Author Archives: Bob Evans
Cloud Computing’s Greatest Danger – And Richest Opportunity
For several years now, the technology industry has been engaged in the noble pursuit of delivering more power and speed and elegance into the hands of users, and the results are clear in every facet of our lives—from political revolutions …
Marc Benioff’s Untraditional Love Affair with SAP
It’s comforting to know that and “have a very good relationship with ” and that Benioff himself has “a very good working relationship with Bill McDermott,” the co-CEO of . So, given that everything between the two companies is all lovey-dovey, shouldn’t mind that Benioff says that “’s HR product kind of sucks,” or that [...]
Larry Ellison Calls Out Workday for ‘Two Fundamental Mistakes’
During ’s quarterly earnings call this week, CEO used a rather inoccuous question about object-oriented programming to cite Workday as the only cloud company “on the planet” that doesn’t use a database. And that decision of omission is one of two “fundamental mistakes” Workday has made and will have to overcome, according to Ellison. The [...]
Clayton Christensen on the Origins of Creativity
What’s the origin of creative genius? Why is true creativity so abundant in some people and an utterly foreign concept for others? Is it purely a matter of biology and genetics? Is it something we learn? Is it the product of a powerfully influential teacher or mentor, or of thousands of hours of watching sitcoms [...]
Apple’s Stupendous Success: The Top 10 Reasons from CEO Tim Cook
While most companies today would love to be able to claim growth rates in the high single digits, ’s revenue last quarter grew 73%. How did achieve that? While most people agree that sales of tablets will soon top sales of PCs, most vendors’ tablets have generated little revenue and no mass momentum. Yet the [...]
SuccessFactors’ Lars Dalgaard: SAP Will Turbocharge Our Innovation
A few weeks ago, on his way to a town hall meeting at SAP’s global headquarters in Germany, SuccessFactors’ irrepressible CEO Lars Dalgaard tweeted, “Going 220 km/h with SAP security detail down the Autobahn is good analog of our combined future!” And today, as SAP’s $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors was completed, Dalgaard expanded on that high-speed vision and execution (more…)
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