http://www.sapmdmtutorials.blogspot.com
http://www.sap4india.com
http://www.sapag.co.in
http://www.sapxitutorials.blogspot.com
http://www.sapnwtraining.com

I also loved the unrehearsed video presentation. I would love to see you do more of these in the future.

Thanks for making this available.

“We see a technology story and business network transformation story. We see a really interesting combination of good business ideas and the technology that helps leverage those business ideas. When you combine that, you see the patterns that we see in the data.”

I learned that:

- how one uses these new technologies to leverage better business ideas is the true differentiator.

- low tech industries have an BIG opportunity. Gain competitive advantage by connecting your work force with E2.0 tech because they consistently contribute value beyond turning wrenches.

I also learned

- you are left handed
- no amount of IT will replace paper and markers.

Two decades of experience as a competitive sales strategist in the highly competitive technology space taught me something: for most companies, technology itself isn’t competitive advantage. Technology is, or rather should be, just a medium to deliver business improvement.

If a company has a winning overall business strategy, automating existing processes critical to the execution of that strategy will result in competitive advantage.

For example, a company that implements SAP’s (or anyone’s) software “out of the box,” where the company’s business processes are altered to meet requirements of the software, rather than the reverse, are destined to be an industry laggard, rather than a leader.

One of the reasons that CRM software has not delivered on customer expectations is many companies invested in CRM as an elixir to cure numberous varieties of sales problems. What they wound up doing was automating the very chaos that existed in their organizations at that time. The companies that enjoyed the biggest benefit from CRM were those who adapted the software to support wide compliance with their existing methods and processes.

Thanks a million – really interesting stuff.

You said that you were planning on continuing the research to cover other countries than just the US too, to further test your hypotheses. Which countries did you have in mind? Crossing the Atlantic to invade Europe?

Just to cross over a bit into your other area of interest, E 2.0, I’ve been working on a sort of a wiki-portal to gather enough relevant information, (studies, videos, slideshows, ideas, existing cases of implementation etc.) for executives or anyone interested in the subject to be able to make the “right” conclusions whether E 2.0 might be the right path for their organization. As most of the information on E 2.0 was scattered all over the internet in peoples blogs and articles, it was extremely hard to get a comprehensive idea what the phenomenon was about. This is the problem I decided to tackle: Bring it all under the same roof.

Anyhow, the project is divided into 3 sections: How companies can use these tools to enhance their actions (E 2.0), how the tools could be used to promote collaboration between research groups (universities) and corporations (business), and how (academic) libraries could better serve their clients by utilizing the tools (Library 2.0).

Sorry for using your blog as a marketing channel. Trying to get people to navigate to my wiki is one thing, but I also wanted to thank you, as a lot of the ideas I present in the project are yours So if you have time, take a look and please do comment / edit / add …
Here’s the link to the project: http://wiki.glostra.fi/index.php/Web_2.0_/_Enterprise_2.0_-_Enhancing_collaboration_with_social_software

-Jasu