Please find a break out on how to leverage your cloudsourcing strategy @ Cloud Computing https://www.box.net/shared/e373b3c3ab97d4b13ef7 that I currently perform at France’s top business schools (notably EDHEC) to an MBA / Executive audience and as BrightTALK international thought leader to build dialogue between IT and the Business (click on the link and you will...
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If not the following article indicates that you should http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/03/look_to_it_for_process_innovat.html
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Why can’t the IT guy fix your latest tech problem? Odds are, he’s ignorant. Read the rest @ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/it-comptia-study/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
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Why brands have this endless fascination with social media is one of the more fascinating phenomena in business today–especially since many are missing the one key ingredient that, if ignored, will turn their most choreographed efforts into social media hell. http://www.fastcompany.com/1824534/without-the-right-message-twitter-is-no-better-than-a-fax-machine?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29
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As we aboard the subject of innovation you would traditionally find 2 groups of innovation: progressive and disruptive. Disruptive innovation is not standalone, it is shaped by a number of progressive innovations that at a point in time have a significant impact on a technology or a market. This is also valid for corporate...
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In his recent HBR online Article “Social Media’s Impending Flood of Customer Unlikes” ( http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/social_medias_impending_flood.html?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-marketing-_-marketing092211&referral=00212&utm_source=newsletter_marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=marketing092211 ) BRIAN SOLIS points out that “Brands are furiously creating profiles in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter in the hopes of building engaging communities with customers and giving people what the brands think they want.” “But are...
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Within the current Cloud Business Model we would find 1) hosted applications to which we outsource data (salesforce.com is one example), 2) the external cloud (servers provided by a cloud provider outside the firewall) and 3) the internal cloud (servers provided inside the firewall). We have over the last 12 months seen 2 trends...
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In a recent conversation with a CIO the obvious question of the peer se competitive advantage in the adaptation of the cloud was raised. As aboarded earlier the adaptation of the cloud (external cloud defined as owned/ leased (SAAS) applications, bundled in to services with an underlying architecture, that run on a server provided...
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I have previously introduced “non traditional IT” notions such as ”Time to Market”, “Cloudsource”, ”Make or Buy”, “Cost and Demand drivers”, “An IT Business Model and Value Proposition” and ”An IT service Strategy”. Within this context I believe that a new notion and function will have to be instored, the IT department as effective broker of services...
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I assume that most of you have heard the theory of the butterfly effect related to chaos theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect), not the film. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later...
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