Anthony Bradley

Back in 2007 and early 2008 I anticipated a rapid rate of enterprise mashup adoption. Just about everyone, including me was talking about enterprise mashups as a new paradigm for end user computing where business users would rapidly assemble and reassemble applications in a highly dynamic fashion. Users can “create applications as fast as the [...]

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I have created many successful software application pilots in my day. But these were more traditional process based applications that didn’t hinge on community adoption and participation. Pilot’s are intended to mitigate risk by basically validating that the process and software supporting that process will serve the needs of a “system actor.” This made sense [...]

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There have been a slew of surveys and press recently that have indicated that social media is a security threat and a productivity drain and that many, if not most, enterprises are “banning” social media (examples; Half Survey, BBC, survey, Marines, Hollywood, WSJ, and NFL).
This may lead people to believe that enterprises are not pursuing [...]

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In response to a Computerworld citing a study finding that “54% of U.S. companies say that they have banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace while on the job, I did a little survey of my own with these results. I left the survey up to possibly collect more [...]

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I just finished publishing a research note set on mobilizing the grassroots with social media initiatives to help our clients gain the benefits of grassroots while mitigating risks.
Enterprises are struggling to capitalize on social media and deliver collaborative solutions with high business value. Because there are so many ways to improve enterprise collaboration (among [...]

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Indulge me a moment to set the storyline. The San Antonio International Piano Competition was last week. My wife and I had the pleasure of hosting one of the competing pianists Weiwen Ma. For five days she practiced on my piano from about 9:00 AM to Midnight with an amazing display of prowess and dedication [...]

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Last week I blogged on a recent article out of Computerworld citing a study finding that “54% of U.S. companies say that they have banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace while on the job. This seems very high so I conducted my own survey via this blog (the [...]

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A recent article out of Computerworld cites a study commissioned by Robert Half Technology, an IT staffing firm finding that “54% of U.S. companies say that they have banned workers from using social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace while on the job. The study, released today, also found that 19% of companies [...]

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Last week JackBe announced the formation of the Open Mashup Alliance to support an XML-extension specification called EMML (Enterprise Mashup Markup Language). JackBe is a leading boutique mashup platform vendor and EMML is their mashup language. They are the only ones using it now but they have “donated” it to the cause of mashup executable [...]

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In a client conversation yesterday I was going through my now standard monologue on purpose, purpose, purpose as the three most important criteria for social media success (playing off the 3 most important principles for success in real estate…location, location, location). And I brought up the high failure rate of the “provide and pray” practice [...]

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