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Shift Happens! revisited

Shift Happens! revisited

By David Terrar on February 19, 2010

Way back in August 2006 a teacher called Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado, USA created an 8 minute PowerPoint presentation with some music. It aimed to highlight the rate of change of the world we live in, and remixed content from David Warlick, Thomas Friedman, Ian Jukes, Ray Kurzweil and others. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged creativity, Creativity & Innovation, digital revolution, flat world, future, futurestory, General Business, generation m, generation y, Globalization, innovation, millenials, Raymond Kurzweil, shift, strategy, Thomas Friedman, Web 2.0

2.0 Adoption Warfare - can military tactics help?

2.0 Adoption Warfare – can military tactics help?

By David Terrar on February 17, 2010

A few weeks ago, as part of Social Media Week, Alan Patrick and I ran the very well received Social Media in Enterprise event (which we’ll run again!). It provided 8 different perspectives on collaboration in the enterprise using the new tools. Amongst the many issues raised in a night of some great discussion and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged B2B, collaboration, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, events, Events & Networking, General Business, military tactics, Networking, SAS, smib, Social Media, social media week, special forces, strategy, Web 2.0 | 4 Responses

The SaaS applications wiki - open for business

The SaaS applications wiki – open for business

By David Terrar on February 12, 2010

Over on AccountingWEB’s forums (you need an AWEB account to log in, but it’s free) there have been some heavy exchanges discussing the barriers to adoption of Cloud solutions by accountants in practice in the UK.  I found it interesting, but sadly the dialogue has been too vendor driven, with plenty of verbiage from the […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Accounting & Finance, Cloud Computing, CloudAve, collaboration, enterprise, General Business, Groupware, On Demand, PBWorks, SaaS, Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikis, Xero

In Search of the Obvious - cutting through the marketing mess

In Search of the Obvious – cutting through the marketing mess

By David Terrar on February 8, 2010

When I first tweeted that Jack Trout’s new book “In Search of the Obvious” had arrived from Amazon, my mate @euan suggested his (excellent) blog is actually easy to find. He called it “The Obvious” because when he started writing about the application of new technology and social media in organizations, he felt that, actually, […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged advertising, al ries, design, General Business, jack trout, laws of marketing, marketing, Marketing & Media, marketing warfare, media, messaging, positioning, sales, Sales & Marketing, strategy

Social Media in the Enterprise - event report pt 2 of 2

Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 2 of 2

By David Terrar on February 4, 2010

Yesterday I blogged part 1 of my report on the Social Media in the Enterprise event that Alan Patrick and I cooked up (at Tuttle) to inject some enterprise related content in to this week’s “London Social Media Week“.  We had 8 speakers (originally 10, but Will McInnes of NixonMcInnes had travel problems, and Dr […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Blogs & Blogging, collaboration, enterprise, Events & Networking, General Business, Social Media, Wikis | 2 Responses

Social Media in the Enterprise - event report pt 1 of 2

Social Media in the Enterprise – event report pt 1 of 2

By David Terrar on February 3, 2010

I blogged that Alan Patrick and I were running the only enterprise related event as part of this week’s “London Social Media Week“.  Considering we only had the idea a week last Friday at Tuttle, and only promoted the thing with a few tweets, I’m both impressed and surprised that we had around 50 attendees […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, enterprise, General Business, Social Media, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Response

Social Media in Enterprises - the Elephant in the Ecosystem

Social Media in Enterprises – the Elephant in the Ecosystem

By David Terrar on January 27, 2010

What is it?As our contribution to London Social Media Week we are putting on Social Media in Enterprises on Tuesday Feb 2nd from 6 till 9pm at the Cass Business School in London (map is over here). Why? Well, at Tuttle last Friday Alan Patrick and I realised that there was no event for the […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged collaboration, England, enterprise, General Business, London, Networking, Social Media

Not *that* Esme, but prettier :-)

Thingamy with ESME points to where enterprise 2.0 is heading

By David Terrar on January 8, 2010

Yesterday I got the “lowdown” on how Thingamy, which Sigurd Rinde describes as a “Work Processor”, has just been connected to ESME, the microsharing and collaboration platform.  I believe  the combination is a big step forward for Sig’s solution, as well as representing one of several approaches that signpost the direction of enterprise 2.0, or […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Barely Repeatable Processes, brp, Business process, collaboration, enterprise, erp, ESME, General Business, Social Media, Thingamy, Web 2.0, workflow | 1 Response

Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration - but have they got the branding right?

Salesforce shows the future of enterprise collaboration – but have they got the branding right?

By David Terrar on January 7, 2010

A month ago on Monday 7 December I was sitting in the London version of the CloudForce2 Partner Summit, and then stricken by a virus overnight, I watched Marc Benioff livestreamed for the 2 hours and 15 minutes of his keynote in the general customer session on the following day.   It sounds like he did […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged chatter, collaboration, CRM, enterprise, financialforce.com, General Business, Marc Benioff, SaaS & On Demand, salesforce.com, Web 2.0

Can Cloud vendors move beyond the terminology debate?

Can Cloud vendors move beyond the terminology debate?

By David Terrar on December 18, 2009

I recently mentioned Richard Messik’s great post castigating Cloud vendors on their jargon overload in the panel discussions at Softworld back in October.  Over on AccountingWEB there has been some vigorous debate around the Cloud issues in discussion threads on whether accountants should be talking to their clients about Cloud Computing, the business case for SaaS, or the terminology itself.  If you meander through the discussions I draw three conclusions:
 There is plenty of confusion about…

Posted in Business | Tagged Accounting & Finance, General Business, SaaS & On Demand

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