Salesforce.com and Oracle: A Tale of Two Worlds
In the current edition of First Thing Monday I opened by asking, “What’s salesforce.com doing at Oracle OpenWorld? At the…
Open and relational are going to win
With all the talk about technology, let’s pause to refresh with three basics — culture, conversation, and collaboration. These basics…
Why change management needs design thinking
Unfortunately, traditional change management tactics fall short of realizing successful change. Tactical change management plans are only as useful as…
Oracle OpenWorld 2009 update #1
Officially day 2 of Oracle OpenWorld but for me day 3 since I started on Sunday with the Oracle PartnerNetwork…
SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at SAP Executive Q&A – #sapteched09.Here at SAP Tech Ed 2009…
What carries you up will also bring you down
In Rules of Thumb, Alan Weber quotes legendary venture capitalist John Doerr discussing the original business plans for companies he invested…
A Wall Apps Pioneer Weighs In On the Topic
Robb Bush, an innovator at i2 Technologies in the '90s, and now with SAP, offered his perspectives on Wall Apps:…
Flash of the obvious: you are responsible for protecting your data
I really feel sorry for the modern consumer. None of us, even those of us with computer science degrees, can…
Blog-Bout: “Risk” versus “Monopoly”
A “blog-bout” is a good-natured debate between two bloggers. This blog-bout is between Jim Harris and Phil Simon, where they…
C-Suite Tweets
Will executive teams inevitably be texting and tweeting each other with Twitter? If so, here might be a team’s exchange…