by Ron Miller

Sure, listen to your customers -- but don't expect them to have all the answers

Conventional wisdom says you should be listening to your customers online and letting them help drive your products, but customer-driven innovation has its limits. 

Read my full post on CITEworld.

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SAP bets on the cloud

Adobe and Microsoft have thrown around the term cloud recently when in fact they're not really offering cloud services. Now SAP is making noises about going all in on the cloud. Should you believe them?

Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

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What your IT department could learn from Sony's disruption

Sony is a classic example of a disrupted company, which failed to react to changes in the market and saw its brand diminish from one of the top names in consumer electronics to an also-ran. And believe it or not, your IT department could learn from Sony's mistakes because disruption follows a similar pattern whether it's an individual, a department or a corporation. 

Read my full post and see all the lessons on CITEworld.

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Obama Administration has Jekyll and Hyde swings on privacy rights

In the last month alone, the Obama administration has had head-jerking swings on privacy rights -- defending them at one point and destroying them at another. Hard to know what to think.

Read my full commentary on Internet Evolution.

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LinkedIn is focused on mobile - your company should do the same

A LinkedIn spokesperson told me how the company is embracing a mobile first strategy --and you might want to be thinking about that approach too. 

Read my full story on CITEworld.

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Reducing Complexity: The Next Software Development Imperative

As we move from monolithic enterprise software packages to smaller more discrete apps, your job as a software developer is shifting and reducing complexity has suddenly become Job One.

Read my full post on the Ness Software Engineering Services Blog.

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Microsoft still doesn't get tablets. Here's evidence.

When Bill Gates went on TV last week purporting to know what iPad users want -- a keyboard and a copy of Office -- he exposed himself as an out of touch executive, but worse he revealed Microsoft's true tablet strategy, which is the same as it ever was.

Read my full post on my TechTarget View from Above blog.

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5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 5-10-13

This week we look at open source networking switches, determining if a new software language is a turkey and a CIO's thinking during a major outage.

See all my links and commentary on the Ness Software Engineering Services blog.

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Cloud? You're managing a healthcare merger in the cloud?

Would you ever have thought it possible that two healthcare firms managing a legal process, a merger, would use a cloud service to manage their files? This one did and here's the scoop on how they did it.

Read my full story on CITEworld.

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GoodData and Box share same vision: Cloud services working together

I talked to GoodData CEO Roman Stanek and GM for Box Enterprise Whitney Bouk and got their takes on the notion of a network of cloud services. Perhaps the  GoodData-Box partnership was a first step in that direction. Real reporting on the fly for this one. Stanek was in a cab on the way to the airport and Bouck was at an event in NYC and we managed to pull it together. 

Read my full article on CITEworld.

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