tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48760634553116784922011-11-28T02:07:11.682+01:00A blog about how Consumer technology, behaviour and insights can be used as a strategic weapon in the Enterprise.Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-7193631620571241582009-03-22T18:38:00.009+01:002009-03-22T19:17:22.924+01:00

Not satisfied with world domination of Search and Email, Google have now launched 'Google Voice', another enterprise relevant service which will be forcing Corporate Telephony service providers to rethink their voice revenue forecasts for 2009.The essence of Google Voice is that you are issued a single number which is assigned to your plethora of (up to 6) phones (home, office, work mobile,

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-69214254185941946172009-03-17T22:15:00.009+01:002009-03-22T18:36:13.351+01:00

I’ve tried very hard to resist, but I’ve given in – I have to blog something about Apples 3.0 software update for the iPhone. Apart from the ‘obvious’ stuff (landscape keyboard, cut & paste etc) the one killer new features which stands out for me (based on the longevity and potential) is the hardware API.This will enable the iPhones to pretty much control anything … from your homes central

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-55528652168045876312009-03-06T20:40:00.005+01:002009-03-06T20:48:37.028+01:00

The world largest smartphone manufacture HTC really understand the integrated 'one life' concept, this phone demo has (at least) two modes a 'lifestyle' mode, and a 'business' mode. The social network (facebook) integration also responds to consumer demand for more integrated offerings.

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-32673973259482972652009-03-06T16:20:00.004+01:002009-03-10T08:16:19.854+01:00

Whoever sells those black Woody Allen style psychiatrists couches should watch out. Access to expertise, anywhere, anytime just got a whole lot simpler - so now you don't need to go to Scotland to learn how to make Whisky or have to visit your local family psychiatrist to discover the truth about why you're being chased by a three headed spider with body of your mother-in-law.Skype have launched

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-6349002793398905052009-03-03T13:47:00.005+01:002009-03-03T17:10:19.919+01:00

Last week I was submitted to a barriage of Twitter related media (Twitterage?). BBC Radio 1's morning anchor Chris Moyles joked about it and TV host, comedian and author Stephen Fry admitted his addiction to it (he's following over 54,345 people, has 254,098 Followers).Yammer a 'corporate' Twitter, creates closed networks (walled gardens) where only users with the same domain address (e.g .@

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Google Docs have now added editing capabilities to Google Spreadsheets from popular phones, including the iPhone and Android phone.Combine this with the fact that...1. SAP recently launched a integrated CRM manager for your Blackberry - allowing users to keep track of sales calls and leads.2. Salesforce.com recently launched a slick iPhone plugin which tracks events, leads, contacts and tasks. (

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-30648510429671038782009-02-07T23:56:00.016+01:002009-02-08T00:42:28.010+01:00

'Support' accounts for more than half of Enterprise client computing costs today - and staff are the most expensive component of support - so any labour-saving tools or technologies which can help automate and accelerate problem solving will please users and save precious recession-friendly bucks.Microsoft has recognized this opportunity and is launching 'Fix It'. Clicking on a simple button 

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-42586253462040100292009-01-31T23:32:00.004+01:002009-01-31T23:39:09.808+01:00

In 1981, San Francisco TV station KRON aired a news segment about how a select group of computer users were getting their daily copy of the San Francisco Examiner not on paper, but on their home computer (!). It's a stark reminder how fast the consumer PC market has  has evolved - what's next in your predictions?   

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-87186994877724398572009-01-29T19:38:00.006+01:002009-02-05T14:45:23.775+01:00

A couple of killer Enterprise relevant features have been launched in gmail recently ..... 1. Beta Offline acccess i.e. Gmail access without a network connection, early reports are that it actually works better than the online version!! If this claim is true it will be yet another nail in the coffin for client based mail (outlook etc). Why would anyone not want to use web based mail?2. Domain

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-3828281505915865442009-01-24T16:20:00.006+01:002009-01-24T17:08:41.815+01:00

Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, six-year-old Windows PCs (his team were a Mac house) and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts. In Twitter feeds, Obama's White

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-82271389414357247082009-01-19T14:32:00.003+01:002009-01-19T14:42:59.445+01:00

The esssence and relevance of consumerisation in todays' economist..... (print edition) ....There is strong demand for technologies that do the same for less money, rather than more for the same price. FOR years, the computer industry has made steady progress by following Moore’s law, derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, now the world’s biggest

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-63169687718205982732009-01-18T21:36:00.005+01:002009-01-18T23:11:51.294+01:00

Taking a taxi the other day and chatting to the driver, John... he was reminiscing ..."When I started in this job over 30 years ago, I was employed full time,  the car was provided for me and all I had to do was pick up the jobs"He went on..."Today, I own this car, it's my personal insurance... and I pay my own taxes, the only thing the company provides is a list of jobs, in the form of an email.

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Theo Kitsos is the VP HR Global Organisational Effectiveness. Hear Theos views about consumerisation and the role that he believes that IT will need to play in the coming years...

