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OCTOBER 21, 2020

We cover a lot of ground around how on-premise and cloud applications fared as employees. In episode 8 of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I discuss how the world of the CIO has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cloud Employee 221

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

Most companies did a remarkable job moving tens of thousands of employees to WFH settings. In episode 4 of the Burning Platform series, Brian Sommer and I discuss what we have learned in the last few months about productivity, security,

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Security Employee Product 221

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

The CEO of a manufacturing company expresses frustration his plant employees have to key entries into the shop floor system. Why not a voice interface? And anticipating the objection, says don’t tell me they cannot use noise canceling technology to.

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Employee Technology 247

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

This past long weekend my wife and I were at two restaurants and one hotel, each of which was planning to shut down for a week or two for maintenance, to give employees some needed time off. I turned to.

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Employee 199

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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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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Well, expect a big employee.' In the last couple of weeks I have been in meetings where staff have brought every configuration of laptop, tablet, mobile device and we have chuckled about the joys of “Bring Your Own Device” policies.

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Mobile Employee 255

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JUNE 16, 2016

I then read CEO Jeff Weiner’s letter to employees announcing it. On Monday as I was going through the first edit of my book on automation, I heard of the whopper Microsoft bid for LinkedIn. Josh Bernoff calls the letter.

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Employee 150

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JANUARY 9, 2013

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

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Employee 252

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MARCH 31, 2013

The employees were cheerful and helpful as I looked for Birds of Paradise for Margaret's gardening hobby. I did a morning run to Lowes this morning. The morale was impressive considering they had been there since 8 am on Easter.

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Employee 220

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JULY 30, 2013

Or even write bestselling books about "Employees First". Most companies will say things like customers are our highest priority. Or quality. Or Investors. But SAP unabashedly says Our Partners are Job 1. Not sure how else to explain that SAP. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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Partner Software Employee Customer 207

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

Good on them for being proud employees of an iconic company celebrating its hundredth. First, some compliments. I am pleased to see so many IBMers comment on my post where I said we need more Apple/Google/Amazon moments, less IBM ones.

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Employee Software 275

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

They share a common trait – they are not entrepreneurs or employees. Maybe because of my books the last few years, but I have become much more aware of a large community of developers, musicians, authors, SAP Mentors, Oracle Aces.

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Community Employee Developer Entrepreneur 250

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JULY 26, 2012

Employees we love but who are drama kings/queens and cause more trouble than they are worth. We all have our filters. Customers we weed out because they are unprofitable. Suppliers which are habitually late with deliveries or get orders wrong.

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Employee Customer 210

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

If you have read his book Employees first, Customers second or heard him present on it, you know the CEO of HCL is an articulate fellow. But like many technology executives who try their hand at becoming industry analysts, the.

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Employee Technology Customer Offshore 262

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

the bundle priced at $30 a month an employee, or $75 a month on per-user basis. Earlier this year, I wrote about Zoho One ". It was launched in 2017 with 35 applications, it now has over 40.

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Employee Cloud Software 49

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APRIL 1, 2019

There are plenty of horizontal books of record -Workday for employee data, Salesforce for customer data, ServiceNow for service. I have been pushing software vendors to deliver vertical operational books of record in the cloud - for utilities, retail etc.

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Vertical Cloud Software Operations 41

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JULY 5, 2010

When I first heard of HCL’s “Employee First” philosophy I must admit I was a bit cynical. After all, it is almost trite to say “employees are our most valuable asset” when investor interests trump everything else in most companies.

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Employee 218