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From Collaboration to Innovation to Market – Toward a Working Model

Too often today I see lots of hype around various social interaction methods in the enterprise. Companies talking about adopting things like facebook and twitter inside the organization. Some of this is just silly. Like somehow allowing employees to use facebook or twitter is going to help your business.  Collaborative initiatives that are divorced from a specific business purpose are disasters waiting to happen. The future technology to IT to customer to market integration paradigm will requ...

Future Technology Landscape Alignment for the CIO, IT Director, or Key IT Decision Maker

This series takes a look at the role of the CIO, the current technology landscape, where the gaps are, and this final piece looks at the emerging technology landscape and what the future holds. This is the last post on the future of business to technology alignment.  This four part series covers the entire breadth of the business to technology landscape of the future --, IT organizational alignment, business alignment, and future technology alignment for success in tomorrow's marketplace....

Changing the Direction of SAP, ERP, and IT Applications to Focus on the Customer and Innovation

  This is the third part of an ongoing series on where the application technology market is today, including ERP vendors like SAP, Oracle, and others--, and where the market is headed.  The series provides insight on how to get ahead of the current trends and ride the wave that is building rather than getting swept away with it.  The current business trends and market forces for technology will reward the swift and adaptable who are able to address the key business areas that have been lackin...