Doug McKibben recently published a research note on social networking and commercial banking (paying Gartner clients please see “Social Networking for Commercial Banking: An Opportunity and a Challenge for Banks”). Social networking, online chat, blogs and mobile services are among the leading-edge communication and networking technology phenomenon that have become...
Social Networking and Commercial Banking
November 20th, 2009 · by Kristin Moyer · no comments
Sales force automation provides no competitive advantage.
November 20th, 2009 · by Michael Maoz · 3 comments
Watching the fortunes of the Fortune 500 gyrate in the chaotic machinations of world trade, you have to wonder if there is any advantage to investing in only one leg of a customer strategy. The biggest names in software have been touting sales force automation (SFA) applications for years, and...
Friday Filler: If The Sun Rose in the East, You Had a Cyber-Attack Today
November 20th, 2009 · by John Pescatore · no comments
For some reason, the SANS Newsbites didn't use my comments on the item below, so here it is to fill the Friday blog: US Government Agencies Say Incidents Are a Daily Occurrence (November 10 & 11, 2009) A CDW-Government survey of 300 US government IT professionals found that 44 percent...
Will Microsoft Exit the Ad Server Business?
November 19th, 2009 · by Andrew Frank · 4 comments
When Microsoft acquired aQuantive in 2007 for roughly $6 billion – an 85% premium – ostensibly to counter Google’s then-recent purchase of DoubleClick, some wondered whether competitive instincts were clouding judgment. AQuantive consisted of the interactive agency Razorfish, which Microsoft recently sold to Publicis for about $530 million, DrivePM, a...
What makes a good CIO great?
November 19th, 2009 · by Mark McDonald · 7 comments
Good question, tough answer. Jim Collins provides ideas regarding the differences between good and great. He discussed them at these years Gartner Symposium CIO Program in Orlando. Collins, the best selling business author and advisor, has studied the differences between good and great companies and leaders for more than twenty...
Midsized Businesses: Security on a Shoestring
November 19th, 2009 · by Adam Hils · one comment
With colleague Ruggero Contu, I've written a "buying behavior" note hased on a survey administered to security professionals from midsize companies in Western Europe (Italy, Germany, France), and BRIC nations (Brazil Russia, India and China). This study compares the two groups' tendencies, and contrasts them with large enterprise behaviors. Make no...
Government 2.0: Lost in EU Declaration
November 19th, 2009 · by Andrea Di Maio · 6 comments
Every other year the ministers responsible for e-government in the EU member states, candidate accession countries and those in European free trade area meet to discuss respective progress on e-government as well as common future objectives. This year they are meeting at a conference in Malmo (Sweden) on November 19-20....
Links 11/19/2009
November 19th, 2009 · by Jim Holincheck · no comments
Compensation Cafe: Coffee's for ClosersGreat post on the essence of pay for performance.tags: HCM, talentmanagement, compensationPosted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here....
Semi-Agreeing With David Kibbe
November 18th, 2009 · by Wes Rishel · 4 comments
It is likely not a coincidence that David and I independently posted thoughts on the NHIN last night. The ONC has the HIT Policy Committee looking into it and this is generating interest the HIT blogging circles. His post is The Health Internet vs. the NHIN — A Matter of...
How Will BPM Deal with Pattern Based Strategies (PBS)?
November 18th, 2009 · by Jim Sinur · 4 comments
PBS is about orienting scenarios and policies around the “seek, model and adapt” cycle. Gartner is putting a fair amount of wood behind the PBS arrow and it just makes sense that BPM will play strongly to support PBS. BPM supports the kind of agility necessary to adapt to shifting...