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Oliver Marks

Oliver Marks

Oliver Marks is a founding partner at SovosGroup.com which provides seasoned independent consulting guidance to companies on the effective planning of 'Enterprise 2.0' strategy, tactics, technology decisions and roll out.

With extensive senior management practical experience in international enterprise collaboration, Oliver previously managed the Sony PlayStation 'WorldWide Studios' collaboration extranet, and has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company on major initiatives around knowledge transfer and change management.

Oliver has dual US/UK citizenship and has worked on Asian, European and American global enterprise collaboration, and spoken at various conferences. He is based in San Francisco.

His personal blog is at www.olivermarks.com.

About Collaboration 2.0

Real world collaboration strategies and tactics for enterprises.

  • Roll up, roll up! Oracle digests Taleo

    By Oliver Marks | February 9, 2012, 8:04pm PST

    We’re in for more cloud/SaaS merger and acquisitions this year. Will continued innovation triumph over old guard purchase integrations? And do the customers and prospects care as much as the...

  • Alfresco enter the cloud & mobile era

    By Oliver Marks | February 6, 2012, 5:18pm PST

    Alfresco create cloud and mobile offerings to augment their core standards based enterprise content management competencies

  • Sturgeon's law & the copyright vacuum

    By Oliver Marks | February 1, 2012, 12:43pm PST

    Your on the job contributions in collaborative environments are much more protected than elsewhere digitally, but getting credit for ideas is critical to continued use pattterns

  • The value of collecting your thoughts in a private online journal

    By Oliver Marks | January 23, 2012, 10:30pm PST

    In this era of multiple channels of communication, collecting your personal thoughts and ideas in one place is increasingly useful

  • Don't put your neck on the line...

    By Oliver Marks | January 18, 2012, 8:02pm PST

    Investing in long lasting, good quality ergonomic work furniture costs about the same as a new computer, but isn’t as seductive as a new Apple laptop despite many great design attributes....

  • Consistent standards for defining 'social business'

    By Oliver Marks | January 13, 2012, 11:40am PST

    The W3C are getting more involved with defining standards around ’social business’ - this is a very good thing IMO

  • Blackberry's irresponsible social advertising

    By Oliver Marks | January 5, 2012, 9:34pm PST

    A startlingly unhelpful TV commercial manages to both undermine Blackberry’s enterprise credibility while apparently encouraging personal activities on company time

  • The information diet

    By Oliver Marks | January 3, 2012, 7:09am PST

    Clay Johnson makes a case for conscious information consumption in his new book, drawing analogies with our food habits and options. We are in danger of being drowned in information; strategies...

  • Jive Software: the end of the beginning...

    By Oliver Marks | December 13, 2011, 5:46pm PST

    Financial market sentiment around Jive’s growth prospects will now play an increasingly important role in the broader space they have come from. The big leagues are crowded and finding space...

  • Buying into the cloud while supporting the past

    By Oliver Marks | December 6, 2011, 1:40pm PST

    Legacy application complexity coupled with next generation connected business needs is hugely challenging for large enterprise software companies. The SAP SuccessFactors purchase may signal a new...

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