Recent headlines around privacy, super injunctions and scandals involving celebrities, sports stars and bankers make it seem like something new and dangerous has appeared out of the ether, when in fact it is nothing other than the usual, albeit...
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Sustainability: A Risk or an Opportunity?
The poster on my wall says “The future is not something we enter, it is something we create.” The emergence of sustainability as a strategic force in business is allowing organizations to do just that.The birth of the environmental movement is...
Read moreWhere does user experience start?
Meet Jodie Jodie is 42 years old and a proud of being “digitally dumb”. You hear her say: “oh no I don’t play computer games. That's for the kids” and “I don’t understand all this soft disk and rams I’ll let Patrick handle...
Read moreEliminating email, the new paperless office?
Eliminating email is becoming a popular, at least every conference I come nowadays has at least one speaker about eliminating email. However they often don't have really good reasons for quitting mail, they are trying to make a case based on the...
Read moreIf you treat social media as king, you are just a peon
To be honest I hear it too often in my field of work that companies should not only listen to their customers on social media, that they should not ignore them but even worse: that social media is king and that they should follow the rules of their...
Read moreWhat has the Dutch East India Company in common with the six million dollar man?
Imagine it is 1610 and you are a Business Intelligence consultant. You are asked by the Management Team (Heeren 17 or Gentlemen 17) of the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ( Dutch East India Company) to support their decision making...
Read moreWhat is your social credit score?
We all know sites such as klout and peerindex who are measuring your reputation in a certain way. This way you get a little insight in what the effects are of your participation in social media and how your efforts and results compare to those of...
Read moreMDM: Big Central Customer Hubs are an invitation to steal
IT Departments like databases, they like databases in the way that Marilyn Monroe liked diamonds and what IT Departments seem to firmly believe is that BIG is better in the world of databases. In MDM this database centric view tends to translate...
Read moreSocial as a design principle, not a silo
The concept of social as in described in the term social media is often treated as something isolated from other things within organizations. However if you want to get the full benefits from social you should not see it as a collection of tools or...
Read moreThe Power of Open Source
The adoption of open source in enterprises has grown significantly over the past decades. At Capgemini open source software has become the fifth largest technology platform with which our people deliver services to clients....
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