As part of the Collaborate to Innovate initiative, the Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network and CMO Council have aggregated articles from a wide variety of sources to help executive gain insight into the economics, operations, best practices and challenges of today's business networks, supply chains, and value chains. Browse the pages below for news coverage and trends across all major industries.
06.28.10 Marel Selects AT&T to Provide Global Communications Network - Market Watch AT&T today announced that Marel, a leading global provider of advanced equipment and systems for the food processing industry headquartered in The Netherlands and Iceland, has selected AT&T to provide a global communications network in a five-year multi-million dollar contract. |
06.15.10 DIRECTV and NCC Media Join Forces for Revolutionary Advertising Partnership - Market Watch DIRECTV, the world\'s largest satellite television service, and NCC Media, the fast-growing advertising sales company that represents America\'s cable operators and works with advertisers in every US market, have today announced the formation of a groundbreaking partnership that will have a wide-ranging impact on the TV advertising industry. The new agreement will allow for one-stop access to locally place ads on a wide selection of networks in the vast majority of multichannel satellite and cable homes through NCC. |
06.14.10 Cisco's Quad taps into iPad for business collaboration - ZDNet Cisco has unveiled its enterprise collaboration software platform, Quad, which will let workers use their iPhones and iPads as well as social-networking features to share information and locate colleagues across their business. |
06.09.10 Customer Collaboration Is Top IT Priority for Telecommunications and Media Companies - Market Watch At the Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo, Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company, today shared independent survey results on information technology (IT) priorities in the telecommunications and media industries. The survey found that 80 percent of these companies feel the recession is behind them or nearly halfway over. To prepare for spending growth, the vast majority of respondents (79 percent) plan to increase the focus on sales strategies and 63 percent indicate that better customer collaboration is of top importance. |
06.09.10 Customer-Focused Retail Technology Lagging Behind Operations-Focused Strategies in Retail - Market Watch Data from Aberdeen\'s November 2009, Automated and Connected Store report indicates that only 65% of retailers measure and track CRM data in stores and other sales channels, leaving a large customer mindshare gap and lost revenue opportunity. |
06.07.10 CSR and Intel to Collaborate to Take PC Connectivity to the Next Level - Market Watch CSR announced it is collaborating with Intel Corporation to jointly develop a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combination solution for the PC market, as part of CSR\'s ongoing selective partnership strategy. This will support the latest Bluetooth standards to enable new usages and improve the performance of the next generation of laptops, netbooks and other mobile devices. The Bluetooth and Wi-Fi combination solution is being designed to enable users to synchronise content such as music, photos and contact information with their PCs in a fraction of the time it takes for the same operation today. The resulting products are expected to benefit the computer industry through the combination of CSR\'s industry-leading Bluetooth technology, and market-leading Wi-Fi technology from Intel. |
06.02.10 Tobii Announces Collaboration Agreement With P&G - Market Watch Tobii Technology Inc., the global market leader in attention and visibility measurement technology, announced today that Procter & Gamble, the world\'s largest consumer goods company, has made Tobii one of its preferred partners for scaled virtual market research solutions. The agreement will also enable Tobii to collaborate with P&G on Tobii product innovations. P&G will use Tobii solutions for package and shelf testing on a global basis to increase speed to market with products that meet and exceed consumer expectations. |
06.02.10 HP Delivers New Collaboration and Consolidation Solutions for SMBs - Market Watch HP today announced new communication, collaboration and networking solutions to drive growth for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). The company also introduced new storage solutions and online services that enable SMBs to efficiently protect data and manage operations. These offerings enable SMBs to streamline communications and operations while deploying more efficient routes to market in order to expand business opportunities. |
