Michael Porter

I track a bunch goings on for a bunch of vendors.  Alfresco, an open source ECM solution, just published a newsletter that talks about the concepts of core vs context.  Bill Robinson does a good job of explaining the concepts and applying it to his specific solution. Moore’s thesis, which would apply to any independent […]

Recently, I had the chance to meet Vernon Stinebaker, the author of this article on How to be Productive .  He’s a great guy.  I completely agree with his points in his blog post about focus being far better than working way too many hours.  I personally prefer to schedule a project plan for 8 […]

You here SCRUM all the time but the question is how do those sprints work especially when they are such quick turnarounds (2-3 weeks). Ethan Huang has a post on how one agile project went. It includes the good, the bad, and the ugly. Worth the time to view the pictures and progression of the […]

OK,  I should have published this a while ago. I just noticed it’s still in draft mode. IBM has been adding to their strategy with portal lately by providing industry specific toolboxes suited to specific suites.  It includes case studies, white papers, ROI /Value Analysis and most importantly, key assets to be used on your […]

IBM is putting a lot of thought into how portal, content management, social software, and a host of other technologies are evolving.  They first introduced their new strategy at their Portal Experience Conference in July.  They are going to be announcing more regarding this new initiative called Northstar this Thursday in New York City.  We […]

So these days, we never build a site without using some sort of rich interface.  IBM love DOJO. Liferay and others love JQuery.   You can also look at YUI and DHTMLx.  In talking to our developers, they are using JQuery a lot although it’s not perfect. On one client, we ran into issues where JQuery […]

Macworld has an article up on Facebook places and business uses for it.

Macworld has an article up on Facebook places and business uses for it.

Stuart McIntyre notes that a new white paper was published about how to measure the value of social software.  Worth a read.

Jonathan Distad pointed me to this article as well about social networking use increasing while at work. The article asks the question if this is completely unproductive.  To that I say that this is a blog and is part of the social networking paradigm and you are probably reading it during the day.  I think […]

So anyone trying to create a portal has had to do a mock-up of some kind.  Jonathan Distad, a Perficient project manager, pointed me to this post on mashable.com highlighting a number of kits that can help with this.

With the upcoming September 1, 2010 release of WebSphere Portal comes a new version of WCM.  Actually, the largest changes in the new release come from WCM.  The UI is very different and much easier to use.  They’ve put a lot of thought in making this something that really works for you.  For example, a […]