Stopping with something when you have just reached 1% of your goal. Sounds rather silly, doesn't it? However I know quite some people, either community managers or others working in the social media area, who do just this. As soon as they have 1% of...
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MDM: Know your customer, understand your business, reduce your costs
Customer Centric MDM is a big challenge for most organisations, its also one with possibly the biggest opportunity for revenue generation in a company. But does this upside mean increasing costs, and in particular increasing operating costs? The...
Read morePeople on Twitter don’t care what you had for breakfast… or do they?
There are a lot of blog posts telling Twitter users that they should not tweet personal mundane stuff such as what we had for breakfast, whether we have a cold etc.They all seem to be unified in a common attempt to streamline Twitter into this...
Read moreMDM: Time for the CIO to become the Chief Information Officer?
When looking for a sponsor for an MDM initiative the generally accepted consensus is that you have to get a business sponsor and you need to get the business actively engaged. Now I'm not going to argue against that but I am going to pose a...
Read moreThe upcoming big crisis for the Web
The Web and especially the social part of the Web is facing their biggest challenge in the upcoming five years. It is not the fact that we are running out of ip addresses, that is not such a big issue compared to this one. It is about an essential...
Read moreEmail and meetings leave no time for social software
When suggesting the application of social software like wikis, blogs, social networks or mircoblogging within the workplace you may have been confronted with the following argument: “Our employees are already very busy coping with their email and...
Read moreBig Data is an opportunity
A while ago 13 years old son asked me if I was familiar with the term 'Infobesity'? To be honest I had heard of it before but was unsure about the correct definition so I had to look it up. It quickly found out that the word is a combination of...
Read moreMDM: The boundary between Master Data Management and Maintenance
So when does MDM actually become about management of master data? Speaking today to an old friend in the banking sector he highlighted a couple of key things about their challenges on MDM. One of them is that a lot of organisations make the mistake...
Read moreTypography: 4 questions, 4 answers
This is probably the shortest blog post you will ever going to read from me, but short doesn't automatically say that it's not worth your time. Here's what I believe: most readers are looking for reasons to stop reading. If readers have...
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