05.26.10 Ariba and IBM Match Buyers and Sellers in the Cloud - Market Watch Ariba plans to integrate its cloud solution, the Ariba Commerce Cloud, with IBM LotusLive to help buyers and sellers communicate and share information more fluidly and effectively, leading to faster, more confident business decisions for organizations of all sizes. The news came during Ariba LIVE, the premier conference for business professionals engaged in buying, selling or managing cash being held at the JW Marriot Grand Lakes in Orlando, Florida. |
05.25.10 ProtonMedia Adds IBM's Cindy Skirvin to Executive Advisory Board - Market Watch As a member of ProtonMedia\'s Executive Advisory Board, Skirvin joins Cisco\'s Greg Pelton and Microsoft\'s Sam Batterman to provide the company\'s management team with input and counsel related to development of its 3-D virtual collaboration technology, strategic industry partnerships, business development, and overall corporate strategy. Specifically, she will provide valuable insight into corporate training and learning programs, human capital management, and how these programs are deployed by enterprises. |
05.24.10 IBM makes big acquisition - wral.com IBM says it is buying AT&T\'s Sterling Commerce unit, which makes business collaboration software, for $1.4 billion. The deal announced Monday would be IBM Corp.\'s largest acquisition since it bought Cognos in 2008.\"The acquisition ... will expand IBM\'s ability to help organizations create more intelligent and dynamic business networks by simplifying and automating the way they connect and communicate with customers, partners and suppliers both on-premise or through cloud computing delivery models,\" IBM said in a statement. |
05.20.10 Nuance and IBM Team to Advance Next-Generation Natural Language Speech Technology - Market Watch BURLINGTON, Mass. & ARMONK, N.Y., May 20, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nuance Communications, Inc. and IBM today announced that the companies recently entered into a five-year joint-research initiative designed to advance next-generation natural language speech technologies. Leveraging Nuance and IBM\'s research and development expertise, the initiative is designed to expand the global use of speech technology and set new benchmarks in design, usability and technical excellence. |
05.18.10 Huddle Nabs $10.2 Million for U.S. Expansion - The New York Times Business collaboration startup Huddle just announced a $10.2 million second round of funding. The money should help the company stay competitive in the crowded collaboration market, with particular focus on expansion in the United States. |
05.11.10 IPC Extends Global Collaboration with Equinix to Meet Growing Demand for Its Global Electronic Connectivity Services - Market Watch IPC's private, secure network interconnects more than 200 cities across six continents, and provides an ideal connectivity option for the members of the Equinix electronic trading community looking for industry-leading resilience, dedicated bandwidth and the highest levels of service availability. Equinix IBX data centers support a global financial community of buy-side and sell-side firms, hedge funds, execution venues, market data suppliers, network providers and trading technology vendors -- all interconnected inside a neutral, open marketplace. Equinix has expanded quickly in the world's key financial markets to become the data center for the well-connected, offering the lowest latency connectivity and collocation capabilities via 87 major data centers around the world. |
05.05.10 Avnet Readies Resellers for Success in the Cloud - ebizQ Partners can target high-growth market opportunities that center on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud solutions through a combination of public, private and hybrid delivery options. Tied to the SolutionsPath technology and vertical market practices, these cloud services are channel-ready and delivered in collaboration with Avnet’s partners. |
04.27.10 Ex-SAP CEO talks about 'the next big thing' in IT - Bloomberg Business Week "The next big thing is not so much optimizing processes within a company, but optimizing inter-company processes, and it can only be done on collaborative platforms," Apotheker said. Apotheker discussed the recent Icelandic volcano eruption, which brought European air travel to a painful standstill for days. Stronger business-to-business collaboration tools could have helped transportation companies work more effectively to find alternatives for stranded travelers, he said. |
04.22.10 CIO Tenure Worries: Are Competing Roles Dragging You Down? - CIO The top-performing companies in this year's survey differentiated themselves by more closely integrating business and IT. However, based on the survey data, roughly half of respondents—both business and IT—are neutral or agree with the statement that the CIO does not have a positive working relationship with the company's business leaders. Does that sound like a key ingredient for a lengthy CIO tenure? |
