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JANUARY 30, 2013

It is a new day for Blackberry – the rebranding of RIM, the new 10 Smartphones But I am more struck by the management team that CEO (since last January) Thorsten Heins has been building.

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Management 290

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JANUARY 30, 2013

Rob Preston at InformationWeek picks on an annual list of innovative companies from Boston Consulting Group: “Meantime, show us the seminal innovations in 2012 from the likes of No. 17 Coca-Cola (caffeine-free Diet Cherry Coke?), No. 18 Dell (a nice.

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Boston Technology 287

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JANUARY 13, 2013

It is one of the most poignant quotes ever in the heat of the moment, and to me ranks with Neil Armstrong’s “One small step…” among others. And it only shows up in passing in the last 15 minutes of.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

I have written about the attractiveness of NetSuite’s cross-channel “commerce-as-a-service” capabilities to fast growing retailers like Ibex. Ibex uses NetSuite to manage customer interactions across smartphones, tablets, PCs and brick-and-mortar stores. So, I am not surprised to see NetSuite acquire.

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Channel Management Customer Cloud 274

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JANUARY 22, 2013

Last year I cataloged my major sources of innovation stories. We all have our favorites. Valley watchers focus on local startups. Apple and SAP fanboys hype up every burp in each of their cafeterias. Others like to scan academic papers.

Startup 270

Startup 270

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JANUARY 1, 2013

Tim Cook of Apple recently told BusinessWeek “I’ve talked to many other CEOs who look at me like I have three heads when I talk about getting hundreds or thousands of customer e-mails in a day. It’s a privilege. It’s.

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Customer 270

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JANUARY 28, 2013

Peter Goldmacher at Cowen and Larry Dignan/Dennis Howlett at ZDNet have painted in the last few days a bleak view of the social enterprise. It is interesting to read their comments in a week which starts with the Connect event.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

We all know how aggressive tech companies can be in enforcing all kinds of even minor patents. What is less discussed is the tendency of many to only grudgingly give credit to technologies they may themselves be embedding in their.

Technology 268

Technology 268

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JANUARY 2, 2013

Like most, I have watched the show on Capitol Hill for the last couple of weeks with amusement, irritation – and yes, some fascination. You see, in my career I have been part of many a technology negotiation. I have.

Technology 268

Technology 268

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JANUARY 29, 2013

I am glad I was part of a (virtual) fireside chat yesterday with Mark Hurd and Thomas Kurian on the Oracle Cloud before I read Bob Evans’ indignant post on Forbes which has the tone of “when is the world.

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Cloud Software 265

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JANUARY 11, 2013

“Rubbish” responded John Appleby to a tweet of mine which pointed out SAP evolves very slowly and that 95% of its revenues still come from older ECC and Business Objects licenses and maintenance. A few documents later the official numbers.

Revenue 262

Revenue Software 262

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JANUARY 10, 2013

SAP today announced its apps would run on its in-memory engine HANA. My reaction, as a CIO, would be “Here we go – the Gold stack now” (Gold as in prominent in the German flag and in SAP’s gold plated.

Engineer 259

Engineer Software 259

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JANUARY 18, 2013

I started my career at PW as an accountant. I have a long since expired CPA certificate as memory. It was good business grounding for an MBA and required experience back then before you could move into PW’s consulting arm.

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CPA 252

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Vala Afshar, Chief Customer Officer at Enterasys Networks, a unit of Siemens Enterprise, lists who he considers the 50 most social CIOs on Twitter. In a side conversation, I asked him if tech sector CIOs dominated his list. You would.

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Social Network Networking Conversion Customer 252

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Listen to tech vendors and the tool – HANA or Hadoop – is guaranteed to make you a data hero. Watch IBM commercials and each of their employees must already be a data hero. Data heroes are elusive, and get.

Employee 252

Employee 252

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JANUARY 19, 2013

I like to believe, somewhat naively, my innovation case studies and talks inspire everyone. Reading this GE Innovation Barometer report, it becomes clear that innovation stories also cause anxiety and stress. I guess I have had several clues myself. Brian.

Offshore 246

Offshore Cloud Software Technology 246

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JANUARY 23, 2013

The numbers are in SAP’s Total 2012 Non-IFRS Revenue EU 16.3 billion Revenue from “New” products introduced in last 5 years HANA 392 Mobile 222 Cloud 456 (incl Ariba) NEW 1070 So, roughly 6.5% of revenues from “new” products. Compare.

