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  • The Cloud Industry, What I Do and My Motivators – Part One

    January 10, 2013

    Business
    adoption, Business, cloud computing, dropbox, Information technology, Krishnan Subramanian, Server Message Block, VMware
     

    A little while ago I spent some time having a broad ranging talk with Jacob Gardner of Logicworks about what I do and why I do it. As I head off on a family vacation, I wanted to take…

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  • Australian Startups Sentinus Aims to “Clean Up the Cloud”

    November 19, 2012

    Business
    adoption, Appirio, australia, Best practice, Cloud computing security, cloudcomputing, Organization, Vendor (supply chain)
     

    Security is often identified as one of the barriers to wider cloud adoption. Even though it is often counter to reality, there is significant doubt in many organization’s minds about the relative security of cloud as opposed to their…

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  • Issues Around Cloud Adoption

    May 11, 2012

    Business
    adoption, Business, cloudcomputing, Professional certification
     

    CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-to’s, interviews with industry giants, and the occasional opinion piece are what…

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  • Enterprise 2.0–It’s Not Just an Upsized Consumer Offering

    January 5, 2011

    Aaron Roe Fulkerson, enterprise processes, enterprise tools, People and Processes, social business, Solutions, Strategies
    adoption, enterprise 2.0
     

    Ever since the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, commentators have struggled to not only define it, but to also find good examples of its success. One of the reasons for the disconnect between the theory and the practice is a focus by those who strive for an easily understood definition, on explaining Enterprise 2.0 as “Facebook for the Enterprise”.

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  • On Motivation, and What Really Drives Us

    December 17, 2010

    Dan Pink, MIT, Motivation, People and Processes
    adoption, enterprise 2.0, productivity
     

    We’ve been told for years that incentivizing employees is the secret to better performance.

    A great talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) questions the assumption that if you reward something you get more of the behavior you want and, the corollary, that if you punish something, you get less of the behavior.

    Dan Pink refers to a study at MIT which was funded by the Federal Reserve. In this study, a whole group of students were given a set of challenges – physical, cognitive, and spatial. Performance was incentivized via monetary reward in an approach typical of most workplaces. So what happened?

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  • Facebook Fridays? Let’s Bury That One Forever

    September 24, 2010

    Challenges, social enterprise, social media governance, social web, Solutions, Strategies
    adoption, enterprise 2.0
     

    A few years ago, back when we were young and naive and thought that social media was some passing fad that the young-uns would soon forget about, Serena Software created some waves by creating “Facebook Fridays”. Facebook Fridays was a quaint and old-world approach towards meeting employees’ desire to participate in social media activities by using […]

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  • The Organization of the Future – What Will it Look Like?

    September 8, 2010

    adoption 2.0, Challenges, employee 2.0, enterprise tools, organic business, work trends
    adoption, enterprise 2.0
     

    We hear plenty these days about the dawning age of Generation Y, that generation that has grown up knowing nothing but the availability of social networking, online gaming, ubiquitous computing and the incredible freedom of choice and information that …

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  • Cloud Reaches the Mainstream?

    August 4, 2010

    Business
    adoption, loudhouse, mimecast
     

    Recently released data shows the adoption of cloud computing breaking through the 50% barrier for the first time. The “Cloud Barometer Survey" research results were released last month and the study looked at how an organizations views its data…

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