorney, and I have no opinion on whether or not the MegaUpload guys were breaking laws or encouraging users to violate copyrights through illegal uploading and ...
Gartner says, in three years, mobile application development projects will outnumber PC projects by 4-1 ratio and in four years, 50% of the people will primarily access their emails from a mobile device. So, the necessity of establishing a mobile channel for your customer is – well a n...
Scaling agile is not simple. The complexity increases not in proportion to the size of the team but at the square of the size of the team. That means a 20 member team project will be 4 times as complex as a 10 member team.
To ensure that complexity does not turn into chaos it is inevi...
Every two years, The Thinkers 50 publishes a list of The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus. Harvard Business Review is the media sponsor and McGraw Hill is the video sponsor.
The list contains many well-known names. I have listed some of them:
* Jim Collins (Good to Great & Bu...
About a year ago, I wrote a post about do'ers vs. did'ers, where I highlight that the most important people to identify during an industry transition are those that are doing new things. The people taking chances, learning new things and sharing them back with communities.
Critics have always accused Microsoft of copying UI from Apple. As Chris Madden in this interesting post point out that Apple fans state that:
“…every Mac OS feature and icon eventually shows up in Windows (and in fairness many do)…”
First time Microsoft came up with a revolutionary ...
Interview with Martin Frid-Nielsen, CEO of Soonr at AlwaysOn, Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay.
We are here to tell our story. Our biggest challenge is to continue to accelerate growth. When you talk about tablets and apps that enable the mobile workforce to be more productive, that's...
There are many 2012 predictions describing the major trends for the new year, and my personal favourite is this one, due to the headline quote of:
“2012 is primed to be the year of social.”
Absolutely. Although social media has been a buzz trend for quite some time, as has Cloud Comp...
Has Apple, by filing so many patent / IPR violation suits against Samsung in so many countries, marked Samsung as its equal?
For those of you who read Harry Potter, here is the parallel. Remember the prophecy? …
“…The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…Born to th...
Gartner release 11 IT Predictions for 2012 to 2016 on 1 December, 2011. It covers the usual gamut of technologies – Cloud, Social Media, Mobile, Outsourcing, IT Budget and Security. The new addition to this list is “Big Data.”
Typically, such predictions points to disruptions that ma...
I was listening to Roger McNamee’s predictions of technology investment trends and came across two new terms – Hypernet and Hyperweb. The first term is where the Internet is overlaid with smartphones. He says that smartphones are now 50% of the web devices and growing. The second term ...
This time of year everyone starts making technology predictions. So rather than making my own predictions for 2012 I thought it would be more fun to predict what 2020 could look like. Don’t worry even the Mayan’s don’t believe in the “End of the World” 201...
If you are like me, social media is already a large part of your life. I spend at least some time each day checking in with my friends, regardless of where they are in the world. Most of them do not live near me, or at least in not in my immediate vicinity. There is a newcomer to the ...
Fans of Paul Newman will recognize his character’s famous line in Cool Hand Luke. Never in the history of electronic communications do we have so many choices and yet experience so many communication failures. This was made clear to me recently when I tried to get in touch with a “frie...
Another year, another WordCamp here in Detroit. I was excited for it to arrive and I’m definitely sad to see it go. I love WordCamp almost as much as I love WordPress. It brings together my favorite things: WordPress and my fellow like-minded geeks. This year I was able to bring al...
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One of the first tips I got when entering the workforce was "You have two ears and only one mouth for a reason!", meaning that in conversations with customers you should spend twice as much time listening as you do talking. Point was to avoid becoming like a radio with only one button:...
How many times, we have seen that one of the easiest way of cleaning up your mail box is to delete all the enterprise announcements and group e-mails? Are we getting bombarded with too many policy change mails, group emails and announcements? After a few days of the email bombardment, ...
In a global economy moving ahead at Internet speed, can the United States afford to allow ourselves to continue sliding our ability to deliver the basic tool of communications, this “Fourth Utility” of broadband communications to our citizens?
During his October 6th speech on Universa...
WikiOrgCharts.com just launched a new ‘smart' job and people search feature that aggregates web results and combines them with a visual of the company organization chart where the job is available. The new feature allows job seekers to see beyond Indeed listings and find connections th...
A new study on an often overlooked subject is fresh off the presses: Demandbase and Focus.com 2011 National Website Demand Generation Study. The B2B company website is growing in importance as buyers spend more time researching and selecting the information they use during a complex bu...
Every analyst is discussing how Amazon’s Kindle Fire going to affect Apple. They are discussing, why it is going to be the first real competition for iPad – how at US$ 199, it is a killer pricing – Why Apple might launch a 7 inch rival – Why 7 inch is not a viable Tablet – Why Kindle F...
Mashable reports that Google has improved its IOS Google+ app:
The search giant follows Tuesday’s Android update of Google+with a similar refresh to its iOS version, now available free on the App Store. What’s new? Like its Android cousin, the iOS version of the Google+ mobile app now...
There’s some amount of debate whether Facebook really crossed over the one trillion page view per month threshold. While one report says it did, another respected firm says it did not; that its monthly page views are a mere 467 billion per month.
In the big scheme of things, the discr...
Smartphones, tablets, and the cloud – are they true IT innovation? Or, As Bob Lewis suggests, are they consumer innovation or port of one or more of the dozen earlier innovations to these new platforms?
It is very difficult to know the true disruptive potential of any innovation when...
Are you familiar with the words “Intrapreneur” or “Intrapreneurship”?
According to Wikipedia: Intrapreneur = A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.
Intrap...
