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Last week, IBM decided to move more jobs overseas. To ease that bitter pill to clients worried about offshore service delivery, particularly in the wake of the Satyam fiasco, IBM also filed for a patent on an outsourcing methodology...

Some examples of how the traditional tools have moved to the Enterprise 2.0 category.  I tried to the links/ roots to the corresponding Web 2.0/ social products in that category. Before Web 2.0/ Social Tools Enterprise 2.0 examples (V1 Partners) Knowledge Management, Content Management Wikis, Blogs, Microblogs Atlassian, InXero, SPINACT Email/ Contact database Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Twitter, LinkedIn Yammer, Taglocity Project Management/ Design tools Yahoo! IM, [...]

Over the last few years we have seen a shift in software industry. Traditional software companies offering on-premise/ packaged software are now competing with alternatives that are SaaS based business and delivery models. (GoogleApps vs. Microsoft, Monster vs. Corporate internet, Salesforce.com vs. Siebel), Netsuite vs. SAP, WebEx vs. ….) Like any new technologies, the question is [...]

From cumulusIQ Blog earlier today.. SAP recently decided to solicit ideas for business-friendly social networking applications from a crowdsourcing platform, Innocentive. SAP got 1,239 responses, which it is currently evaluating to find the best proposed solution. The experiment went so well that SAP submitted another idea to crowdsourcing, this time in search of a vendor-independent way [...]

Today’s enterprises are a legacy of the thinking and the structures that were put in place based on successful companies during the industrial revolution. These enterprise were driven by inventions and manufacturing as their core competence. These corporations were created before the advent of the information age, large scale globalization and at time when [...]

From my recent Blog entry… A recent interview conducted by Charlie Rose with SAP co-CEO Leo Apotheker and Harvard Business School professor Andrew McAfee touched on the future of IT and how it will continue to create competitive advantage for those who are able to integrate the best of business processes with the best in software [...]

Paul Rubens at ServerWatch surveys the relative valuations of Sun and Red Hat: Let’s take a look at Sun Microsystems, the once mighty Unix vendor and maker of servers that powered the Internet, circa 1982. And Red Hat, a company that’s been purveying Linux software since 1995. Sun sells more than $13 billion of goods and [...]

Oliver Marks and I have launched the Open Enterprise 2009 research study (see Open Enterprise 2009: Research Study and Report, and A four minute discussion of Open Enterprise 2009). We will be working over the next six months to research the state of Web 2.0 tools, architecture and techniques in the enterprise, their adoption, application [...]

(Reposting from my blog at Coffeeagain…) Last Wednesday, as part of our “Design Discussions” session, my team and I watched the “Paradox of Choice” lecture by Barry Schwartz. We had watched Barry’s talk before but we loved listening to the talk again. While the whole talk is relevant, one area that is particularly relevant to Product Design [...]

Plantronics sponsored a contest to find a replacement for the somewhat tired ‘Teleworker’, and a panel of judges chose ‘Cloudworker’: A cloudworker is somebody who uses on-demand technology and collaboration tools, such as unified communications, to work anywhere and anytime, and uses the resulting freedom to enable a my-size-fits-me career path and lifestyle. The metaphor of [...]