04.19.10 Starbucks Releases 2009 Global Responsibility Report - MarketWatch "While we were faced with difficult global economic conditions last year, we remained steadfastly committed to the responsible practices that have defined our company since its founding," said Ben Packard, Starbucks vice president of Global Responsibility. "Collaboration has been a key component of our strategy. By engaging external experts, business partners, and other organizations in 2009, we gained valuable insights that will help shape our path forward." |
04.13.10 Hilton Worldwide and IBM Announce Global Technology Infrastructure and Solutions Agreement - MarketWatch Hilton Worldwide and IBM announced a global collaboration agreement to enhance the hospitality company\'s technology infrastructure and to facilitate the development and delivery of next-generation technology solutions. Specifically, IBM will host and manage the technology platforms that support Hilton Worldwide\'s ten brands, including data center management and monitoring, global email services, web hosting and the central guest reservation system. Today\'s announcement will enable Hilton Worldwide to focus even further on its core business -- delivering exceptional guest experiences -- while leveraging IBM\'s innovation, expertise and global capabilities. |
Supply chain and contract manufacturing teams finally have the tools they need to control production and optimize outsourced manufacturing. Teams can create a business cloud to coordinate production across dozens of manufacturing projects and products or to handle one-off production runs on an as-needed basis. Selectively improve your manufacturing performance with the Tier-1 partners or drive collaboration with long-tail suppliers that have been virtually impossible to connect with. |
04.08.10 ERP - What does it mean today to us today? - IT Director As economists and financial analysts suggest that the global economy is moving towards recovery, the focus is very much on operational and strategic initiatives that will help to position companies for the upturn. Visibility, collaboration and control across the global supply chain are key, and successful strategies in these areas are separating the industry leaders from the laggards. This means real time location and associated details are important. |
04.05.10 Supply Chain Executives Are Utilising Horizontal Collaboration To Cut Transportation Costs And Maximise Efficiency – New Report Reveals How And Why - Supply Chain Market Horizontal collaboration is an area of increasing media and industry attention. It is a term that relates to when semi/direct competitors consolidate portions of their supply chain together for mutual benefit.Horizontal collaboration is being hailed as the most profitable supply chain innovation to surface this year. |
04.01.10 Tally’s collaboration network benefits partners - CRN “Over the past one year we have signed on close to 450 TI partners, who have independently built 900 independent vertical solutions. We are now enabling our partner ecosystem to deliver, deploy and cross-sell these solutions,” said Shiv Kumar, Associate Vice President, Tally Solutions. TI partners are essentially independent software vendors who have built vertical-specific software applications based on Tally ERP 9. |
03.30.10 Five Ways IT Can Help Optimize Global Supply Chain Management - SDCExec.com In a global economy, strong partner relationships and collaboration are crucial to all logistics organizations and their partners. Fragmented functionality cannot be tolerated within the successful supply chain; rather, partners should be working closely with one another on a fundamental level to ensure the success of the supply chain partnership. |
03.25.10 One and one make eleven for the Customers of a successful IT organization. - CIO For an enterprise, Internet today enable collaboration amongst globally dispersed product R&D and development teams, automations in Supply Chain, new cost effective opportunities for Marketing, dialog between customers and Sales teams, shortening of sales cycle and enhanced quality of customer support to name a few. |
03.17.10 Companies Still Struggling With Islands of Integration in Their Supply Chain, According to Survey - Market Watch "Because no company is successful alone, more companies are realizing the manual processes with their customers, partners and suppliers in their value chain are hampering their ability to compete," said Brian Gibb, vice president, Business Integration Product Line, at Sterling Commerce. "By connecting, communicating and collaborating with their full partner roster, not just the top 20 percent, companies are better able to take advantage of post-recession opportunities." |
