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2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 18, 2011

It was just over a decade ago that businesses were still wondering why it was necessary to have a Web site. Now it’s a foregone conclusion that they are one of the most important touchpoints for any organization to possess….

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Application programming interface, Cloud Computing, CxO Issues, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, google, Google Analytics, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, SOA, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 1 Response

Community Management: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability

Community Management: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability

By Dion Hinchcliffe on March 6, 2010

There’s been a lot of discussion in Enterprise 2.0 circles recently on the topic of something known as online community management. While precise definitions of this activity can be hard to pin down, most generally accept that it involves the…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Community, community management, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Open Business Models, Social, social business, social computing | 5 Responses

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 23, 2010

As organizations take a close hard look at cloud computing and how it can help them with their businesses, some are coming away unimpressed by the maturity or with concerns about risk, control, and privacy. Yet others are beginning to…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, databases, digital business models, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, Open Data, open supply chains, SOA, strategy

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs - The Impact of Technological Change

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 18, 2010

The rate of change in the IT industry has increased dramatically in recent years, but overall technological change has moved ahead even faster. Such is the pace that it’s been imposing a disruptive forward drag on enterprises and it’s been…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, CIO, Crowdsourcing, CTO, CXO, CxO Issues, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, iPhone, mobile, Open Business Models, shadow it, social business, social computing, social networking, Social Tools, technology, Web, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Response

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 5, 2010

There’s been some useful discussion recently about using the app store model for distributing enterprise software and services within organizations. Up until now, most IT needs in the majority of businesses have been met largely through one-size-fits-all delivery of solutions…

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged App Store, Business, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, infotech, mashups, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, SaaS, smbs, SOA, strategy, Web services, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) | 19 Responses

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs - Exploring The Macro Conditions

Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions

By Dion Hinchcliffe on February 2, 2010

Ray Wang began an excellent discussion last month that highlighted the major shifts and disruptive forces that the modern CIO faces today. It’s a given with most executives these days that the business landscape is quite a different one than it was just two short years ago. As part of this, many long-held assumptions and […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business Models, cios, Crowdsourcing, enterprise, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, Open APIs, Open Business Models, social business, social computing, transformation

Open APIs Mature Into a Next-Generation Business Model

Open APIs Mature Into a Next-Generation Business Model

By Dion Hinchcliffe on December 2, 2009

I’ve been bullish for several years now on the potential of using open APIs as a new channel to the online business world, in particular using them to scale up new business relationships quickly and cost-effectively. Internet technology has made this possible for for a decade or more, but it’s taken a while for awareness […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged API, B2B, Business Development, Business Models, Cloud Computing, cloud services, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, innovation, mashups, Network Security, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open supply chains, REST, salesforce, SOA, supply chain management, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web services, web services security, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Tags: amazon

Eight Reasons Why Data-Centricity Is The Future Of Business

Eight Reasons Why Data-Centricity Is The Future Of Business

By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 23, 2009

The data that our businesses own has become the name of the game when it comes to what ultimately lies at the core of economic value today, now seemingly more than ever before. We appear to be entering the era of the knowledge economy, where most of what we do in business (about 50% of […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing, data, data sharing, data-centricity, databases, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise architecture, Enterprise Computing, Industry Trends, information power, information sharing, integration, master data management, mdm, Open APIs, Open Business Models, open innovation, SOA, social computing, Web 2.0, web api | 1 Response

The Three Waves of Enterprise 2.0: Climbing the Social Computing Maturity Curve

The Three Waves of Enterprise 2.0: Climbing the Social Computing Maturity Curve

By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 18, 2009

As organizations begin to embrace social tools to collaborate, connect workers together, capture knowledge, and drive innovation they soon encounter a phenomenon that they weren’t necessarily expecting. As critical mass is achieved and general participation rises, there is a subsequent,…

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged business intelligence, community management, data, data silos, Database, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Computing, filters, Industry Trends, Open Business Models, search, semantic search, social computing, Social CRM, social software, Web-Oriented Architecture (WOA) Tags: adoption

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