In one of the more anticlimactic business moves in the brief history of the web, Yahoo! CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang announced he will step down once a replacement is found for the top spot at the iconic portal. For many, this will be a milestone in the drama that has surrounded Yahoo! in its attempt to define a viable future, one most believe will result in a partnership or acquisition.
Gartner Blog Network - Allen Weiner: Jerry Yang Steps Down From Yahoo!
November 18th, 2008 by Allen Weiner · No Comments
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Gartner Blog Network - Whit Andrews: My fellow search dweeb
November 18th, 2008 by Whit Andrews · No Comments
I never met Jerry Yang. Or, maybe what I should say is, I haven’t met Jerry Yang yet, but I guess I might some day. Anyway, he’s not going to run Yahoo any more, he says.
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Gartner Blog Network - David McCoy: Does BPM Leadership Vary by Geography?
November 17th, 2008 by David McCoy · 1 Comment
Well, it’s sort of true. Our survey data (n= 338) shows that “the business side” in both Europe and Asia will be statistically more likely to lead BPM projects than will be US business-side staff. The differences are substantial; this is not a “margin of error” thing.
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Gartner Blog Network - Greg Young: Dr. No and Yes-Men
November 17th, 2008 by Greg Young · No Comments
I’m at the Gartner Enterprise Networking Summit in Orlando, Florida. The previous sentence provides two interesting segues: first, I’m reminded why so many northeasterners winter in Florida, and second, the majority of attendees here work in enterprise networking, the organizational colleague of network security.
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Gartner Blog Network - Andrew Frank: Will Economics Kill the UGC Star?
November 14th, 2008 by Andrew Frank · No Comments
The vibe was strange at Ad:tech in New York last week: on the one hand, the election instilled a state of delirious euphoria on the crowd (and left no doubt as to where new media stood); on the other hand, economy-induced fear could not be suppressed, and for many was clearly triggering flash-backs to the beginning of the decade. As a result, many reassuring words could be heard, like “at least this time we’re not at the epicenter,”
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Gartner Blog Network - Nick Jones: Are we the last generation that understands IT?
November 13th, 2008 by Nick Jones · No Comments
Some of our recent research suggests that young people just aren’t cooperating; they’re not behaving as “digital natives” should. Many of them are very pragmatic, interested in important things like meeting and dating, but they don’t want to become classic digital natives immersed in technology and expert in its use. They just want technology that matches their needs.
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Gartner Blog Network - Andrea Di Maio: More Excitement About Social Networks in Government - Obama’s Fault?
November 13th, 2008 by Andrea Di Maio · No Comments
Yesterday I had two illuminating conversations, one professional and one personal, that show how people with government responsibilities or aspirations are falling even more in love with web 2.0 and social networks than before.
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Gartner Blog Network - Allen Weiner: More on Protail Video
November 13th, 2008 by Allen Weiner · No Comments
Gartner issued a press release on a report I authored on protail video, a concept the Media IAS team began writing about a year ago. The concept–video that lives between professional network content and general UGC–has evolved a great deal since my first report and will undoubtedly have subsegments of its own, especially as new tools come to the market (such as Boinx) that turn creative ideas into “good video” with relative ease.
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Gartner Blog Network - Debbie Wilson: Procurement Risk Management
November 11th, 2008 by Debbie Wilson · 1 Comment
One of procurement’s lesser known jobs is risk management – taking proactive steps to prepare for rainy day supply-disrupting events such as earthquakes, supplier bankruptcies and acquisitions. Risk management is as much an art as it is a science, because success requires broad contemplation concerning what could go wrong and how likely each potential disaster is, and planning fully for every possible problem is simply not practical.
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Gartner Blog Network - French Caldwell: Who Do You Want for Obama’s Chief Technology Officer?
November 11th, 2008 by French Caldwell · No Comments
It really boils down to whether the CTO is going to be a super-CIO, or part of the economic team. Huh? (Click Here to Vote for CTO!)
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