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Impact of big data and social media #2 – McKinsey Quarterly

November 18, 2011

Introduction Second in a series of two posts about big data and social media. First post is here. This particular post draws upon three articles published in the McKinsey Quarterly. Getting to grips with ‘big data’ Here, I’m concentrating on ‘big data’ which, I think, is rather eloquently captured in this vignette by Brad Brown, [...]

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McKinsey report shows that using Web 2.0 creates competitive advantage – part iv

January 21, 2011
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series McKinsey Web 2.0 series

Introduction The final part in this series contains: A podcast Links connected with this article / report A copy of the report, courtesy of the magicians at Scribd.com It’s basically a wash-up of the previous 3 posts. Thanks for reading this far – and hope you’ve found it all useful! :-) Podcast Listen (by mousing-over [...]

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McKinsey report shows that using Web 2.0 creates competitive advantage – part iii

January 20, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series McKinsey Web 2.0 series

Introduction Part 3 of a series of 4 posts about the growing amount of evidence to support Web 2.0’s successful impact on company performance. A box top-right should link you to other posts in this series, and a section at the bottom describes what the different posts are about. Graphics / Numbers Hopefully McKinsey will [...]

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McKinsey report shows that using Web 2.0 creates competitive advantage – part ii

January 19, 2011
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series McKinsey Web 2.0 series

Introduction Second post in a series of 3 – hopefully the title gives it away! If the series gizmo is working properly, you should have a box at the top right of this post which links to all the posts live in this series… This post contains McKinsey’s key assertions regarding the difference Web 2.0 [...]

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McKinsey report shows that using Web 2.0 creates competitive advantage – part i

January 17, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series McKinsey Web 2.0 series

Introduction I’ve recently been debilitated by a heavy cold, and took the opportunity to catch up on some reading. If you’ve read some of my other posts, you will have picked up that I believe Web 2.0 can have a big impact on organisations, and will redefine how most of us communicate. I regularly read [...]

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Microsoft’s Online Services presentation to @NEBytes

August 25, 2010

Introduction As per my recent post about Onyx & Cloud computing, I’m interested in business opportunities in the Cloud space, rather than the more technical stuff. I guess I’m interested from the business-technical angle. I’ve recently been investigating what Microsoft is up to, and below is my presentation to the NE Bytes massive on the [...]

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Preso: The importance of cloud computing and related market opportunity

July 5, 2010

Introduction Last week I attended an internal workshop with Onyx Group, to help them discuss the next steps for their cloud offering. My slot was wedged between a fascinating talk about online backup from Alexander and Saaher from Securstore, and Steve Caughey of Arjuna Technologies Ltd (fyi this useful video re Arjuna’s Agility product). My [...]

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Social Media strategy – Vignette-stylee

November 11, 2009

Intro I used to work at a systems integrator, as part of their Knowledge Management practice, and then latterly as a business consultant in their Information Management practice. Vignette was a name that always came up in discussions about web content management, and so it’s interesting to see that it was bought by OpenText this [...]

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Social Media for Accountants – the real thing

October 16, 2009

Intro To recap: Proposed by RMT, to present at DFK UK & Ireland Annual Conference. This year, it was held in Troon, right next to the golf course. Schoolboy error on my part meant that I forgot to pack my clubs and go up early enough to get a round in – doh! The presentation [...]

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Microsoft’s push into Web 2.0 via SharePoint

July 30, 2009

Ok, so I should admit that I have previous with Microsoft and SharePoint. An NT MCSE of 1999, I have been involved in a number of bids and delivery projects (e.g. here and here) involving SharePoint. The latest version, ‘Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007’ has a number of Social Media tools, but my experience has [...]

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