Newbie Introduction

Hello. I’m the new kid in this blogosphere. I’m going to share a bit on why I was asked to join this space, and then I am going to ask you to talk with to me. What topics do you want to know more about? I’ll be happy to do some legwork for you and share it here. Tell me how or even if an emerging technology applies to the real world in which you operate.  Our goal is to tear down the ivory tower and get to the reality of technology applied in business.

I’ve been around the block once or twice. My career started off in the late-80s in a sales capacity. I sold networking equipment as a channel partner for a variety of products.  The company was progressive in the sense that they were interested in promoting planning and design strategy, part of what we call professional services today, over the physical infrastructure boxes. It was a good gig and allowed me entrée into some bleeding edge environments like defense-centric federal government and pharmaceutical, still visionary verticals today.

From sales I migrated to the analyst research space.  I worked as an analyst 14-plus years.  I have covered physical boxes, management tools and technology, outsourcing, hosted and managed services, along with various other technologies. I’ve co-authored three books on virtual business processes and the underlying-enabling technologies. You can find them at the on-line bookstores. I’ve also authored dozens of articles, along with white papers and marketing content for clients.

My passions, those topics that really float my boat, include virtual business processes, evolving business strategies, business influences of Gen X and Gen Y, and cloud computing. Peppered throughout these primary topics is Web 2.0, collaboration, unified communications, project management, business process management and social networking.

That’s me in a nutshell.  But I want to know about you.  What topics are you interested in? What technologies is your firm considering implementing? Is formal project planning used in your company, or is it more laissez-faire? Do you know your company’s long term strategic plans for e-Business?  Is the plan structured with specific goals, or is it more a “floating with the times” strategy?

While I wait to hear from you, my next post will address some hooey I came across on the influences of Generation Y in today’s business.  Until then, happy sailing.

• General discussions
• Network Management
• Outsourcing
• SMB
• Software
• VoIP / Convergence
• Wireless / Mobile
• business processes
• Gen-X
• Gen-Y
• managed services
• unified communications
• virtualization