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Competing on Analytics – getting started

December 7, 2011

Introduction Following on from my recent posts about a) the IBM CMO study, and b) the McKinsey Quarterly articles on big data, I was reminded of a podcast (reproduced below) I’d listened to several months ago, which featured Tom Davenport – pictured right. That listening sparked me to look into more of Tom’s recent work.The [...]

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Old School vs New School #1 – Ways To Build A Network

November 24, 2011

Introduction & context I know Fiona Birkbeck, Creative Director of Multiminded through networking events on Tyneside, and so was intrigued when she invited me to write an article which looks at tools for business networking. The following quote is from Fiona’s e-mail to me on the subject: I think when I last saw you I [...]

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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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Impact of big data and social media #1 – IBM CMO study

November 17, 2011

Introduction I had seen an advert for this study highlighted in the media, and investigated. You could argue that the IBM reports play to the strengths of IBM as a company – and you’d be right. That said, it is a fascinating insight into the mindsets and priorities of Chief Marketing Officers, and so I’m [...]

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Pinevio at DEMO, Fall 2011

September 21, 2011

Intro For regular readers of the blog, you will recall a previous post, Introducing Pinevio. I was therefore massively stoked to be contacted yesterday by Daumantas, to say that he and Mindaugas had presented the Pinevio concept at DEMO in Silicon Valley: The DEMO Experience Conference Format The feel you get when you enter the [...]

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Podcasting practicalities

September 12, 2011

Intro This post follows on from last Autumn’s Podcasts = genius and the immediately previous Podcasting discoveries. It does what it says on the tin in the title! The first section sets out how I’ve been listening to digital content; the second describes how I have been involving in creating some podcasts myself. Listening tools [...]

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Introducing Pinevio

May 19, 2011

Introduction This post is about a new internet start-up business, and my role in coaching and mentoring the team since July 2010. Originally called themselves TerraPi, the three original entrepreneurs have been joined by a fourth. This is their story. [cue drum roll and dramatic title sequence…!] Background Daumantas, Justinas, & Mindaugas are three Lithuanian [...]

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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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