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social media & social networks
Why is WeChat so successful in China ?
This morning, when I woke up in Paris, I received an instant voice message sent from my nephew from China via WeChat. At only four years old, he is already able to use it to contact me on a regular basis. WeChat, also called WeiXin (微信) in Chinese, is actually…
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digital Transformation
Big Data: there is a dire need to get back to basics
Back to basics! Belgian expert Pierre Nicolas Schwab’s piece on Big Data based on his past assignments with companies trying to launch such initiatives. When I discovered Pierre Nicolas’s prose, I must admit that I felt better for discovering that the issue of “small data” is ubiquitous. Big Data: there…
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Digital technology
Legal Copy of Microsoft Office With CloudOn
Let’s make the most of the summer with a bit of light reading and what I would call the application of the week: CloudOn. I have selected a number of applications which I find particularly good or changed my way of working, or of entertaining myself unless it’s both. This…
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digital Transformation
Marketforce Set to Improve European Shopping Experience
Shopping experience monitoring and mystery shoppers aren’t anything new; this marketing technique dates back from the 1940s. It was then used even before the term “marketing” had been coined. Yet, MarketForce, a US company with offices in Britain, and more recently in France and Spain, have begun to revolutionise the…
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Digital technology
What innovation really means: the data center robotics example
Data Center robotics can help us understand innovation a little better. We’ve already asked this question many times. What is innovation? What does it mean to build/sell/buy something “new”. And inevitably, as we ask this question, we leave a door open to interpretation. “innovation is in the eye of the beholder”…
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Digital technology
5 major trends for the future of IT and the Web seen from Silicon Valley
What are the major trends for the future of IT and the Web seen from Silicon Valley?The Orange Blogger bus tour – of which I am the organiser on behalf of Orange – was stopping by San Francisco today and the whole day was hosted by Orange Silicon Valley. Georges Nahon…
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digital Transformation
Change management: 9 lessons for implementing change
Change management lessons are not to be found in books but in the field. On the 19th of October 2011, in Exeter in Devon, I delivered a keynote at Like minds. It was entitled “confessions of an intrapreneur.” It was made of these anecdotes and tips, which were all used to…
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Marketing & Innovation
Sujal Patel: EMC shares a joint ambition with Isilon on storage
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…
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Marketing & Innovation
Terry Cunningham of i365 reinvents the VAR business
Our 4th visit of innovative companies in Silicon Valley was devoted to i365, a Seagate company. The presentation was delivered by Terry Cunningham, President and GM of i365, George Hoenig, head of products and services and Valerie Fawzi, head of Marketing. The topic was the reinvention of the VAR business.…
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Digital technology
Fusion-io: flash io-memory, flash results, flash growth
Fusion-io isn’t just about flash io-memory technology, it’s about scaling up. On November 16, we paid the scale-up a visit. Fusion-io is the epitome of these successful technology companies as can be found almost only in the US and which make this kind of press trips so useful. Fusion-io: flash…
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Digital technology
Cloud computing: StorSimple battles against “cloud washing”
Cloud washing is just like greenwashing for cloud computing. On November 15, after Zscaler, we visited StorSimple, provider of Hybrid Cloud technology. Ursheet Parikh is one of the 2 co-founders and the CEO of StorSimple, a promising start-up operating in the storage domain, based in Santa Clara, Calif. Cloud computing:…
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Web, Internet and the Economy
Memes and Memetics: Why we copy each other – Susan Blackmore
I have interviewed Susan Blackmore, author of “The Meme Machine”. In this interview, Susan reminded us of the basics of Memetics and the Meme concept?” Memes and Memetics: Why we copy each other Susan Blackmore – “The term ‘meme’ was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.…
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