
Simon Cowell Left American Idol to Launch CRM Idol. But He Did Not Make the Final Cut.
Paul Greenberg did. Simon is off doing X-Factor instead Joke apart, if you are in the CRM business, or interested in CRM, or even just social software, chances are you’ve heard of Paul Greenberg. Simply said, he is the Godfather of CRM. And Godfathers get to make decisions. If you follow Paul’s annual CRM […]

Innovation Weekend @ SAP TechEd
Over the years I’ve always tried hard to bring new technologies from within SAP to the forefront, into the hands of folks at our events as quickly as possible and when I made my transition to my new team this year I took the opportunity to push that personal agenda even further. It was this […]

Crowdsourcing Our New Logo Design. Time to Vote.
We’re putting our money where our (digital) mouth is: having talked so much about crowdsourcing, we took 99designs for a test drive, hoping to see a new CloudAve logo emerge. I was not too impressed with the initial submissions, but just as I suspected, 99design works pretty much like eBay does: the better contestants ignore […]

The New Polymath "Wow" Candidate Contest
Abbie Lundberg, former editor-in-chief at CIO magazine in her review of my book, The New Polymath called it a “veritable firehose of innovation examples”. The book covers wide innovation ground across industries, countries and technologies. 150…

ARIS Express Process Modeling Contest
The ARIS online community is running a contest until the end of November to get people started with process modeling: create a process model (using their free downloadable ARIS Express process modeler, of course) that falls into the category “BPM is useful” or “BPM is fun”, and submit it on their site. I’m not sure […]