Wendy "Save the cheerleader" Wilkesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-49636810861446400442008-10-19T20:16:00.004+02:002008-10-20T17:10:25.997+02:00

We've started to distill out the key questions we need to ask to identify who can benefit most from Freedom of Choice. Aside from all the technical prerequisites regarding applications, we've identified 3 key dimensions. They are.....1. IT Skill - how capable is a user to support themselves. Will they be their own worse enemy? or do they have sufficient skills that they can make and perform basic

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-7141149255283374882008-09-26T00:35:00.005+02:002008-09-26T01:00:40.970+02:00

On 17 September 2008, hackers posted messages on the Web from the Yahoo e-mail account of Governor Sarah Palin. They did it by guessing the answer to the password reset question she'd set - An answer she had conveniently shared with reporters in an interview she'd done earlier in the year.The incident highlights the need for a proactive approach to managing consumer services, education/awareness

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-86542344635692338472008-09-21T01:46:00.008+02:002008-09-26T22:14:37.785+02:00

There are plenty of online storage companies pedaling offering disk space online, but this is the first claiming 1TeraBytes (1000 Gigabytes) for a lifetime of spam? free.So why is it important? Because Oosah is challenging the conventional economics of storage. It does have its limitations: file sizes are limited to 200MB per video and 9MB per audio file and like everything on the net you don't

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-5512779399751537612008-09-02T23:09:00.007+02:002008-09-03T00:06:54.587+02:00

We said in our first consumerisation webcast back at the end of 2007 that the war was in in the browser space. Today that belief was reaffirmed as Google beta launched their first Internet / Application Browser - Google Chrome.Chrome redesigns the browser from the ground up, and is aimed at creating a user experience which is more conducive to supporting the growing raft of Web Applications.If

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-30744844195843620292008-08-25T14:24:00.002+02:002008-08-25T14:38:42.974+02:00

Last week the CTO launched the first of a series of internal webinars aimed at breaking the norm of powerpoint monologues. The team brought in 3 experts from around the business - people who are working on the front line of Consumerisation , Dave Burton (IT Lead for the 'One UK business' initiative), Mike Elliot (CTO, Lead IT Architect Client) and Warren Burns (Global Technology Risk Manager)

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-41353490746654780782008-08-18T17:06:00.005+02:002008-08-18T17:11:32.170+02:00

Unilever is featured in the latest edition of BusinessWeek. The article features our very own Wendy Wilkes, and Chris Turner. You can find the article here.

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-71377934744656468522008-08-07T16:20:00.004+02:002008-08-07T16:32:14.988+02:00

Tired of your corporate laptop? What do you like / dislike about the existing managed service within your business? Are you sick of having two devices to keep track of your life - one for home, one for work? Would you sacrifice certain support benefits if it meant you could have more choice? CAN WE TRUST OUR USERS??These are questions that as a consumerisation team we are very interested in....

Wendy "Save the cheerleader" Wilkesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-73893618981761828812008-08-01T01:54:00.003+02:002008-08-26T16:08:29.441+02:00

UK Telephone operator Orange has announced plans to bundle free laptops with data packages aimed at businesses and consumers. The move, scheduled for August, is the latest in a spate of 'free' laptop promotions from retailers and ISPs looking to tie customers into long-term subscriptions.This latest offer requires customers to sign up for a 24-month mobile broadband contract in return for their

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-43348166978685000262008-07-07T13:35:00.009+02:002008-07-07T14:24:28.620+02:00

In Korea email use has been on the decline since 2004, in the US email amoung teens and young adults is down 8%. The reason? Children are comparing email to instant messenger and calling it 'snail email'.Over the past two years, email has been increasingly bypassed in favor of simpler forms of communication. According to Alex Iskold "The increasing speed of our lives and global connectivity

Aaron Rajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478734596728637706noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-37165554723085907672008-06-30T21:09:00.010+02:002008-06-30T23:22:37.435+02:00

One of the big challenges of connecting non-managed or personal PCs to the corporate network is security - amongst other things the risk of either bringing something nasty into the network or perhaps worse leaving sensitive corporate intellectual property in the public domain.  It's been one of the primary reasons why remote access has been limited to company managed devices.One of the more novel

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-81616900807654658012008-06-02T23:51:00.006+02:002008-06-03T00:21:05.645+02:00

The war for support is heating up, and surprise, surprise many of the companies who are providing personal IT support are now offering it to businesses. These services are definitely not 'cheap' but they do in many instances provide PAYG (pay as you go services) so if there's nothing to fix there's no fee.Strangely enough - one of our major retail customers is leading the pack in the UK. Tesco's

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-46482407541923097182008-05-30T20:02:00.009+02:002008-06-01T03:46:17.503+02:00

Couple of good articles popped up this week which are worth a read...The first "Generation V to change corporate culture" relates to the recent Gartner Symposium - reenforcing 'Generation V' and the risk of loss of the baby boomers. Couple of good sound bites but one particular one which struck a chord was ..."implement applications that enable configurability and flexibility without affecting

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-74423170146919901662008-05-21T23:53:00.006+02:002008-05-30T20:33:48.650+02:00

In conversations this week, I discovered that by 2014, more than 50% of a certain oil companies most prized oil and gas discovery workers will have retired. For an industry whose share price is measured on the number of oil and gas fields discovered each year this is a disturbing trend.One of the possible solution - social networks. 'Alumni' knowledge networkers are emerging in high knowledge

