technology

Earlier this year, AP reported “Some occupations are beneficiaries of the march of technology, such as software engineers and app designers for smartphones and tablet computers. Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating.”[read more]

Not only is the business of journalism changing, so is the journalism.   Many have written about the changing news business, how the economics of inefficiency that characterized newspapers ad sales, which still are the lion's share of revenues, don't apply in a world of plenty; how anyone with a smartphone and camera can act as a...[read more]

When I was a kid at summer camp, a letter was as precious as gold (or perhaps candy). If you got five letters in a week, you were rich. Most of the time, we stood by the mailroom, plaintively waiting to see if there was some sort of message from the outside world--only to walk away disappointed.[read more]

The post I wrote on the weekend, SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism, was on Techmeme for over 24 hours and was ranked by Topsy as one of the 100 most tweeted links , so this seems to be a topic of general interest. One of the best things about doing blog posts is that you uncover interesting...[read more]

  I had a great chat with friend and advisor Gil Yehuda on the topic of social business prior to my presentation at the American Marketing Association. The topic of “what makes a business social” came up during which Gil imparted his usual bit of wisdom with the following quote: “All businesses have always been social; what’s...[read more]

I recently received a survey that looked at ERP Implementation strategies. The results made sense to me.  It said the three most widely discussed are: Big bang - Implementation happens in a single instance. All users move to the new system on a given date. Phased rollout - Changeover occurs in phases over an extended period of...[read more]

Don’t worry if you don’t understand what Cloud Computing is. You’re not meant to. By its nature a cloud of any type is something vague or ill-defined. Were it any different, Cloud Computing would simply evaporate. The origin of the term Cloud Computing derives from early network design where a cloud represents what Douglas Adams once...[read more]

I had to talk to Ramon Ray before the end of this year. That's because I wanted to know what to look out for at the beginning of next year. Ramon, for the very few of you who do not know, is one of the leading voices in small business technology. He's the publisher of SmallBizTechnology.com, and is the co-organizer of one of the best...[read more]

This article was written to frame The Insight Exchange's SME Technology Summit in Sydney on December 1. While many of the references are to Australia, the issues apply globally. Small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are taking a larger share of the business pie and increasingly driving economic growth. This is one of the most important...[read more]

There's a clip that's been making the rounds in the last week of a Tom Brokaw spot from the mid-90's on "the Internet." I love the quick clip with Eric Schmidt (then of Sun) and the casual walk around with Bill Gates. I also really like the pitch for the IBM notebook that's "4 pounds". The amazing thing to consider is not how quaint some...[read more]

Interesting opinion piece by Gene Marks in Business Week called "Tech Solutions Your Small Biz Can't Use."  The gist of the article is a lot of technology is over hyped and not appropriate for small business.  It goes on to list 10 technologies that the author claims don't work for small business. The article was clearly...[read more]

IDC White Paper Business Agility as Growth Enabler: How Can Midsize Firms Manage Change in an Increasingly Demanding World? (pdf)IDCBusinessAgilityasGrowthEnabler.pdf[read more]

While Enterprise 2.0 is often described as “web 2.0 meets the enterprise”, what Enterprise 2.0 encompasses is much bigger. Enterprise 2.0 represents a radical change in the way businesses operate and is as much about the people, the culture and the processes as it is about the technology, tools and platforms. More than simply Web 2.0...[read more]