Michael Porter

From an organization perspective, after getting a decent project manager or scrum master, you need to have a place to share everything about the project.  I personally don’t care if you use IBM Quickr, Microsoft Sharepoint, Confluence Wiki, or eProject.  You just need to get a place to share the following: Documents that are deliverables […]

The value of a portal comes from the time saved in putting out new functionality.  It means getting to market more quickly with new products.  A portal should allow quicker turn around when the business requests a change or enhancement.  Because portal is loosely coupled and provides a lot of configurable services out of the […]

Many of you have experienced the wonder of the written word.  You ask a question, the client says something which no one understands, you write it down and everyone agrees to it.  Several months later, you deliver something and it was not what they wanted.  Agile methodologies like SCRUM can get you part way there […]

Forrester recently release their Web Content Management Wave.  It’s striking less for the rankings and more for the information about trends and why they ranked the vendors the way they did.  I won’t reveal the Wave itself since I don’t have rights to distribute but I will note a few key findings. Welcome to CXM […]

For any given project, I see a common occurrence, at least one technology will be new or almost new.  Resources won’t have ramped on it.  In many cases, you may have a completely new development environment.   Both these issues can easily cause your project to head south or even to fail entirely.   That doesn’t need […]

Ephox just announced the release of their rich text editor, EditLive! version 7.6.  This is probably the best rich text editor on the market.  You see it OEM’d by a variety of vendors including IBM in the WCM product.  I like the flexibility it gives and the ability to integrate to it.  We are seeing […]

So it probably seems kind of odd that a portal and collaboration blog would blog about using a blog post for content marketing. In a way it almost seems crass. But hear me out, Tom Pisello mentions various ways to get the most bang for your buck which includes the use of content derivatives and […]

Lance Korsun made a comment on my recent blog about mashup.com’s review of mobile payment systems.  He said we should have had Square in there.  He makes a lot of sense because I’ve started to see it popping up quite a bit. Here are some examples: I recently paid for a taxi fare with Square […]

Mashable.com has an article about the future of mobile payments.  It’s an interesting article that tells you more about where it’s headed.   Both Google and ebay think it’s important.  My favorite is the list of contenders.

It’s a few weeks old but IBM had a press release about being the worldwide market share leader for social platforms. What I would be interested to know is how IDC scopes social platforms.  Is it the social networking tools created by IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Jive, Telligent and others?  Does it include instant messaging?  Does […]

eWeek has an article out about the recently released Oracle Virtual Desktop for iPad.  For those of you who want to use a mobile device but still need a full fledged client browser and your company uses Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure then this might be of use to you.  I […]

Yesterday I presented our 12 Things series as a webinar.  The presentation is the abbreviated version.   If you want to read the whole series you can look at the recap with all the links to each post here.