2012 Is Shaping Up As the Year of Open APIs
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….
Community Management: The Strategic New IT-Enabled Business Capability
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…
The Enterprise Data Cloud: Why Information Power Is The Future of Business
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…
Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – The Impact of Technological Change
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…
The Enterprise App Store And Self-Service IT: How SOA, Saas, And Mashups Will Thrive
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…
Social Business and Next-Generation CIOs – Exploring The Macro Conditions
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 […]
Open APIs Mature Into a Next-Generation Business Model
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 […]
Eight Reasons Why Data-Centricity Is The Future Of Business
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 […]
The Three Waves of Enterprise 2.0: Climbing the Social Computing Maturity Curve
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,…
