Michael Porter

I’ve been thinking about what motivates people to do the jobs of a knowledge worker.  When I talk to companies today, most of the concern they have around collaboration is about how to empower knowledge workers.  Most knowledge workers jobs have changed.  They need to focus less on the repeatable tasks and more on the […]

PC Week has an article on Sharepoint in the cloud.  I’m seeing the desire for cloud services among all vendors although Microsoft seems to be sprinting in that direction rather than the running by IBM and other vendors.  I love the quotes about people building applications on sharepoint and that it’s “many things to many […]

IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there.  We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]

IBM’s Impact conference focused on a variety of integration, commerce, analytics, and other solutions provided by IBM is next week. Perficient will be there.  We won the Smarter Decision Management award last year and we are always hoping to do better each year. For more information on what’s happening there and to track it, you […]

Sharon Bellamy over on the Connections Blog noted some key enhancements coming in the next release of IBM’s social software product, Connections.  Key but not from a feature standpoint is the rebranding of Lotus Connections to IBM Connections. New capabilities Moderating community content Community owners are provided with new capabilities for the moderation of a […]

Video has an impact. Look at what’s changed in the entertainment world. Whit Andrews saw Nick Acosta let people video her concert and then she videod them.  He started with this video If you don’t find a corporate YouTube they will put everything on YouTube. At that point, it’s beyond corporate control. What’s driving the […]

Don Tapscott is known for Wikinomics and the Grown Up Digital.  He spoke about a revolution underway that is changing business. Revolution Welcome to the age of the wiki revolution.  It’s enabled by social media.  It’s not enabled by a centralized opposition putting everything together.  It’s a tool for military action.  Social Media was used […]

Whit Andrews is a great presenter whose focus is on search, video, and a number of other topics.   Enterprise search is now mature.  The number of Google searches for the term enterprise search peaked over 4 years ago. The point is that search is now an adult technology which should be granted a level […]

You see a lot of employees bringing their own devices into the enterprise.   This can be both good and bad. Ken Dulaney and Leslie Fiering talk about what you need to address if you allow employee owned devices in. Prediction: Although 80% of enterprises will have employee owned devices connected to compamy networks by 2015, […]

Gary Dolsen of IBM and David Yoo of Kaiser Permanente spoke about social business and great web experiences. I will admit to being biased because Kaiser is my client and we’ve worked hard on helping them create a great portal platform for kaiserpermanente.org Gary Dolsen 95% of standout organizations will focus more on getting closer […]

Gene Phifer, the father of portal at Gartner, spoke about Portals and his view on where they are headed.  I have to admit I like the title.  I agree that they are mature but things are still changing. Portal continue to change with new methods of portal integration, new delivery models (cloud), and a new […]

Revolution in collaborative models is happening today.  Start earlier with Easter Island.  The civilization on this island collapsed because of their complexity.  The civilization failed to changed based on changes in their environment.  We have examples of that today. Think about Blockbuster………….. The tension between the complex and the simple business model.  In LA, “In […]