Everyday more and more information about you is uploaded into numerous databases. While you sleep, eat, work, buy things, sell things, go to the bank, commute – essentially during everything you do there is data about you being created, uploaded, processed, analyzed, and used. This is such an important subject that it was a...
Read more →Moving social technologies from being totally outward focused towards customers and constituents to inward focused has the potential to provide amazing levels of value for governmental, non-profit, and regulated organizations. Altimeter’s latest report is on Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) from our own Charlene Li looks at how ESN’s can drive value inside the organization....
Read more →There are a number of reasons why companies fail and close like fraud, lawsuits, shifting markets, changes in government regulations, and many others. One of the key reasons, though it isn’t always identified as such, is the inability to spot, think through, and prepare for technology disruptions. Last week as I browsed through the...
Read more →Below is my research agenda for the rest of 2011. I haven’t focused on publishing research and instead have been focused on putting in the foundational aspects for Altimeter to be an amazing company. That doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing interviews and research, just have not been publishing much of it. Research is...
Read more →The coffee shop near my house has always done a very good job balancing the needs of customers between those who want to come in and enjoy a conversation with a friend to those who want to come in an work on their laptops. During the week they limit the number of tables that...
Read more →I always enjoy watching what get’s published by analysts, consultants, and industry watchers in December and January. It seems like everyone is prognosticating about what they expect to happen in the year ahead. A few are even brave enough to examine and evaluate their predictions from the previous year before laying out their forecasts...
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