03.15.10 AirWalk Communications Migrates to LTE Wireless Technology - WSJ MarketWatch AirWalk Communications, the innovator in IP-based CDMA cellular radio network equipment, has collaborated with Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. and Aricent(R) to develop an LTE picocell. |
03.09.10 India's Next Outsourcing Wave - BusinessWeek Despite the unpopularity of outsourcing in the wake of the financial meltdown, I am convinced that "Third Wave" Indian IT players—those outsourcing specialists that U.S. companies can rely on as strategic partners for high-end work—can help prevent future disasters. IT companies around the world have a huge opportunity to collaborate and join forces in the next few years. |
03.01.10 Demand-Supply Networks: Success Factors in 2010 - Supply Chain Brain Economic volatility has been the cause for the majority of supply chain disruptions in 2008-2009, forcing companies to put an increased emphasis on supply chain management. In today’s multi-enterprise demand-supply networks, process collaboration, closed-loop integration between planning and execution, and enhanced focus on intelligence and performance management become key to success. |
02.23.10 Crossgate Announces Global Reseller Agreement with SAP; Relationship Encompasses Next-generation B2B Strategy - Market Watch Crossgate Inc., the global expert in business-to-business integration (B2B), has announced a global reseller agreement with SAP AG, through which SAP will resell Crossgate's B2B engine and associated partner profiles under the name SAP(R) Information Interchange application by Crossgate. The solution, available today, allows customers to streamline business-to-business (B2B) processes and enables a business-ready network, and also demonstrates SAP's continued commitment to delivering additional choice and flexibility to customers through collaboration with partners. |
02.15.10 Alcatel-Lucent and Sequans Collaborate on LTE Solutions - PR Newswire Alcatel-Lucent and Sequans today announced their collaboration on LTE solutions for operators of TD-LTE networks in Asia and Europe who are planning to offer services at 2.6 GHz. The first result of this collaboration in response to this significant demand will be a Sequans 2.6 GHz USB dongle to be used in operator trials in 2010. \"Through this partnership, we are exhibiting our commitment to creating a vibrant LTE ecosystem and to supporting operator goals of demonstrating the value of TD-LTE in delivering advanced services to end users,\" said Georges Karam, Sequans CEO. |
02.11.10 FedEx Couriers Play Cupid This Valentine's Day - MarketWatch This exclusive Valentine's Day arrangement marks the first time in its history that FedEx Express, the world's largest express transportation company and a subsidiary of FedEx Corp., has worked with an individual company to deliver on a Sunday. This is also the first time that FedEx has planned for Sunday deliveries specifically in support of Valentine's Day. This collaboration will leverage the extensive FedEx Express network and expertise in supply chain logistics. FedEx Sunday deliveries will allow ProFlowers to reach recipients in locations around the country on Sunday, February 14. |
02.09.10 Tatas learn to innovate - Business Standard Another barrier to innovation was that the various Tata companies wouldn’t talk to each other. There was always scope for collaboration, but seldom was it exploited. This was because large group companies like Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals and Indian Hotels Company were run like independent fiefdoms. So, TGIF decided to set up InnoClusters — groups of companies that could work together in different areas. |
02.01.10 Supply Chain Guru Predictions for 2010: Full Comments - SupplyChainDigest.com In the coming year, replenishment planning will aim to provide improved supply-demand matching by looking at broader supply picture and embracing better forecasting techniques. Supplier collaboration would prosper beyond three and four-way matching or PO portals to include improved order updates upstream in the supply chains (date changes, partial deliveries, substitutions etc done systemically). It will also provide near-real time updates until the goods reach their destination, be it a buyer distribution center or a 3PL warehouse or the end-customer. |
01.25.10 Enterprises Say Better Collaboration Between Business and IT Is Most Critical Issue to Their Organizations - Business Wire Enterprises say that better collaboration between business and IT is the most critical issue their IT organizations face, according to a recent study conducted by alfabet at its international planningIT eXchange 2009 event during November 2009 in Berlin, Germany. “Our survey confirms that Business IT Management is being used as a strategic lever to make the IT support for the business more agile, innovative, cost efficient and standardized,” said Erik Masing, CEO of alfabet. “Mid to large-sized organizations are demanding integrated and automated IT planning processes to support the partnership between business and IT. Such processes ensure that business and IT are using the same information base to communicate and collaborate regularly and clearly and provide transparency for all stakeholders on strategy, demand status, project status and investment decisions.” |
