AppExchange = Future Growth
Salesforce.com recently announced the acquisition of its 10,000th European customer as well as a 70% increase in new customers over the first quarter of 2008. Chief Strategy Officer Bruce Francis credited the speed of cloud-based implementation as a prime factor in its growth. Speaking from the European Cloudforce Conference, Francis further also cited global recession as a reason for Salesforce’s success, adding "The economic crisis has caused many CIOs to look at alternative computing models.”
Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model
The survey I ran last week is now closed and here is a summary of the ideas and comments collected. Some are fairly traditional and some are rather novel. Take a look, see what’s interesting and leave a comment on which ones you like or dislike.
NOTE: My comments for each of the ideas are not criticisms of those ideas, but simply additional commentary and context.
Employee Performance Management 2.0
The world of Employee Performance Management (EPM) has had a seismic shift in the last twelve months. Many organisations are now being caught napping as their industry or government sector embrace new employee performance methodology as well as...
Read more about Employee Performance Management 2.0...Interview with Margret Schmidt
Margret Schmidt is among our speakers at MX 2009, taking place 2-3 March in San Francisco. Her extensive experience heading up design at TiVo has given her a deep understanding of what it takes to deliver a great experience in a high technology...
Read more about Interview with Margret Schmidt...A bench with two seats
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to hear Joshua Gutwill, a researcher at the Exploratorium, speak about Instrumenting Chaos: Understanding the Visitor Experience in a Free-Choice Environment. In the Q&A part of the talk, someone asked if...
Read more about A bench with two seats...Lessons from the back of the napkin
Tuesday’s event with Dan Roam was a lot of fun. He joined us at Adaptive Path to speak about his book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures. Dan is a warm, funny speaker with a wealth of stories about using...
Read more about Lessons from the back of the napkin...Seven Deadly Customer-Survey Sins
Presented here, in abridged form is the list of things to avoid if you want to generate positive and useful results without ruining your relationship with your customer or worse yet, generating a wealth of data with no practical use or way of...
Read more about Seven Deadly Customer-Survey Sins...Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model
The survey I ran last week is now closed and here is a summary of the ideas and comments collected. Some are fairly traditional and some are rather novel. Take a look, see what’s interesting and leave a comment on which ones you like or...
Read more about Ideas for Twitter’s Revenue Model...
