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Why Completely Trusting Enterprise Software Review Sites Is A Bad Idea

Why Completely Trusting Enterprise Software Review Sites Is A Bad Idea

By Louis Columbus on March 25, 2014

The scope, scale and variety of enterprise software review sites continues to accelerate, each promising a true glimpse into a buyer’s experience. These sites include Credii, G2Crowd, Google Apps Marketplace, Microsoft’s Pinpoint, LinkedIn, Trustradius, Salesforce AppExchange, and many others.  Each of these sites claims to have safeguards in place to ensure authenticity of reviews.  A few including G2Crowd are positioning themselves as Yelp for Software. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged and Yelp Review Fraud, competition, Credii, Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, G2Crowd, google apps marketplace, Harvard Business School, linkedin, Microsoft’s Pinpoint, Salesforce AppExchange, sap, Trustradius, YELP | 3 Responses

Making Better Business Decisions Part 1

Making Better Business Decisions Part 1

By Michael Fauscette on October 31, 2013

Most companies have a number of enterprise systems, whether that’s financial, human resources, payroll, warehouse management, customer service or any number of other transaction based software products. The point of those systems is to provide a way to automate and create repeatable process around the business workflows and execute transactions. For Industrial Age businesses creating […]

Posted in Business, Trends & Concepts | Tagged advantage, Big Data, Business, Business agility, Cloud, competition, data, decisions, erp, information, mobile, smart data, socbiz, systems, transactions | 1 Response

Much ado about Competitive nothings

Much ado about Competitive nothings

By Sameer Patel on April 29, 2013

Nmachi Jidenma writes about the undue focus we put on the competition. This is written with individuals in mind but I think it matters to emerging software categories as well. My favorite lines: “It only makes sense that competing with others distracts from the distinctiveness that makes our art special. By comparing ourselves with others, we […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged apple, competition, Enterprise and Social Sofware, Marketing strategy, SaaS and Cloud, Steve Jobs, Tesla Model S | 2 Responses

Leveraging Innovation Management for Competitive Advantage

Leveraging Innovation Management for Competitive Advantage

By Michael Fauscette on August 7, 2012

If you’re coming to CRM Evolution next week in NYC, you might notice that one of the sessions I’m doing matches the title of this post. Of course this isn’t the first post I’ve done on innovation, this one, for…

Posted in Business | Tagged competition, Culture, ideasourcing, innovation, process, socbiz, social business

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

Europe Sets Course for Cloud

By John Taschek on January 31, 2012

There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their self-interests. I don’t blame them – each person inherently protects self-interests. They’re wrong though. Cloud is not mature. It…

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged CERN, Cloud Computing, competition, David Bradshaw, EC, efficiency, European Commission, government, idc, Industry, innovation, Neelie Kroes, public cloud, Public Sector, Web/Tech

Finally...CRM Idol 2011

Finally…CRM Idol 2011

By Paul Greenberg on April 25, 2011

The Open Season is here and we’re ready to take your companies and find out which one of you in the Americas and which one of you in EMEA is the first CRM Idol.

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged competition, CRM, CRM Idol, CRMIDOL | 2 Responses

Google Under Siege?

Google Under Siege?

By Chris Selland on March 2, 2011

Certainly a meme going around lately suggesting that Google ($GOOG) is under attack from all sides. Leigh Drogen’s (@ldrogen) tweet this morning led me to Justin Paterno’s (@zerobeta) post which both do a good job summarizing the issue. $GOOG is being attacked from every angle.  When you sit back and ponder it, can you picture […]

Posted in Business | Tagged apple, competition, Facebook, google, microsoft, Search Engines, siege, social networking

(Flash) Gordon Gecko

Android is so Open, it got Flash Back on the iPhone

By Bob Warfield on September 9, 2010

How ironic.  On the same day that MG Seigler was penning one of his characteristically snarky posts (snark is one of the ways Techcrunch pursues its Follower Economy) about how Android isn’t really open, Apple announces the return of Flash to the iWorld. Adobe’s stock price is cooking this morning as a result (I wonder […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Adobe Systems, android, App Store, apple, competition, flash, gordon gecko, greed, iPhone, opennes, platforms, RIA, Software development, strategy, user interface | 3 Responses

Blue Oceans and Quanta of Competitive Differentiaton

Blue Oceans and Quanta of Competitive Differentiaton

By Bob Warfield on June 7, 2010

Do markets drive “AND” to the exclusion of “OR?” Sometimes it seems like it, but the reality is deeper and more mysterious.  This post was sparked by an interesting discussion among the Enterprise Irregulars group.  They were discussing how WebEx had steadily made their offering more and more difficult to love through feature bloat and […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blue Oceans, competition, differentiation, marketing, Physics, Quantum mechanics, strategy

Travel Tuesday: The Supply Risk of Market Consolidation and Air Travel – US Airways and United

Travel Tuesday: The Supply Risk of Market Consolidation and Air Travel – US Airways and United

By Jason Busch on April 13, 2010

As I got ready for a trip to Philadelphia this week and investigated my travel options, three choices emerged with any regular frequency — United, US Airways and Southwest. All the tickets, about a week in advance, were about $500 and change, or roughly 2X what I’ve paid in the not-so-distant past (a sign certain […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Airline, competition, Monopoly, Southwest Airlines, United Airline, US Airways

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