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[Video] Why Is Cloud Computing Important to Enterprise Mobil...
This is an example of taking an audio interview and turning it into a video with text panels to help emphasize various points made by the speaker. In this podcast I interview the Vice President at Endeavour, who is an active writer and analyst. He makes some insightful points, especially toward the end where he [...]
Choosing a Smart Mobile Platform for the Enterprise Strategy
If you’re starting down the path of creating a mobility strategy for your business, read over this post first. The B2B environment has a lot more Blackberry phones than, say, iPhones. If you’re working on delivering a series of unique services to consumers via the Internet, you have to deal with iPhones, Blackberrys, Androids, Windows 7, and maybe even [...]
C.K. Prahalad, Management Visionary, 1941-2010
I am honored to have had one of the last interviews with C.K. Prahalad on my EnterpriseLeadership.org show. He is known for telling companies they could boost profits—and benefit the poor—by crafting products for them. The March 11th interview I had with Prahalad discussed a number of creative applications using his ideas around this theme. You can [...]
Making the iPhone More Enterprise-friendly – OS 4 SDK Insights
I was perusing some blog posts and found an article from Techendeavour ‘s Ramananda Shetty titled “Deep Dive into iPhone 4.0 Features“. I am extremely curious what is possible to build with this new SDK so I can provide more strategic insights to clients who are asking about business and marketing strategies that include or [...]
B2B Example of Video Podcasting Using Skype
I have hosted a weekly podcast show at BMC Software for five years now and there are more than 200 episodes. This type of video podcasting is a highly informative conversation around IT thought leadership topics. Length is roughly 10-15 minutes. I get questions about how I produce these, so here is a short summary [...]
What Is a Good Video Length for Lead Generation?
I get asked this question by clients, and I’ve been curious about it for some time. Why do we humans seem to want to watch a video for only 1-2-ish minutes when it comes to introducing an idea? What is it about that slice of time that feels like we’re getting something of value, yet [...]
The Mundane Can Be Made Engaging
I pulled this graphic from a blog article on Engadget’s website today. Graphically and in a pleasing manner, it quickly gives you, the reader, some insight around what articles on the website are “Most Commented”. You get a quick feel for what’s popular, and the way they’ve done it is just, well, pleasing, interesting, colorful but not distracting. Good [...]
Apple Releases OS4 for the iPhone/iTouch/iPad – Bring on the Competition
Avinash Birnale provides a useful overview with some analysis of the lastest ‘Tent Pole’ additions for the iPhone and soon the iPad running OS4, all recently announced by Apple. He covers the following changes or ‘tent poles’, as Apple calls them, because these features are really more a set of APIs that will be used [...]
Different Approaches to Open Innovation
(26:31) In this podcast, Dr. David Tennenhouse, a partner at New Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on corporate spinoffs, talks about different approaches to open innovation. New Venture Partners practices what Tennenhouse calls inside-outside open innovation. Partners and other staff members at New Venture Partners, a venture capital firm with about $700 million [...]