Business Two Zero

Here’s a piece where my interest in politics, my love of films and writing about the business of presentation intersects.  I’ve been away on holiday in France for a couple of weeks and one of the things in the huge pile of mail was my Empire magazine.  Flicking through it I found their review of […]

In business I’ve never been afraid of having plenty of active competitors.  Competition is good - if there are a lot of other people active in your market it’s an indicator of a good healthy category, and your product, service and approach is going to be better than theirs, so why worry?  The Software as a […]

Over the last few days the Enterprise Irregulars have been discussing the definition of Enterprise 2.0.  I plan a write up and links to some of their thoughts, but one of the factors discussed is the way the current Web 2.0 and Office 2.0 tools facilitate discussion and the development of ideas, and may begin […]

    Ismael Ghalimi, one the Enterprise Irregulars, is organising the first Office 2.0 conference  in San Fancisco in October.  I’ve mentioned Ismael’s IT|Redux blog before - he explains his rationale for the Office 2.0 concept here, and then collects together appropriate tools here.  The conference: “brings together Office 2.0 companies, early adopters, investors, […]

I posted earlier about the Enterprise Irregulars collective response, published by Sandhill in response to their opinion piece suggesting Open Source software would be the death of traditional Enterprise software.  Dan Farber (an Irregular) summarised our article on ZDnet.  Matt Asay argued against some of what we said, suggesting the outcome of the war between Open […]

 
I’m very keen on the use of clear English and good grammar, particularly when it comes to contracts.  That’s one of the reasons I hate some of the needlessly archaic and obscure language some lawyers use, with unnecessary doubling to make doubly sure, such as “bequeath and devise”, “let or hindrance” or “null and void”.  […]

Over at Sandhill,  Guy Smith of Silicon Strategies Marketing wrote an interesting opinion piece, which you should go and read, on the impact of Open Source on Enterprise Software:

“The old ways of the software business are dying but there is still time for even old-fashioned vendors to reposition themselves and compete in the open-source era.”

Guy’s […]

I posted earlier about an argument I’d had at AcountingWEB with one of my competitors over the terms ASP and SaaS as well as On-Demand, and Manoj added some dialogue over at his place.  I wondered whether a venn diagram might help clarify things, and he suggested a table.  Although I’m very keen to have […]

I missed this announcement a week or so ago, but my thanks to Central Desktop’s blog for some nice commentary on the phenomenon.  They say: “This is one of the most ridiculous things we’ve heard in a long time!   Its not about whether or not users can […]

 
A colleague, Peter Klyhn,  and I have just been dealing with someone who seems to think they understand accounts, numbers and business better than anyone else in the world, when actually they know very, very little - you probably know someone like that!  Peter just sent me this extract from David Niven’s autobiography, which highlights […]