Going Up the IoT Stack with ThingMonk and The Business of IOT, Shoreditch London Dec 2,3,4
Never knowingly under-ambitious I decided to build on the success of Thingmonk last year, but adding another day, dedicated to business issues and industry transformations led by the sensor/Big Data/automation IoT revolution. So now we have a hackday, followed by a day of technical talks, followed by a day of talks for people that normally […]
Uncovering the Agile Elephant
At our social business event back in September, during Social Media Week London, we could feel something in the atmosphere. A mood in the room, a sense of excitement and change. Digital disruption is happening at a rapid rate. Everyone’s business model is under threat from the move to digital across all industries. The average […]
What next for Social Business? Patchwork Elephant Event Report
As part of London’s Social Media Week we put on an event called Social Business – The Patchwork Elephant Revisited asking “What next for Social Business?”. We were kindly sponsored by our friends here at CompareTheCloud.net and we introduced the event and the speakers in an earlier post. The idea was to get 8 different […]
Can Huddle be the next Autonomy?
UK-based software success stories have been a rare commodity and one of the most successful until its $10 billion acquisition by HP has been Autonomy. Now London-based enterprise cloud collaboration provider Huddle is aiming to follow in its footsteps. Here are some pointers to how that could work. The cloud collaboration and content management space in which […]
Tech-hugging eurocrats imperil innovation puppy
Europe needs growth and cloud computing has a role to play. But are policy makers too eager for rapid results? An event later this month may yield some answers.
Social Media Week London – more out than in
Earlier this month, starting February 7, Social Media Week ran in 9 cities, with plenty of events running in London. I watched some of the live streams from Likeminds based events that sounded very good in terms of content although they hit some broadcast problems, kept in touch via the Twitter hashtag and then I […]
London Wiki Wednesday – enterprise taster for Social Media Week
London Wiki Wednesday, the evening meetup for wiki geeks, business geeks and anyone wanting to discuss the use of social media technology inside their organisation is restarting for 2011 this Wednesday February 2nd – 18:15 onwards for a 19:00 start at NYK Shipping near Moorgate. Back in 2007 and 2008 we had almost monthly sessions […]
Time to reveal cloud’s silver upside
Vendors should focus more on promoting the business benefits of cloud. We should not be spending all of our time on the defensive, letting objections about security, reliability and governance dominate the conversation.
Trading Partners: Does Restructuring Portend Changes in the Reverse Auction Market? (Part 1)
Last week, my soon-to-be partner in crime in a new Spend Matters UK/Europe site, Peter Smith, broke the story that Trading Partners is going through what appears to be a period of turmoil involving staff redundancies (layoffs) and…
Upcoming: London Tweetup on Saturday July 10
Please join me for a casual gathering on Saturday, July 10 in London
