Collaboration 2.0

Oliver Marks
  • Sapphire notebook: structured taking unstructured seriously

    By Oliver Marks | May 18, 2012, 12:57pm PDT

    Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important. How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our increasingly connected world surfaces for them to respond to?

  • The human resources walled city

    By Oliver Marks | May 10, 2012, 12:16am PDT

    HR/HCM is historically the mature ’social’ center of businesses and can either lead digital transformation or be subsumed into a supporting collaborative role

  • Asana: speedy, stable and very well connected

    By Oliver Marks | May 3, 2012, 3:10pm PDT

    Well funded and connected ‘task management for teams’ firm Asana could make waves through their Facebook roots, quality code and cultural fit

  • The Intention Economy

    By Oliver Marks | April 29, 2012, 11:37pm PDT

    Finally a thoughtful, hype free book worth reading about digital marketing, the relationships we have with vendors and a vision for a better future where we have greater control of our personal data

  • Oracle's cloud launch: solid takeoff

    By Oliver Marks | April 18, 2012, 10:31pm PDT

    Oracle appear to be executing very efficiently to serve the cloud era and are accelerating hard, while some of their competitors continue to discuss disjointed constructs, ideas and future plans

  • Wisdom of the loud

    By Oliver Marks | April 9, 2012, 10:30pm PDT

    Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens: the trend of the loudest voices parading knowledge online and dominating conversations is slowly maturing as people realize that too much online publishing means those voices aren’t doing much else…

  • Job hunting in the socially networked era

    By Oliver Marks | April 4, 2012, 10:15pm PDT

    Being active on social networks and demonstrating your subject matter expertise will help make you visible in modern recruiting apps like Jobvite, which are rapidly gaining traction in forward thinking companies

  • Won't get fooled again?

    By Oliver Marks | April 1, 2012, 8:32pm PDT

    Is Wall Street’s current enthusiasm for profit from enterprise social technologies good for the end user, and will the old guard vendors outflank the challengers with feature offerings?

  • It ain't what you do...

    By Oliver Marks | March 27, 2012, 9:38pm PDT

    Achieving great collective performance has the same basic principles
    for musicians, sports teams and other groups of individuals.

  • Morning on cloud planet

    By Oliver Marks | March 21, 2012, 9:16pm PDT

    Cloud thinking is everywhere this spring with diminishing fear factor and business advantages being seriously considered. As this new era of enterprise technology gains momentum, fluffy conceptualizing needs to be replaced with more pragmatic thinking if challenger momentum is to gain weight and heft