• Are CIOs a dying breed?

    March 12, 2008

    IT, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    Excellent article in CIO about the prognosis for the role of CIO. Read it in full here, but some good quotes with my responses; The true CIO is a strategic thinker focused on business issues and needs, and does…

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  • NZI report on broadband for New Zealand

    March 12, 2008

    Business
     

    As a follow up to last years report, and in light of recent developments, the New Zealand Institute has released a report entitled “Assesing New Zealand’s current broadband path: The need for change”. As is to be expected, the…

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  • Oracle brings 2.0 goodness to CRM

    March 12, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Web x.0
     

    Oracle’s latest release of it’s CRM product brings social networking functionality into enterprise CRM. Phil has some relevant comments and says; The lead component of Oracle CRM’s new social capabilities is a new feature called ‘Sticky Notes’. This allows…

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  • Hmm – I hope she takes her family…

    March 12, 2008

    New Zealand
     

    I don’t normally comment much on politics but this one I couldn’t resist. Seems a bunch of soon-to-retire MPs are taking a taxpayer funded trip to Europe (junket you say?). One of those MPs is Katherine Rich who only…

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  • Is Zoho a threat to Salesforce?

    March 11, 2008

    IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0
     

    No Not yet This post rightly points out that SF customers on the larger end of the size scale demand a level of service, performance and trust that Salesforce has spent the past 9 years building. It also says…

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  • Zoho moving up the busines size scale…

    March 11, 2008

    Design, IT, SaaS, Strategy
     

    Zoho, long known as the office productivity SaaS vendor with the fullest featured product offering, has this morning released Zoho People, a robust On-Demand HRMS – Human Resources Management System. People targets HR teams within organisations with over 50…

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  • Glad I’m not in Microsoft’s shoes…

    March 11, 2008

    Design, IT, Strategy
     

    Synopsis – MS shipped Vista knowing it wasn’t ready and that it wouldn’t run with all it’s functionality on many machines. Notwithstanding this knowledge they stickered machines as being “Vista Capable”, knowing that they could only run Vista home…

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  • SLAs for SaaS

    March 10, 2008

    IT, PaaS, SaaS, Strategy
     

    A little while ago the UnreasonableMen posted this, saying that to reach the next level of adoption, and to gain extra real estate and hence revenue, SaaS vendors need to think seriously about Service Level Agreements (SLAs). It was…

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  • On globalisation, M&As and manufacturing…

    March 10, 2008

    Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society
     

    There’s been a fair amount of hyperbole this week over the closure of two carpet making plants in the North Island. To give a synopsis of the situation, a few years ago Feltex carpets went bust. After a length…

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  • SaaS summit finalised…

    March 9, 2008

    IT, New Zealand, SaaS
     

    The 2008 SaaS summit programme has now been finalised. I’m both chairing the summit and presenting on the day – itlooks like a good lineup with some interesting speakers.

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