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Patent Nonsense

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Patents are invaluable in helping marketing and sales, especially in the launch and early growth phases. Are they really? Venture capitalists, and other business advisers insist technological advantages need to be protected, so they can be exploited commercially. But practical experience suggests otherwise.

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Cloud Software for Small Businesses Won’t Save Microsoft

Internet Enabled Business

Image via Wikipedia Typical Consulting Speak I guess these consultants have to play the game making stuff complicated. But all this analysis of strategy is a waste of time. The battle in software is no longer strategic, it’s tactical. These big companies are facing competition from thousands of micro businesses, all being tactical, and on [...]

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The End of Desk Top Computing is Near Now

Internet Enabled Business

The world is flat and computers are Microsoft Do you know there are still people who think the world is flat? Yes and there are also those who think the world will always be defined by Microsoft. Quite how both types are able to deny the obvious bemuses me. In thirty years of struggling with [...]

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Small Business Takes to Clouds

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I’ve had a great day today with several pieces of excellent news.  This is in someways the best, because we’re a global business but our main markets are the USA and UK. So far interest coming from the UK has been disappointing, compared even with places like Australia, China, Hong Kong and even the Nordic [...]

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Getting Paid for Using Software

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Isn’t it fun when you’ve predicted something and been laughed at, and then it turns out to be true Several years ago we described our concept in It Started in the Burlington Coat Factory – ultimately people would be rewarded for using software. More recently we discussed in Making Money in the Information Age the [...]

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Capable Not Complex Business Software

Front Office Box

For business software the world has become used to complexity – it’s all that Microsoft stuff designed to keep IT guys in work.  But for social software the world expects capability, without complexity. The difference is adoption. Social sites need to capture the interest of users short on time but overloaded with choices. Capability is [...]

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Making Money In The Information Age

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Where’s The Business Model in the Information Revolution? This unfortunately, and inevitably, is a complex description of what we’ve learned in our quest to answer the question “what happens when the cost of software drops to zero?” We don’t make any pretensions as to academic leadership, but the article does have some authority – written [...]

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Making Complex Things Simple and Just Do It

Front Office Box

A few days ago Keith Olberman in his regular “worst persons” spot called out Steve Ballmer, Chairman of Microsoft. Ballmer had presented to a conference on how technology changes. He suggested within 10 years the computer would be as thin and flexible as a sheet of paper. Olberman quickly confessed his point was “tongue in [...]

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CRM Systems Fail to Deliver – More Evidence

CRM

Yet more evidence there’s something intrinsically wrong with the concept and the implementation of CRM systems. Jim Bekowitz blogs on CRM and related topics at CRM Mastery Inc aka @jberkowitz, Jim posted on Twitter a link to this article “Never Again” More Than 40% of CRM /Sales Force Automation (SFA) Users Would Not Buy Their [...]

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