system two

system two
start-up thinking in the enterprise

Thursday, 24 March 2011

fCRM - Facebook customer relationship management

Why is any large scale corporation bothering to maintain the illusion of control over its data and customer relationship management?

Every client I encounter at the moment has a story about how....one day.....once they've spent x amount of cash they'll have 360 degree, clean customer data.

Its never going to happen!

In ecommerce we've accepted fCommerce because our ATG / SAP implemenations are clunky and Accenture take us to the cleaners us every time they change a page.

Lets now accept fCRM "Facebook customer relationship management".

Ditch your local customer databases and access customer data that is actively.....willingly maintained by all of us.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

blackberry and its appeal to young women

The meme of young people using Blackberry's is not  success – it is the ultimate sign of failure...

Blackberry was a device designed for the high spending business market which has been so eclipsed by its competition, that it has been forced to eek out an existence on the margins of a market, appealing only to a poor, barely literate underclass who use it out of necessity rather than design.

An abject business failure borne out in the hard data of their shareprice ...

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Arresting Julian Assange is an absolute disgrace...

http://www.interpol.int/public/icpo/pressreleases/pr2010/PR101Notice.html

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Thursday, 4 November 2010

".....properly measuring performance is the cure for bullshit."

Interesting post from oliver Blanchard here on failure. here