Michael Porter

I use my mobile phone more and more often to do things like: Find the nearest Sky Club at the Atlanta airport (I seem to spend far too much time connecting through there.) Check-in for my flight Check balances on bank accounts Track my passwords Many, if not a majority of my clients who deal […]

I’m reading the Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande.   It’s a fascinating read based on the observation that more errors today come not from ignorance but from ineptitude.  In other words, mistakes are made despite the knowledge that we have……….knowledge that could have averted the error.   In the medical field, this can have catastrophic results.  In […]

OK, it’s not a perfect analogy to say that innovation = collaboration.  However, I do believe that you can make a point that with today’s complex world, innovation usually relies on a team of individuals.   Teams are complex beasts that have their own set of rules. The larger the teams become, the more difficult it […]

You can file this under some self-promotion but I was featured in a portal keynote video.

So I’ve been asked twice in the last week about “traditional” portal technology vs social networking software like Lotus Connections, Jive, Wikis, etc.  It’s usually in the context of, what if I just used this cool social networking software for my employee intranet?  My quick answer is that yes, you might be able to do […]

OK, everyone was waiting for some big announcement and about two hours into the keynote, we got it.  It’s interesting that the announcement wasn’t a brand new product but rather, a continuing vision and buildout of collaboration and social networking functionality in all products within the Lotus brand.  Their main focus starts with Lotus Notes. […]

WebSphere Portal is the flagship portal product from IBM and lives in the Lotus brand.  Portal version 6.1.5 was released in November 2009 and has a number of enhancements built around the user experience. In sessions today, Larry Bowden went through their main goals and what’s going to be happening:  Here’s a quick hit: What […]

So Lotus showcased support for Mobile in a fairly big way. They stated that they have developed and will continue to develop mobile UI from the ground up to provide the best user experience for all their applications (Portal, Notes, Connections, Quickr.)  Here is a list of what I heard regarding Mobile: 1. RIM (Blackberry) […]

I’ll be at Lotusphere all week.  You’ll probably see more posts today because that’s the time IBM reserves for anouncements.  First off from the keynotes is Quickr, They have plans for both the Domino and the J2EE versions. The Quickr J2EE upgrade will be  3X faster. Will features improved Both versions of Quickr will feature […]

I’m at Lotusphere this week.   I’ll be blogging on key announcements and visionary thoughts.  One of the first key announcements is Lotus’ recent announcement that Panasonic chose their email to LotusLive.  They decided to go to the cloud for email and potentially social collaboration services.   I don’t know much about the deal other than the […]

I think I’m going to dwell on this much more in depth later on but I just noticed that IBM announced the upcoming release of Blackberry clients for Lotus Connections and Lotus Quickr.  I think the trend is that companies demand access to key portal and collaboration systems and that vendors are starting to recognize […]

I’m speaking at Lotusphere 2010 next week.  IBM’s Lotus brand usually holds a lot of their big announcements for this time so expect to see some cool things.  Here’s what I’m hoping for from IBM: Discussion on what we will see in WebSphere Portal version 7 that’s due out sometime this year. A view into […]