July 2009
11 posts
I am the future of search
What am I looking for again? I can’t find my phone. What are my options for locating it? 1. Look for it 2. Ask others if they’ve seen it 3. Phone it I would probably apply those strategies in that order as each fails. Of course, what I really want is for my phone to magically appear in my hand whenever I need it. That would be nice. Search on the internet today is somewhere between stages 1...
Jul 24th
Context is King
Jul 24th
God I hate the phrase “real-time”. It is misleading and frequently undesirable. “Right-time” would make more sense.
Jul 21st
Very distracted by cricket today
Jul 20th
A perspective on MS Office 2010
This week Microsoft started talking more about its Office 2010 release, specifically, changes to the desktop application, a new web-based version, and support for each in SharePoint. Since this impacts us at oneDrum, I’ve spent some time trying to understand what is coming. Before I layout my perspective, let me first say that although I talk to the MS guys and had some visibility of what is...
Jul 17th
Interview with me on Smarta
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Jul 14th
Types of Innovation
A lot of people have been quizzing me about the relationship between collaboration and innovation. This got me to thinking about types of innovation over the weekend. In my experience I’ve come across the following: Process innovation - deliver a product faster or cheaper; Dell was a process innovator through it’s mastery of supply chain management. Shop front innovation - sell a...
Jul 13th
Wondering if lessons from supply chains can be employed in collaboration and innovation
Jul 10th
RT @OneDrum: drinks are on us at the TechCrunch #Europas tomorrow
Jul 9th
Article by me at Entrepreneur Country http://bit.ly/19BNxI
Jul 8th
The economics of free
I attended Chris Andersons book launch for ‘Free’ on Thursday. I had low expectations of the panel discussion, but was pleasantly surprised. While there was much discussion of marginal cost there was almost no discussion of marginal revenue. Kevin Lomax (of Misys fame) has spoken to me, in the past, of the Valley of Death - a price point in Enterprise Software between USD20,000...
Jul 6th