01.21.10 LaserGifts Selects Epicor(R) Distribution to Streamline Supply Chain Management and Improve Warehousing Capabilities - CNNMoney.com LaserGifts is leveraging Epicor Distribution to help streamline the complexity and sheer volume of order placements required by larger retail stores. Epicor is a powerful, yet easy-to-use ERP software solution for manufacturers, distributors and business services organizations that combines Web 2.0 concepts with Epicor True SOA(TM) to deliver an enabling business architecture that offers unparalleled levels of flexibility, usability, and agility in support of application-to-application integration and business-to-business collaboration. Epicor\'s end-to-end features provide a dynamic user experience and real-time, in-context business insight -- making \"business without barriers\" possible. |
01.14.10 One resolution for 2010: Understand your own company - Purchasing.com Andrew Houser, vice president for supply chain at Commercial Metals Company (CMC), and his supply chain team set in motion programs that could save tens of millions of dollars in logistics, procurement and demand planning in the coming years. He stressed the benefits of supply chain work, like collaboration with all segments, a greater understanding of company operations, the ability to quantify their contribution to the bottom line and the opportunity for creativity and innovation. |
01.11.10 Supply Chain Visibility Drives Excellence - Supply Chain Market As the degree of global collaboration grows and global supply chains become even more complex, it is likely that visibility systems will continue to be a collection of discrete systems, with leading companies most successful in integrating them and gaining a more end-to-end and close-to-real-time visibility of their supply chain operations. The report examines the capabilities that top performing companies are deploying and strategic alliances they are using to capture, integrate and optimize the myriad of supply chain events of their overall global enterprise. |
01.08.10 Taiwan courts US collaboration in energy sector - Taiwan Today A delegation of Taiwan businesspeople, led by Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs Hwang Jung-chiou, visited the United States Nov. 29-Dec. 8, 2009 to scout for business opportunities and identify corporate partners for collaboration in the energy sector, as many U.S. states are giving priority to tapping “green energy.” Explaining the rationale for seeking collaboration with U.S. companies, Lan said PV is still expensive to produce, and collaboration helps reduce costs. “Taiwan has a booming PV industry whose costs are reasonable and much lower than in the U.S.,” he said. |
01.04.10 Anatomy of Agile Enterprise - ebizQ As the perspective shifts from value chain to value network, the nature of strategy changes from defensive to proactive. In the extended enterprise and knowledge economy, the focus of strategy is on value innovation. Rather than outperforming the competition, value innovation aims at making competition irrelevant by offering fundamentally new value and by creating new markets. In coevolutionary collaboration, agility, synergy and ecosystem dynamics are emphasized over efficiency and economies of scale. |
12.21.09 Importance of external and internal collaboration - ZDNet When we talk about collaboration or knowledge sharing, we often assume that this refers to what is occurring within the enterprise. The fact is that there are two types of collaboration: internal and external... |
12.16.09 Unstructured Collaboration is Key to Increased Innovation and Business Agility in 2010 - IndustryWeek In today\'s fast-moving high-tech industry, business agility is an essential capability for success. Business agility requires rapid decision-making capability fueled by ready access to key business information such as supply and demand; customer needs and wants; and competitive and general economic dynamics... |
12.14.09 Future Differentiation of 'Social Media' from Collaboration - ZDNet ‘Social media’ seems to be becoming even more of a hindrance to the successful application of 2.0 technologies to solve specific business problems as time goes on... |
12.11.09 Collaboration is key to innovation in packaging supply chain - LogisticsManager.com Open communication and collaboration within the supply chain is key to innovation in packaging, according to a group of packaging suppliers and brands including Walki, Boots and Heinz. |
