Year: 2011

Aisis will be driving growth in emerging markets, Adrian Ho from IDC declared during his “new technologies & future priorities for IT departments” presentation. He was replacing Sandra Ng who unfortunately couldn’t attend that meeting. IDC: 70% of future growth in emerging markets will come from Asia Asia is shaking…

The Workspace of the future, an industry analyst perspective In his introduction, Michael Burrell from Orange Business Services described  some of the main market trends include: Consumerization of IT, tuning the way that IT is working on its head. The millenials are also changing things in the workplace Mobility is…

What’s the state of the global economy? Daniel Thorniley (left) runs his own private business consultancy, but in his own words, he is not a “loser”. He has 235 Corporate clients even though he is on his own. He was able to acquire so many clients because he knew them…

Why is Blog writing is the slow and subtle art of pondering? A few days ago, I came across a piece on Bnet on which there was a mention of Sun Tzu‘s “the Art of War” in not very favourable terms. I therefore asked the Vincent Berthelot, who is very…

Hockey legend Mark Messier taught us some great leadership lessons on May 10, 2011, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The guest speaker at that Orange Biznis meeting was the much revered Canadian Ice Hockey legend Mark Messier, who is now retired. Mark had come to share with us some of his best tips…

Tyson Foods’ Hunger Relief Program is a very good social media business case. I was going through my files today and I found this old piece written after a Blogwell event which took place in New York two years ago. So here it is with much delay but I thought it…

Our friends from Likeminds in Exeter have asked me to write a little piece about me and the Web and it didn’t have to do with business matters, so there it is, with a few literary references of no consequence. “Ha tutte le carte in regola per essere un artista”…

On March 29, at Blogwell, I attended that presentation by American Express Pepper Roukas, on the members project campaign. Amex has focused a lot about brand management on social media, but this particular business case is about how to drive business through social media. Amex: members project social media case study at…

Walmart’s Lisa Thurber presented her internal social media platform called mywalmart.com at the 2011 blogwell session which took place in New York City.  Walmart, social media and change management Walmart social media numbers More than a million of registered employees engage on that platform and the site delivers something like…

On March 29 I attended the Sabre holdings presentation at Blogwell in NYC. a presentation by Susan Via, Manager Community Marketing and Engagement & Lorie Robinson, Product Marketing, Sabre holdings Sabre holdings: the great community race on social media Sabre is a major player in the airline reservation industry. Passenger…

EMC has just taken over Isilon and both businesses share a common understanding of where the storage business is going. On November 17, as part of our November US press tour, we went outside of Silicon Valley. We took an early morning flight to Seattle to meet with the representatives…

Our second presentation at Isilon’s headquarters was dedicated to a closer look into Isilon’s software-driven storage solution and the visit of its lab. Brett Hestsel, VP of engineering, gave us a more detailed presentation of Isilon’s distributed storage architecture. Brett has been with Isilon for 3 years, after working 10…