Twitter — from friendly village to noisy megalopolis
A few things struck me today about Twitter and about one aspect of a World gone social. I subscribe to a great service called Timehop, which reminds me every day about tweets and Twitter conversations for this day but 1, 2, 3 and more years ago. It’s a great way to bring back things you […]
Unified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital Engagement are Intertwining
The rich history of digital collaboration in the last 30 years has been a long and winding one. Fortunately, it’s also been a highly rewarding story that has led to literally historic advances in workforce productivity and efficiency for most organizations. Along the way, many of these advances have led to and made possible entirely […]
Digital Transformation Adoption: A Point-by-Point Update
We did it! Finally, we reached peak of the hype cycle for Digital Transformation. Congratulations, we couldn’t have done it without your help. Thank you! I first wrote, seriously, about it earlier this year after many years of mentioning the coming paradigm shift that would revolutionize business (not an evolution like social media and social […]
Most Marketing Advice Tells Us How to Market to Marketers
Think about it–the experts out there writing marketing advice as part of their content marketing strategies are all selling something. They’re either selling software, consulting, or some other product. And the audience they’re selling to are marketers. Sure, many of them have practices or history that involved marketing to non-marketers, but right now what they’re […]
Personal Log: Social Media Detox, Not Sure I Like It
The Great Fire Wall Is Alive And Well Yesterday I arrived in Beijing, China. It’s my first visit to the Chinese capital and I’m excited to speak about innovating in the Cloud at Oracle’s Cloud World event (see Figure 1). Upon arrival, I went through my usual motions of logging in to wifi, taking pictures […]
GE’s PowerOn systems helping utilities to work smarter
We at GreenMonk have been researching and writing about the smart grid space for over six years now. It has long been a sector which resisted significant change, but no more. Several factors have come into play which has ensured that the smart grid we envisioned all those years ago, is now starting to come […]
How social business grew up
The management concepts that have evolved as social media has transformed global communication are now resulting in meaningful changes in the enterprise.
Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014
Many of you know that over the last several years I’ve tried to make the case that most organizations are currently falling behind the advancing pace of technological change. That business is so centered around technology today is the reason why addressing this has become a top competitive issue. Becoming better adapted to tech change […]
Shifting the Meaning of Hierarchy to Community
Over the last year or so, a fascinating bow wave of interest has been converging on a growing cadre of companies who appear to be doing something quite novel and seemingly new. Specifically, these organizations have apparently thrown off many of the traditional structures and processes of corporate management. Interestingly, all of these organizations are […]
Marketing in 2014 – Part Two
In Part One of this series I listed 6 issues that are causing disruption and change in marketing. In this post let’s focus on inbound marketing and the shift to a more content marketing focus and away from outbound or broadcast marketing tactics. This fundamental shift is often the underlying issue with most of the […]
