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Throwing Sheep In The Boardroom

The above book is being excerpted on bMighty and in Chapter 14: Enterprise 2.0: Wiki While You Work, the author cites something I wrote a while back: CEOs instinctively know that internal collaboration, whether through rudimentary technologies like blogs and wikis, hold significant efficiency promise. They know the technology is relatively inexpensive compared to other types [...]

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NetBooks rebrands to WorkingPoint, hopes to create waves

The other evening I spoke with Tate Holt, CEO of WorkingPoint, the rebranded NetBooks. He told me that while the concepts behind NetBooks were fine, the execution was less than perfect. As a result, the company has spent the last year going back to the drawing board, figuring out what start up and very small [...]

Never fear transparency

Xero had an outage last evening UK time, 8.15am in New Zealand. The outage lasted 45 minutes and was attributed to data centre issues at Rackspace Dallas, its hosting provider. Xero isn’t alone. The Rackspace issue spread to others. As you can see from the sponsored feeds, the company kept users informed via its blog [...]

PWC: ‘We didn’t audit Satyam’

There are few things that leave me gobsmacked but the above headline from Times of India is up there among stuff that requires a double take. The detail: The questioning of Ramesh Rajan, chairman and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, India (PwC) by CBI last week, has revealed that the Satyam balance sheets were in fact audited by Lovelock [...]

My Diigo Bookmarks 06/29/2009

Jon Reed on SAP Consulting – Making Sense of Value Scenarios: Lessons from Sapphire 2009 Jon Reed’s analysis is useful for those wishing to understand the difference between advanced service SAP is offering. But I’m not sure we understand the cost implications tags: no_tag Post #e2conf thoughts – installment 2. More thoughts on E2.0 – not sure they’re terribly [...]

Weekend musing: sponsor success

As we come towards the end of June it’s good to see some of this site’s sponsors doing really well or introducing new ideas to the market. I make no apology for pimping what they’re doing because they are pointing the way to where we’re all going to be: FreeAgent Central nominated for a gong at [...]

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