How “Financial Innovation” In US Financial Markets Stymied Real Innovation
After all the financial shenanigans by Wall Street that have been uncovered over the past decade, it’s a wonder we aren’t all back to stuffing our mattresses with bills. [SOURCE: (c) IMTFI, used under...
View ArticleFor Fun: If IT Products Were Marketed Like Cereal & Offbeat Analogies for IT...
Found some pictures I made over the last couple of years as social media gags about the IT industry. If IT products were marketed like cereal: Some analogies for IT cloud strategies: If you have...
View ArticleWho Are You Calling an Industrialist, Mr. Seth Godin?
The other day, renowned author and blogger Seth Godin posted his blog “Industrialists are not Capitalists.” He made a point that “capitalists”, as he calls them, are the innovators, and industrialists...
View ArticleThe Latest Pew Research Study of Social Media Usage– What the Pundits Aren’t...
Cross posted from my guest blog at Vtricity… All weekend different bloggers have been buzzing about recently published results from Pew Research about social media usage in the US. Mostly this is to...
View ArticleA Field Guide to The World’s Greatest Startup Ecosystems
The lore of Silicon Valley has startup culture in its very genesis, when Bill Hewlett and David Packard started their now venerable company in 1939 in David Packard’s Palo Alto garage for $538. The...
View ArticleHypocritical Innovators, Making Smartphones Smart, Salesforce Promises to be...
Some Good, Fast Reads From Last Week Greetings Geek Marketing readers. The last couple of weeks I have been pouring my heart into developing content for a few new initiatives I’m involved with. This...
View ArticleFacebook’s birthday reminders actually remind us that we are the product, not...
Facebook’s birthday reminders are a perfect example of a nice feature being totally ruined by interruptive advertising in social media services. Look at how much real estate is taken up by gift offers....
View ArticleUnveiling A Longer Term Vision for SAP HANA One – New Article in SAP Insider
My latest article for SAP Insider, co-written with my developer colleagues, has just been posted. “SAP HANA One Illuminates new Possibilities” is a deeper dive into the subject of my blog “SAP HANA...
View ArticleBali and the Double-Edged Sword of Globalization
I recently returned from a month-long trip in South East Asia that included a week in Bali. The whole trip was an amazing experience that will be fodder for a couple of more blogs. However, some of my...
View ArticleRevealing a Little Social Media Secret of Mine…
It’s time for me to unveil a little Twitter secret I’ve been playing with for a while. One of my spare time activities is mentoring entrepreneurs and startups. One company that I’m advising is...
View ArticleExpecting More From Business — Common Wealth Contributions By Business (Part 1)
My guest blog originally posted to the SAP Business Innovations for Sustainability Blog… Common Wealth Contributions By Business Much to the annoyance of some past bosses, I have a habit of asking in...
View ArticleExpecting More From Business — Common Wealth Contributions By Business (Part 2)
Part II of my guest blog at the SAP Business Innovations for Sustainability blog… This blog is a follow up to my prior blog Expecting More From Business — Common Wealth Contributions By Business (Part...
View ArticleWhy Bad Robots Bring Bad Hygiene to Your Twitter Account
Originally posted as a guest blog at vTricity.com One of the worst mistakes that newbies to Twitter do is choose the wrong robots to “help” them out. They accept these services in response to three...
View ArticleBefore the Social Media Marketing Settlers Arrived…
Reblogged from The Geek Marketing Blog: I am a marketer that engages in social media and blogging professionally. I figure the occasion of Social Media Week in San Francisco is as good a time as any...
View ArticleOn "Geek" Versus "Nerd"
Reblogged from Slackpropagation: To many people, "geek" and "nerd" are synonyms, but in fact they are a little different. Consider the phrase "sports geek" — an occasional substitute for "jock" and...
View ArticleThe Social Impact of Big Data – Seven Amazing Takeaways from Skoll World Forum
While researching for a forthcoming blog I’m writing about applications of “Big Data” for social entrepreneurs, I ran across this amazing blog series by the Skoll World Forum called “How Can Big Data...
View ArticleIt Still Takes People to Solve the Really Hard Problems
This blog is inspired by the article “Slow Ideas” in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande which discusses how some innovations spread swiftly, but many important ones are much slower, mostly because they...
View ArticleWhy Promotion is Frequently Ignored in Marketing
There’s a song that I remember from my old Boy Scout Camp Songbook that we’d sing to the tune of Auld Lang Syne: The fish, it never cackles ’bout it’s million eggs or so, The hen is quite a different...
View ArticleLabor is Obsolete
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” St. Francis of Assisi Labor as...
View ArticleExecution Rules, Strategy Drools !
Very good post by my colleague Vijay Vijaysankar: Real life seldom rewards the steps – only the outcome matters . My teams past and present have yelled and screamed at me for saying effort doesn’t...
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