Jim Lundy

There is an unstoppable force at work (in enterprises) called users. Users are deciding how they want to use technology to solve problems and they are taking action. In a previous blog post, I discussed three CIOs who are beginning to adapt to this. Today, I will briefly discuss users.
Yesterday was a major day for [...]

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CIOs are under pressure to support end users and their desire to use Web 2.0 and social software tools in the enterprise.  Not every enterprise is ready to use Social Software and not every CIO embraces it. That is changing.
I recently moderated a five person panel at Cisco Live that featured CIOs from Intel and [...]

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I ran across a pretty good movie about Microsoft Office 2010 tonight on Youtube. You can watch it here: Office 2010 The Movie
The excellent production value of this new movie reminded me of one recently about Google that  might seem dated (version below is 2007), but in a way it foreshadowed some things about the [...]

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I asked a question on Twitter yesterday: Does your Enterprise Support Macs or Frown on them. I got some interesting responses that are posted below:
@JimLundy Windows PCs are the minority @ our company
Are Apple Macs supported in your enterprise or frowned on…. (via @JimLundy) Not frowned upon (a few around, incl my MBP. Not promo’d, [...]

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Collaboration is a hot topic these days and it is a top priority, according to Gartner’s recent survey of CIOs where Collaboration technologies ranked number 5 on the priority list. The problem is that some people get confused when the word collaboration is used. Here is Gartner’s definition of Collaboration from a research note that [...]

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Gartner’s Anthony Bradley and Dr. Nikos Drakos wrote a great Research Note last year that described the 7 Characteristics of Good Purposes for Social Software.
Summary
Successful communities result not from technologies, but from a properly defined business purpose. 
Below is the list of the seven characteristics.
1. Magnetic
2. Aligned
3. Low Risk
4. Properly Scoped
5. Facilitates Evolution
6. Measureable
7. Community Driven
To [...]

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EBooks are no longer a dream of the future. I peered into the past and dug out some of the research we wrote about eBooks and digital paper back in the year 2000. 
In Digital Paper: Is It Paper, a Display or Both?, Jackie Fenn and I wrote about the new medium that readers like the Kindle [...]

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Today I had a visit with a startup called SimplyBox. Suffice to say, I liked their offering, which combines bookmarking and content linking/saving in a very simple to use metaphor.
Instead of saving links or creating widgets, users simply highlight the item they want to refer to on a website and drag it to a ‘box’.  [...]

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Apple has been piling up the applications at its online app store for the iPhone. Current total is 20,000 apps available there (for free or a fee). People even twitter about them, asking friends to test them out, so they can get them in the store and start making money.
Google has 800 apps available for [...]

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There is lots of concern for Apple CEO Steve Jobs health at this point and I wish him all the best. It brings to mind all the stuff that went on last year at Microsoft, a year in which there was a considerable amount of public farewells for its founder Bill Gates.
Much has been written [...]

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