12.11.09 Global collaboration enables Kraft Foods’ culture change - Greener Package Project-by-project, Kraft Foods’ global business units, with leadership from the company’s corporate sustainability team, are creating a culture where sustainability is a part of every package design. |
12.08.09 Partner collaboration key to business success - Computer Business Review Collaborating with partners is a business priority, but companies are struggling to untangle the growing complexity of their supply networks, according to a survey. |
11.30.09 2010—Risk or Opportunity? - SupplyChainBrain Trust, goal congruency, and collaboration are characteristics of the most “mature” supply chains because they demonstrate integrated business planning and a lean, adaptable infrastructure. Fully collaborative supply chains create a shared risk/reward, with all parties incentivized to reach common goals and mutual long-term benefits. |
11.30.09 Can Google really hack it in business? - ComputerWorld After conquering the search world, Google is now pushing hard to be a major provider of business software, tackling longtime dominator Microsoft over productivity and collaboration apps. But does this company, most famous for free consumer-oriented offerings like search and basic apps, have what it takes to be taken seriously by business? |
Firms looking to reduce risk and acknowledge their interdependence are seeking more collaborative ways of working through partnerships and joint ventures. Perhaps we will see a flourishing of supply chain finance – in which firms with the largest, most solid balance sheets help finance their smaller suppliers or customers. |
11.18.09 Enterprise collaboration to rely on Web 2.0 : Gartner - Business Standard “There are fundamental differences between working styles that are file-oriented and document-based and those that are Web 2.0 and browser-based,” said Jeff Mann, research vice president at Gartner. “Understanding and accommodating these differences will be important factors in determining the success of collaboration platform introductions.” |
11.18.09 Supply Chain collaboration can be a Balancing Act - Bangkok Post Over the last decade many initiatives have arisen to encourage collaboration across the supply chain, ranging from sophisticated IT planning systems to Efficient Consumer Response (ECR). Many initiatives assumed that adversarial behaviour could be driven out of trading relationships between retailers and manufacturers for mutual gain. But there are always areas of friction, margin negotiations or trading terms being two examples. What is new, however, is the realization that better understanding the differences will create opportunities to deal with the constraints trading partners face. |
11.09.09 Sterling Commerce Cited as a Leader in B2B Service Providers by Independent Research Firm - CNNMoney.com Sterling Commerce, an AT&T Inc company, today announced that it has been named a Leader by Forrester Research in its October 29, 2009 report, The Forrester Wave(TM): B2B Service Providers, Q4 2009. The company\'s business-to-business (B2B) services included in the report were Sterling Collaboration Network, a hosted service that provides secure connectivity and collaboration between businesses, and Sterling Commerce Managed Services, a B2B outsourcing offering. |
11.09.09 Cisco Breaks Down Barriers to Business-to-Business Collaboration - CNNMoney.com Cisco today announced significant product introductions across all categories of its collaboration portfolio. The company also announced its entrance into two new markets, enterprise social software and hosted email, with the goal of bringing the collaborative power of online social communities to businesses. The new product introductions span real-time and asynchronous collaboration applications, and collectively take advantage of the power of video and voice-based communications to help enable natural, person-to-person and business-to-business collaboration across all media and devices. |
10.26.09 Power Your Business with the Real Time Web - TMCnet.com The new evolution of the Internet focuses more on collaboration rather than sharing. Called Real Time Web or Web 3.0, it helps information to get “pushed” to the people who are interested in your topics, products or services. In other words, if a person is interested in something your company is involved in, produces, offers, or manufactures and that person has specified those parameters of interest in their Web settings, then whenever you release information, it would automatically get sent to the person, rather than the person having to search for it. |
