Can Microsoft put their new enterprise jigsaw together?
The changing face of what businesses need is challenging to incumbent suppliers. Meanwhile, a new generation of innovation is flowering around simplicity.
Collaboration 2.0
Real world collaboration strategies and tactics for enterprises.
Oliver Marks
Oliver Marks provides seasoned independent consulting guidance to companies on effective planning of business strategy, tactics, technology decisions, roll out and enduring use models that make best use of modern collaborative and social networking tools to achieve their business goals. He is technology agnostic and focused on helping end users obtain maximum value with forward thinking business strategies and associated technology investments and integrations.
Latest Posts
The software creation literacy crisis
The number of people who can read and write code, particularly for mobile devices, is dangerously low: what's needed are easier ways to create software you can use in the context of your specific needs
The innovation log jam
Searches for ways to innovate often need to begin with looking at the self imposed limitations of internal corporate cultural conventions
Have I got a deal for you!
'Social' SaaS and holiday timeshare sales pitches are alarmingly similar. Don't believe the hype: focus on where you need to go and what you'll digitally need to get there
Enterprise computing IS the cloud
Cloud strategy is now indivisible from enterprise computing - can Oracle retain its vast customer base in this new era?
Oracle & the enterprise carousel
Oracle's powerful offerings leverage the cloud's merger with mainstream enterprise computing, but their relevance are open to question
Cloud naivety and electric car dreams
Harnessing the power of cloud computing requires that you understand underlying concepts: loose understanding can cause more harm than good
Salesforce demonstrating great momentum
Branson & Benioff demonstrate world class salesman human qualities, SalesForce selling ever more connected and intelligent businesses
Experiential over intellectual - the enterprise parties on...
Musical entertainment, motivational speakers entice enterprise conference attendees, but the gap between understanding and doing remains large
Connecting with traditional business language and conventions
John Hagel believes exploiting process exceptions is the way to find value in social initiatives; the challenge is often finding a common language with the business world