Brian Magierski http://brian.magierski.com Entrepreneurial finance, venture capital, debt, mergers & acquisitions, and more - brian.magierski.com Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:04:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 BkmBloghttp://feedburner.google.com links for 2009-11-11 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BkmBlog/~3/awxVufsjAR8/ http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/11/links-for-2009-11-11/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:04:11 +0000 Brian Magierski http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/11/links-for-2009-11-11/ McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration But most companies are only beginning to take these paths. That’s because, in many respects, raising the collaboration game differs from traditional ways of boosting productivity. In production and transaction work, technology use is often part of a broader campaign to reduce head counts and costs—steps that [...]

  • McKinsey: What Matters: Using technology to improve workforce collaboration
    But most companies are only beginning to take these paths. That’s because, in many respects, raising the collaboration game differs from traditional ways of boosting productivity. In production and transaction work, technology use is often part of a broader campaign to reduce head counts and costs—steps that are familiar to most managers. In the collaboration setting, technology is used differently. It multiplies interactions and extends the reach of knowledge workers. That allows for the speedier product development found at P&G and improved partner and customer intimacy at Cisco. In general, this is new terrain for most managers.
    (tags: McKinsey enterprise2.0 innvoation cisco p&g adoption collaboration productivity)
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]]> http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/06/links-for-2009-11-06/feed/ 0 http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/06/links-for-2009-11-06/ Will Android blow iPhone OS away? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BkmBlog/~3/5j2rAUMAhNg/ http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/06/will-android-blow-iphone-os-away/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:23:04 +0000 Brian Magierski http://brian.magierski.com/2009/11/06/will-android-blow-iphone-os-away/ Here is an interesting post from Chris Dannen on FastCompany.com on Android vs. iPhone OS. While he misses the entire point on the 100k+ apps in the iPhone apps store, he does make a compelling point about the future of productivity with mobile + cloud computing going forward. However, the apps store can be overblown to a [...]

Here is an interesting post from Chris Dannen on FastCompany.com on Android vs. iPhone OS. While he misses the entire point on the 100k+ apps in the iPhone apps store, he does make a compelling point about the future of productivity with mobile + cloud computing going forward. However, the apps store can be overblown to a degree, in that I spend the vast majority of my iPhone time in a select groups of apps … the 80/20 rule applies for sure for me.

With respect to Android vs. iPhone OS, think about the power of being able to search for content based on who is in your contact list. If your contacts list intelligently manages all of the various identities and communities to which each contact belongs, then social search and mobile apps become much more intuitive and compelling. You can now navigate the web, get alerted, and run applications that intelligently know your social graph.  

Applying this in the arena of business applications, imagine in the Customer Engagement space, where now I can begin grouping people I know to be customers of my company in my address book, and my address book intelligently updates these customer contacts with each contact’s various identities and communities across the web. As a product manager, sales rep, or e-services support person, I can be much more intelligent about what is being said about my company, and quickly engage in relevant discussions to advance customer engagement and ultimately sales.

I can see the author’s point on how the iPhone is not yet set up to handle this well. Apple is certainly an innovator though, and may beat Google Android to the punch still.

All I know for me is that I’ll probably not be able to resist trying out Android, mostly because I have Google Voice and I won’t have to hand out a new number (which, by the way, is a very interesting strategic point to watch here too). And with the number of Android phones due to hit the market, this gadget geek may need to think about his gadget budget a little more. 

What do you think about this aspect of Android vs. iPhone OS?

(tags: iPhone “iPhone OS” Android Google Apple mobile platforms)

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Words to live (innovate) by.

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In entrepreneurship, it had better be for love. I could not resist posting this video clip of John Doerr speaking about missionary founders/CEOs vs. mercenary founders/CEOs, and why they only invest in the missionary types. Hat tip to Larry Cheng’s blog where I found this video … Larry also identifies one of the top missionary founder CEOs of our time, Jeff Bezos.

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