At one of my clients, they don’t have a cashier in the corporate restaurant. No, they just rely on the honesty of the employees and let everyone input the food they’ve chosen on a touch display. Actually that’s not completely true, I suspect...
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Unleashing the potential of Augmented Reality - a guest post
This is a guest post from a good friend of mine: Niels van der Zeyst (follow him on Twitter @zeyst), who is a thought leader on business technology and managing innovation in companies. He has set up the bottom-up innovation approach at Capgemini...
Read moreWe don't need social media
I finished yesterday reading the book “The logic of life” from Tim Harford (the author from the Undercover Economist) and while not explicitly touching the topic of social media, he does pose some very interesting points about the dynamics of...
Read moreTwitter: the end of the gossip magazine
One of the biggest lesson that social media is teaching companies is that they should be as open and transparent as possible to the market (their clients). It has no use to cover up screw-ups or denying like Iran tried to do. With YouTube, Twitter...
Read moreSeamless integration of voice and text with Google Wave
In order to be more efficient time and cost wise (as well as CSR), we’re more and more encouraged to use video and voice conferencing. During one of the last calls I had with a global team, my thoughts were wandering to Google Wave again and...
Read moreGoogle Wave will cause some big ripples in the corporate world
By L. Provoos
The discovery of fire, inventing the WWW, color TV, first girlfriend… There are several moments that can be considered as “game changing” to mankind and I’m about to believe that Google Wave will be one of them. (In case you were laying in...
Read moreHow the cloud saved my life
After five years of problem-free Mac usage, last week my hard disc crashed. And as you might have guessed, I’m not so much of a backup guy. Luckily I barely lost a thing, because being a cloud computing strategist it is kind of expected to walk the...
Read moreIT department: from solutions provider to solutions enabler
How many of you are using the microblogging tool Yammer in the company? I see more and more companies that are adopting it and the funny thing is: it gets more quickly adoption than their existing company enforced tools and it’s not controlled by...
Read moreHaving success with social media: correlation or causality?
It’s very popular to blame violent movies, internet sites and games for violent behavior of violent youngsters (hmm where did that come from “youngsters”? think I’m getting old.) When there is a shooting in a school, some politicians or other...
Read moreDon't focus too much on costs, cloud computing is about business agility
The whole blogosphere and Twitterverse seem to be buzzing about the McKinsey slide deck “Clearing the air on cloud computing” with little positive feedback. Will Forrest tries to address the following in the report: While it has great potential,...
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