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Cloud Revenue Mobile Product 239

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Verne Harnish at Fortune talks about 5 ways to close big deals – now. Help the deciders earn more Quantify the cost of delay Get them to put skin in the game Submit three proposals Hire an Influencer And it.

Hiring 230

Hiring Cost 230

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JANUARY 9, 2013

on the innovation blog Kaggle’s algorithms Our low-tech cruise Whole Foods Cracked The “Big Data’ of the Audubon Christmas Bird Count Taking embedded technology to new heights The evolution of the video game Whole Genome Sequencing The Digital Dead Sea.

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Algorithm Video Technology 223

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JANUARY 31, 2013

I had one New Year’s non-resolution: Don't even try to compete with the 2012 New Florence 750+ post record. No Olympics or Presidential elections in 2013 to support that volume. Need to work on next book, and more consulting and.

Non-Compete 220

Non-Compete Technology 220

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JANUARY 26, 2013

Ashlee Vance at BusinessWeek uses the title to describe IBM's recent financials. But the title could apply to so many companies that are reporting numbers these days. It is a painful reminder that the reality is the inverse of the.

Software 220

Software 220

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Listen to any IBM or Verizon or SAP cloud pitch and somewhere, somehow the old bullet “We will turn your capex into opex” will show up. The elephant in the room is “Where do that customer capex disappear?” It should.

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Cloud Customer Software 220

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I had been at Gartner two years, having moved there from Price Waterhouse. A partner at a Big 5 competitor of PW called “I thought you left PW a while ago” suggesting I was biased towards PW. A year later.

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Partner 220

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JANUARY 16, 2013

on the innovation blog Google, Kurzweil and AI frontiers Kinect+Coke+AI+2PM = Japan’s Got Talent Pharma companies and beauty products Here’s looking at you kid Tech leverage of lower limbs 2013 CES Trends to follow Technology and auto accidents The New.

Technology 220

Technology Product 220

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JANUARY 25, 2013

I enjoy Chunka Mui’s work (it helps when you have spent a little time in person with an author) but I was dazzled by his Forbes piece on the broader implications of the Google autonomous car In fact, the driverless.

Technology 207

Technology 207

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JANUARY 13, 2013

on the New Florence blog Santa’s Mobile/Social Gifts Technology and Christmas Eve The Santa Math Project Waterford Arbitrage The Foti Fire Show Never Stop Searching Tim Cook: Time’s Runner-up for Person of the Year The Mobile Apps economy.

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Mobile Search Technology 207

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Consumerization is defined narrowly by many to cover trends like BYOD where employees are allowed to bring their own flavor of device to work. To me, this new tech savvy employee is far more interesting as a consumer looking for.

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Employee 207

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JANUARY 2, 2013

on the New Florence blog Tim Cook speaks FoxBots The Big Data that is earth at night Curate a TV show of your own “Tis the season The motion-capture technology behind Gollum The real secret behind German engineering Craft distilleries

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Curation Engineer Technology 199

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JANUARY 23, 2013

on the innovation blog Adobe Marketing Cloud The answer is blowing in the wind Consumer Reports Top Products at CES Disney’s MyMagic+ Dynamic pricing comes to retail The UAE as technology/innovation hub The Detroit Auto Show: the buzz is back.

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UAE Detroit Cloud Technology 191

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I have long been a Quickbooks user. Once you are set up, it is a low maintenance path to keeping books, quarterly and annual reporting. But 2-3 times a year I get irritated with Intuit, the publisher. a) One of.

Software 191

Software 191

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JANUARY 9, 2013

I like to occasionally scan Business Solutions magazine to get a feel for technology trends in the SME space, especially the January issue where it publishes its annual Best Channel Vendors list. If Rip Van Winkle were to wake up.

Channel 191

Channel Technology 191

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JANUARY 28, 2013

On the New Florence log The Harbin Winter Wonderland E-Cigs The Pebble smartwatch Silicon Prairie Sundance – now technology to support the indie filmmaker Fragmenting Light to improve Solar Cell efficiency The Facebook Graph Cirque + Cameron = Cool as.

Technology 186

Technology 186

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JANUARY 23, 2013

I wrote recently about the 50 shades of Independence, and highlighted Consumer Reports as a model for analysts and bloggers to emulate. They accept no advertising or corporate contributions. They purchase everything they test at retail prices. And they influence.

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Advertising 186

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JANUARY 6, 2013

on the innovation blog A geeky Hanukkah! Next-gen telepresence robots The Pope blesses – and challenges – Twitter The most claustrophobic lab in the world Making enterprise software more intuitive Technology in the new fast lanes CIO at the San.

Software 186

Software Technology 186