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.
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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?
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.
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?
'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
The growing digital divide and the strategic inertia that can kill
Fear of the unknown often prevents digital strategy from escaping the enterprise mud
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
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
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
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