10.14.09 Cisco, Verizon Find IP Collaboration Pays Off - InformationWeek There's always been a suspicion among IT practitioners that collaborating on IP platforms would result in savings, but the proof has been elusive. As of Wednesday, that changes with the release of a study commissioned by Cisco and Verizon that quantifies a "dramatic return on investments in advanced collaboration tools." |
10.14.09 Study: Advanced IP technologies improve performance - CEDMagazine.com Companies that deploy the most advanced IP-based collaboration technologies see more than twice the return on their investments and perform better than companies that don’t use the same tools, according to a study by Frost & Sullivan. The study, which was sponsored by Verizon and Cisco, examined how professionals in businesses and government agencies get their work done by using advanced collaboration tools such as VoIP, instant messaging or meeting via high-definition video or Cisco’s TelePresence conferencing service. |
10.07.09 Will Web 3.0 shatter your current business model? - BizTimes.com Aged-old assumptions underlying many business models no longer hold true as Web 3.0 technology changes how we communicate and communications infrastructures... |
09.22.09 Enterprise Applications: 10 Collaboration Platforms to Consider for Your Business - eWeek.com Collaboration is the cornerstone of getting work done in the enterprise. |
09.21.09 Business Collaboration via Social Media - VON In a hyper-connected world, we’re all familiar with the difficulty in keeping work in its place: It’s just too tempting to pull out the BlackBerry at dinner when a big project is underway at work. But Briggs thinks the next great wrinkle will be a reversal of that trend, where the social life will intrude into work life, instead of the other way around. That means that people work more in the cloud and in less hierarchical ways, and collaborate en masse to provide corporate feedback. Call it communication-enabled business processes. |
08.11.09 Building a Collaborative Engagement Model - Information Management The current business environment driven by socioeconomic changes has impacted IT and global delivery models to the point where they must reinvent themselves. The flat-world phenomenon is witnessing a reversal of sorts as organizations that have outsourced in the past or who are planning to outsource are required to adapt to this change... |
08.10.09 Channel 2.0: “Collaborative Ecosystem Management” - Customer Innovations We are in the midst of a dramatic shift in the way business is done. In most industries, a much more open and collaborative network model is replacing the traditional closed and controlled firm-centric view of the world. This shift has been well documented by my colleague Don Tapscott in his bestselling book Wikinomics. Don is the head of nGenera Insights (a Customer Innovations partner)... |
08.09.09 Add Value Through Actionable Intelligence - Intelligent Enterprise Best-in-Class companies outshine average firms at cutting cost, reducing headcount and gaining returns through ERP deployments. A new report from Aberdeen Group finds that an integrated approach to ERP and business intelligence projects makes the difference... |
08.06.09 Business Collaboration Could Transform the Economy - The Christian Science Monitor America's obsession with narrow, short-term self-interest has produced a moral crisis. "Collaborative enterprises" such as Whole Foods and Nucor show that cooperation can be profitable for everyone. |
07.27.09 Cross-vendor collaboration key to invention, says IBM - ComputerworldUK IBM has said more IT vendors and users will follow its "Smarter Planet" stance, with the world getting "smarter" through today's technology... |
07.26.09 Tips for More Efficient Collaboration - PC World Agile applications, efficient collaboration among co-workers, and interconnecting people and processes are the three main pillars that optimize business performance... |
07.13.09 Google's App Inventor for Android: The Wrong Bet For Serious Mobile Enterprises - ZD Net Some will argue that App Inventor is a “game-changer,” being the latest free/cheap, easy-to-use product from the Magnificent Minds in Mountain View that is wresting things out of the hands of the IT department. They will compare it to Google Docs and Google Calendar, which small departments and businesses are embracing for quick collaboration instead of waiting for the corporate developers to fiddle with SharePoint. |
02.19.09 Despite Economy, Unified Communications Still a Technology to Watch - Channel Insider Solution providers say their customers are adopting more and better collaboration technologies, and their employees are the ones driving the decision-making process... |
01.09.09 How ‘Who You Know’ Affects What You Decide - MIT Sloan Management Review Informal decision networks – both within teams and throughout organizations – can systematically bias the way decisions are framed and carried out. Here”s how to build your networks right... |