We all know that mobile is exploding. A simple exploration of network data projections shows that we have entered the "Age of Enterprise Mobile Computing." If your enterprise does not want to fall behind, it needs to begin immediately planning how to enable enterprise functions using mobile devices...
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Tags: 3G, Africa, Apple, Central Europe, China, Cisco, Eastern Europe, Enterprise, Get Smart, Latin America, Middle East, Mobile Computing, Salesforce.com, Star Trek, Traffic, United States, Virtual Network Index, VNI, Walmart, Western Europe, WiFi
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Market Analysis, Market Creation & Disruption, Mobile | 4 Comments »
This is my first in a series of 10 posts about how to build effective Social Media communities for business (and government). My first point is that is important to BEGIN with the understanding that Social Media does NOT "change everything," -- it simply adds several new channels for you to interact with your...
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Tags: Advertising, American Express, Belly-off, Call Center, Channel Management, Channels, Chat, CNN, Direct Mail, Direct Response Marketing, Email, iReport, Men's Health, OPEN Forum, Telemarketing
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Internet (1.0), Lead Gen & CRM, Market Creation & Disruption, Social Media / Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
Mark Gimein (of Slate's "The Big Money") recently posited that Twitter is “collapsing under its own weight” due to the sheer number of Tweets we all have to wade through. I agree. I recommend three steps to the leaders of Twitter to both make the service more useful and create a revenue driving service…
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Tags: Business Development, Competitive Intelligence, CTO, Customer Service, DICEE, Enterprise 2.0, Gimein, Kawasaki, Loyalty Management, Marketing, Meritocracy, Product Management, Revenue Model, Slate, TheBigMoney, Twitter, TwitterHawk, Wharton
Posted in Business Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Lead Gen & CRM, Market Creation & Disruption, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | 1 Comment »
The 2009 Gartner Hype Cycle Special Report evaluates the maturity of 1,650 technologies and trends in 79 technology, topic and industry areas. New Hype Cycles this year include cloud computing, data center power and cooling technologies, and mobile device technologies. Here are my Web 1.0 reflections and Web 2.0 prognostications based on this report…
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Tags: ADKAR, Amazon, Angie's List, AOL, Chasm Group, Creative Destruction, Epinions, Gartner, Hype Cycle, IM, Instant Messaging, Kobza, Meritocracy, Search, Twitter
Posted in ERP, Emerging Technologies, Internet (1.0), Lead Gen & CRM, Market Analysis, Market Creation & Disruption, Mobile, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | 1 Comment »
Yesterday morning (12am EDT to be exact), Facebook opened the doors to allowing its members to register and bind easy-to-handle usernames to their accounts (company and organization names are coming soon). This is yet another step along the road that will eventually make it impossible for new organizations to brand themselves using plain simple...
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Tags: AOL, Branding, DNS, Domain, DUNS, Facebook, identity, Namespace, Network Solutions, Registration, SEO, Twitter, Username
Posted in Internet (1.0), Market Creation & Disruption, Market Positioning, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | No Comments »
Last week, I participated in a panel discussion at the Wharton School on the effects of social networks on technology and business strategy. Here is a wrap-up of what I heard...
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Tags: Business Model, EMTM, Guy Kawasaki, Twitter, Wharton, WIMI
Posted in Business Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Lead Gen & CRM, Market Analysis, Market Creation & Disruption, Market Positioning, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | No Comments »
On May 22, Steve Ennen, Managing Director, Wharton Interactive Media Initiative will be moderating a panel discussion on the business and strategy in the Age of Social Networks. Here is some food for thought to those planning to attend...
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Tags: EMTM, Wharton, WIMI
Posted in Business Transformation, Change Management, Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Market Creation & Disruption, Social Media / Web 2.0, Strategy & Marketing | No Comments »
Obviously the world has changed from an economic, geopolitical and security perspective in the last ten years. However, much of the Web 2.0 world is feeling very much like Web 1.0 did in 1999. New web technologies have widely penetrated the consumer space. However, promised "transformational and disruptive" change has NOT been...
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Tags: McKinsey, ROI, Schumpeter
Posted in Emerging Technologies, Extending the Value Chain, Internet (1.0), Market Analysis, Market Creation & Disruption, Market Positioning, Social Media / Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »