
Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – David Bankston, INgage Networks
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. David Bankston, Executive Vice-President and CTO, INgage Networks Biography David Bankston is the co-founder and chief […]

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Tony Zingale, Jive Software
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Tony Zingale – CEO, Jive Software Biography As CEO of Jive Software, Tony’s responsible for overseeing […]

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Alistair Rennie, IBM
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Alistair Rennie – General Manager IBM Collaboration Solutions, IBM Software Group Biography Alistair Rennie is General […]

Executive Profiles: Disruptive Tech Leaders In Social Business – Eugene Lee, Social Text
Welcome to an on-going series of interviews with the people behind the technologies in Social Business. The interviews provide insightful points of view from a customer, industry, and vendor perspective. A full list of interviewees can be found here. Eugene Lee – CEO, SocialText Biography Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of […]

The Re-shoring of Spend — Even Wired is Picking Up On It (Part 1)
I usually read Wired as a form of tech magazine p*rn to stay remotely in touch with innovation — easy on the eyes and almost always superficially enjoyable, if not more. Yet there’s an article in a recent edition that suggests ju…

Social Media and Procurement: Get Ready for a Serious Shake Up (Part 1)
I spent a few days last week in the UK conspiring with my UK/European partner in crime on how to interject some major changes into procurement and supply chain coverage across the pond (oddly enough, world domination strategies se…

Consultant travel revisited
Rawn Shah just started reading my book and came across a section I title “empty calories in infotech”. One of my roughly 20 examples of low-payback spend is IT consultant travel. Rawn works for IBM’s software group, but has plenty of colleagues on the services side (IBM, after all is the largest outsourcer in the […]

Marketing… with user manuals?
We’ve been talking about how effective marketing is increasingly shifting from “interrupt and repeat” to a value exchange, i.e. the marketer gives you something you want in return for your attention. It’s a fairly simple (though still somewhat revolutionary) concept, and we have seen some incredible results using this approach in our emerging area of […]