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-13493311878203932392008-05-19T20:01:00.016+02:002008-05-23T15:21:13.317+02:00

Turning unutilized assets into a profit stream is pretty smart - and that's exactly what Amazon is doing with their book selling infrastructure to create Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). S3 is an online storage web service offering unlimited storage through a simple web services interface. Amazon charges fees for data stored and for bandwidth used in sending and receiving data.So why might S3

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-40795274364800735682008-05-17T02:13:00.012+02:002008-05-17T03:31:58.549+02:00

On a recent vist to one of our national businesses, I was pleasantly surprised to see 'Xobni' (pronounced Zob-Nee) http://www.xobni.com/ featuring on many non-IT desktops.Xobni is a small plugin which runs alongside Outlook providing a people-centric view of your mail, and attachments. Xobni has some neat features, such as analysis of 'most frequently emailed', a league table of 'average email

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-78706183830101376892008-05-13T13:56:00.007+02:002008-05-20T00:20:34.821+02:00

How do we get the rest of the IT community engaged and enthused about consumerisation? Anthony "Hiro"Cockburn (my trusted side kick) and I have been discussing the challenges we have been facing to get across the need for more "action not debate" concerning consumerisation. We have been involved in anumber of internal IT battles over the last few weeks since we joined the team - mainly due to

Wendy "Save the cheerleader" Wilkesnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-5190562888323133582008-05-13T00:10:00.008+02:002008-05-13T14:56:14.259+02:00

Does one size fit all?Are we all similar people with similar technology needs?Would you give superman the same technology as batman, or wonderwoman for that matter? Go with me on this one....surely superman would need some sort of high tech mobile device with news streaming capability from across the world to keep good visibility of the turmoil Lex Luthor is trying to cause, whilst batman might

Wendy "Save the cheerleader" Wilkesnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-27754406746216623712008-05-10T00:32:00.009+02:002008-05-13T14:52:55.374+02:00

Adobe wants your eyeballs. They're chasing the lucrative consumer dominated business model pioneered by Google.The beta service creates the capability for authors to monetize newsletters, whitepapers, reprints - anything exported to PDF. The idea is that you upload your PDF file, Adobe analyzes the content and connects it to ads (as per Googles AdSense). When the viewing public opens the

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-28882205960130666032008-05-09T21:20:00.006+02:002008-05-13T14:57:41.865+02:00

Thought you might be interested to know that you're not alone. I've now embedded a small amount of code into this page which means you're being watched....Analystics is really designed to makes it easy to improve your results online. Write better ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives, and create higher-converting websites. Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-65738686090741645082008-05-09T20:30:00.008+02:002008-05-13T14:54:31.455+02:00

As business globalises and externalises and as media formats grow in richness, depth and fidelity .... files are getting larger and needing to travel further. Enter the 'Large File Transfer Service'.These services offer tremedious value (many if not most are free), and they solve an age old problem of how to send artwork in development through to an agency and get a decent turnaronnd

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-86067217901776147732008-05-09T20:15:00.004+02:002008-05-13T14:55:49.582+02:00

An interesting apporach which Forrester is launching to segment user populations. Would be interesting to understand how these profiles vary industry by industry and function by function. Short slide show paints enough of a picture to be able to grasp the key concept. Tip - if like me you're struggling to read the words (and don't have your glasses / microscope) click on the little icon in the

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-79018225487666205302008-05-09T12:19:00.006+02:002008-05-13T14:56:53.410+02:00

Techie interlude ...Becomes apparent that you can't have a closed group blog and have RSS or Atom news feeds enabled. :(The reason - RSS doesn't support authentication ..... yet. The full story below ....http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/03/private-blogs-do-not-have-newsfeeds.html

Aaron Rajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17478734596728637706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-31974028697635457682008-05-08T16:24:00.010+02:002008-05-13T14:53:47.494+02:00

Word of the day is 'ePP' - Employee purchase programme.There are a couple of flavours of ePP - in all cases, ePP offer some form of employee benefit typically discounted software or hardware. Some companies (such as BA) bundle their enterprise software deals with their hardware deals. e.g. Vista Ultimate + Office 2007 + Dell D630 + HP Printer. Discount rates are typically between 10% and 20% but

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-90710297493448999792008-05-05T00:22:00.008+02:002008-05-13T14:54:58.095+02:00

An interesting article from Gizmodo regarding dual SIM phones. Not such a crazy idea, given the number of people who are currently carrying around two phones to support to work / home personas. Not convinced the execution is right - why not just have one phone with two SIM slots and a UI?

Aaron Rajannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4876063455311678492.post-81762127968990701812008-05-04T22:22:00.009+02:002008-05-09T13:35:49.918+02:00

Welcome to the worlds first consumerisation blog (or at least the first that I know about).Why should we use blogger...? A couple of thoughts...It's a consumer tool (owned by Google)It's hosted externally (so fit with our eat-our-own dogfood approach)There is some degree of control over permissions - yes don't worry if I've set this up properly those folk from P&G shouldn't be reading

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