Oliver Marks

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Oliver Marks consults and advises with on international digital business strategy, previously ran HP's Global Digital Enterprise Transformation team, managed the Sony PlayStation 'WorldWide Studios' collaboration and workflow environment, a…nd has worked with the American Management Association, Sun, Docent/SumTotal Systems, Harvard Business School and McKinsey & Company. Oliver has dual US/UK citizenship, speaks at various conferences and on the occasional webinar. He is based in San Francisco. His personal site is www.olivermarks.com.

Oliver Marks professional work is defined by an objective viewpoint of the broad spectrum of vendors and options available to his clients and readers of this blog. Oliver provides an impartial perspective of vendors and is focused on contractual affiliation with end user clients in order to select appropriate solutions. As such he has no business relationships with the companies or services he recommends. The opinions, concepts and views put forward in this blog are solely those of Oliver Marks.

Latest from Oliver Marks

Software is eating innovation: How trapped is your company?

Homogenized software can limit innovation as companies grapple with digital evolution options, while marketing continues to dominate tactical thinking.

April 13, 2016 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

Have Microsoft blown it? Part II

Rooted in archaic Victorian paper work practices, Msft Office suite is increasingly an expensive productivity drain in the modern digital era. Can it remain relevant?

July 28, 2015 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

Office productivity: Has Microsoft blown it?

Microsoft has dominated the 'office productivity' tools market for decades and is a de facto way of working in most companies. Having significantly held back innovation in the last 10 years, Office is arguably reaching the end of its useful life as modern digital tools make it look like an old bureaucratic anachronism.

July 22, 2015 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

The enterprise conference circus is in town!

A very busy week for tech conferences sees much repositioning of ERP providers as customer transaction experts, but do their prospects want their IT vendors giving them marketing advice?

May 6, 2015 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

'Digital washing' can wreck your strategic business planning

France's 1930's Maginot Line failure may seem an odd analogy, but 'digital washing' of old ideas and lack of forward thinking also have the potential to create strategic disaster in a highly competitive world

March 4, 2015 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

The growing digital divide and the strategic inertia that can kill

Fear of the unknown often prevents digital strategy from escaping the enterprise mud

January 29, 2015 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

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

October 16, 2012 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

Quarantining Facebook to control tracking

By using one browser exclusively for Facebook only, it is currently possible to limit their tracking your activities across the broader web

July 3, 2012 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

Microsoft's scattered strategic vision

Enterprise customers continue to be frustrated by a lack of clarity or momentum in key areas around business productivity 'front office' strategy from Microsoft; partners are picking up the slack but some big questions are being asked this summer

June 28, 2012 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

Post 'social' improved speed to information and context

Facebook IPO hype and dramas obscured Google's launch of their Knowledge graph contextual extensions to search, which may prove to be the foundation for future digital networking and a solution to information context and filtering

May 24, 2012 by Oliver Marks in Enterprise Software

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