Cezanne’s Apple
Cezanne wrote once “With an Apple, I will astonish Paris.” Cezanne at the time was a notoriously sophisticated and gifted walking set of contradictions. He loved everything he hated and hated...
View ArticleNumber 9 Dreamforce
For a Beatles’ fan and a fan particularly of John Lennon, the number 9 has an important meaning. It has enough meaning Lennon wrote a few songs referencing it, including Number 9 Dream. Perhaps I like...
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Not that long ago but in a place far away, I came to the conclusion that devices that purported to help people manage their days in fact made the problem worse. I was taking aim at everything from the...
View ArticleThe Social Revolution Has Just Begun
Depending on whom you ask, 2011 was either the year of the iPad or the year of social. The truth is that they were and are equally weighted because they are catalysts for each other, and while each...
View ArticleCarrot Beats Stick
WooHoo: You’ve just unlocked the URL of Blogville Badge! With Hostess becoming as bankrupt as the nutritional information in a Ding Dong and Kodak redefining the Kodak moment of another kind of...
View ArticleEurope Sets Course for Cloud
There’s a perception that cloud computing has become a “mature” technology, a perception shared by few but anticipated by most everyone else with the exception of those trying to preserve their...
View ArticleBored of Directors
What new shiny object do we not care about today? And what do crown jewels mean anyway? Thus was the start of a conversation with the New Zealand provocateur – in human form, which was a follow up to...
View ArticleCtrl – Alt – Social
In the tech world in which everything is recycled, retooled, and spit out like un-digestible gristle, one often comes across the phrases such as groupware is “dead” or “email is dead.” Oddly enough...
View ArticleTempestuous Relationships
In what seems to be from the lower paleothic period but in fact was about a year and a half ago, I wrote a post about the Mean Girls phenomenon and Shakespeare. This in turn was not actually about...
View ArticleRecording versus Experiencing
Experiencing versus record keeping – it can’t be a new concept. Are we currently equipped to do both at the same time? Some would argue that continuous recording of life events gets in the way of the...
View ArticleMobile Shows That The World is Not for Dummies
It’s far too easy to hate statistics and use them to make a point simultaneously. Let’s use them to show that the world is not comprised of dummies and idiots. Beginning with the trends published by...
View ArticleDreamforce1 – The Context of Salesforce1
You cannot deal with modern problems using antiquated systems. – Ramon Baez, Senior VP & CIO, HP @RamonfBaez, cited here by @valaafshar I have been to every Dreamforce, and I plan on going to...
View ArticleNotes from America: The Slack Manifesto
From https://uk.pinterest.com/pin/308215168225569108/ I love the Slack Workplace Manifesto, and I have to admire that at least the company thinks about the habitat for its advocates. Few companies do,...
View ArticleLet the New Machine Age Begin
We are ready for it! One of the first questions I have asked no one in particular is: what will change when artificial intelligence is part of the fabric of day to day life? It sounds like a simple...
View ArticleNotes from Reality, an Interview with Paul Greenberg
Paul Greenberg, known as the “Godfather” … and the “Bob Dylan” of CRM, is one of the most recognized and respected CRM analysts in the world. He is also author of the best-selling “CRM at the Speed of...
View ArticleNotes from Reality. An Interview with Ray Wang, Founder of Constellation...
This is part of a series of interviews with noted industry analysts, thought leaders, and technologists to better understand the impact that augmented reality and artificial intelligence will have on...
View ArticleNotes from Reality: An Interview with Denis Pombriant
This is part of a series of posts on the impacts that artificial intelligence and augmented reality will have on the people who are the most important aspect of CRM initiatives. Without the customer...
View ArticleNotes from Reality, An Interview on AI with Vinnie Mirchandani
No one covers large enterprise software ecosystems like Vinnie Mirchandani, founder of Deal Architect, a former technology industry analyst (with Gartner), outsourcing executive (with PwC, now part...
View ArticleNotes from Reality. An Interview with Dr. David Bray and Michael Krigsman on...
This is a series of interviews with notable luminaries about the state of AI, the impact AI will have on businesses, and about the ethical implications of intelligent computers. Discussing ethics is...
View ArticleNotes from Reality: The Philosophy of AI Ethics. An Interview with Dr. David...
Notes from Reality is a series of posts on AI and its impact on humans, what can be done today, and what may happen tomorrow. No one has all the answers, but we are trying to arrive at the right...
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