by A.C. | October 15, 2010 | Comments Off
The Opening Keynote sets the tone for Gartner’s Fall Symposium event. This year’s theme focuses on New Realities, Rules and Opportunities. Warming up the crowd, as tradition, are Gene Hall and Peter Sondergaard. The presenting analysts for the keynote are interesting in that I’ve never seen the same analyst twice within a 3-4 year period. [...]
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by A.C. | October 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Gartner’s Fall Symposium event kicks off this Sunday. I’m pretty excited as there are several interesting sessions that I hope to hit. Follow me on Twitter (antonychan) throughout the week for the latest happenings at this event. CIO Town Hall: Social Media Social CRM: The Next Generation of Customer Innovation The External Information Crisis: Will [...]
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by A.C. | May 5, 2010 | Comments Off
I had a great conversation with a CIO today. And, it occurred to me that the word “collaboration” gets thrown around a lot. Either we’re not doing it, or we need to do it better, and on and on. Even with something like this, there tends to be misconceptions that technology will make this happen. [...]
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by A.C. | April 20, 2010 | 7 Comments
I’ve always loved the concept of crowd-sourcing. Here are some of my recent favorites over the last few years. 1) Netflix Prize – $1M to the team who could make the greatest improvement to Netflix’s recommendation engine. The team that won, BellKor’s Pragmatic Chaos, was comprised of statisticians, researchers, scientists and engineers. As Gavin Potter [...]
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by A.C. | April 11, 2010 | 2 Comments
I recently had the pleasure of attending Gartner’s CIO Leadership Forum event in Phoenix, AZ. Like any other conference, there were a wide range of presenters. But, the speakers that really stuck out in my mind were Keith Ferrazzi and Doug Solomon. I liked Keith so much that I’ve added both of his books, Never Eat [...]
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by A.C. | March 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
Hello World! Now that’s a timeless opening, right? So, let’s get through some formalities. I go by A.C., which is short for Antony Chan. I’ve had folks all my life try to insert an “h” in my first name. I got so fed up with it early on (first grade to be exact) that I [...]
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by Brian Hellauer | March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
