Recently both BusinessWeek and Fast Company published their respective 50 most innovative companies list. I have “mashedup” both lists in the chart below and edited the lists a bit. (Where there is overlap I indicate the difference in ranking order between lists.) There was much to garner from these lists, beyond the corporate rankings individually.
What [...]
Today I had the great fortune to attend the Center for Information Management Studies (CIMS) program at Babson College. I almost didn’t go – having just returned from the Enterprise 2.0 conference, I was feeling a bit “full” of talk on collaboration and technology. But luckily three things coerced me into attending.
1. The event was [...]
Thanks to the generosity of Randy Corke of Chaordix, this Wednesday I had the opportunity to go to a meeting of the Ad Club. The Ad Club is the trade organization for marketing, advertising and communications in New England. A different crowd for me. So why was I invited? Why did I go? The topic [...]
IAM Alert: Amazon.com has announced a “definitive agreement” to purchase the ecommerce, “powered by service” Zappos.com for 10 million shares of Amazon stock (current market value of $807 million). (see the Letter from the CEO – Tony Hsieh – to Zappos employees, describing the drivers and benefits behind the acquisition)
Amazon has long been held up [...]
Those that know me, as well as loyal readers of this blog, know that I am an ECM zealot – some say a nerd. So perhaps this post is just another ranting – but I felt compelled to reiterate myself because of certain current events.
I entitle this post with a familiar quote from Charles Dickens’ [...]
Is the legal industry ready to change their standard practices in billing, particularly given the economic climate of 2008-2009 and at least the short-term future?
If they do change that model, will it least, or go back to “business as usual” when the economic smoke has cleared?
Knowledge = precedent = expertise. Why not efficiency and effectiveness [...]