Enterprise social networks will eventually supplant the traditional intranets and portals currently used to manage internal employee communications, workflows, and files. They have the advantages of being purpose-built for today’s business: they are fluid, immediate, end-user oriented and collaborative.
(via emergentfutures)
Source: ibmsocialbiz
IT departments, until very recently, believed that their manifest destiny was to defend the fortress at all costs. The outside world was full of threats - hackers, viruses and malware - and their role was to build high walls that kept marauders out, and some of the wayward employees in. Things have changed. Instead of a fortress, the role of IT is closer to managing a marketplace.
Social Media ROI – You’re looking in the wrong place (chart via McKinsey)
Interesting- but worth noting socmed is beginning to hockey stick on the graph and we are 2 more years intk usage…
(via emergentfutures)
Source: businessesgrow.com
BobNoxious at Ribfest London (Taken with Instagram at Victoria Park)
Marta and Pablo - heading home (Taken with Instagram)
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Fireworks for Canada Day! (Taken with Instagram)
Game changer? maybe.
IKEA has announced launching the Uppleva line of integrated HDTV and furniture: it’s genius, and completely supports my contention from yesterday that only two kinds of retailers are growing. One, like IKEA and Apple, are selling their own designs, more or less exclusively. The second are specialty purveyors of carefully curated goods, like Trader Joe’s.
The Uppleva line is going to be very successful, I predict, and opens the TV market to IKEA, and will hasten the demise of chains like Best Buy:
Matt Burns via TechCrunch
The new UPPLEVA line completely disrupts the big box store’s HDTV buying process with a high-dose injection of Ikea genius.
Ikea has yet to announce the nitty-gritty details around the UPPLEVA line including the price. The line will apparently hit key stores in Stockholm, Milan, Paris, Gdansk, and Berlin in June 2012. Come autumn it will arrive at additional stores in Sweden, Italy, France, Poland, Denmark, Spain, Norway, and Portugal with a more broad launch following in 2013.
The YouTube teaser lays out some basic spec concerning the HDTV. It seems up to the task with a 1080p LED LCD screen, 400Hz response time, and some sort of smart TV functionality — all good stuff. But the HDTV really doesn’t matter. Even though it has the specs of a high-end screen, Ikea could have employed a mid-range model and still made the same magic.
Ikea understands that everything needs to work together. This new product line from the Swedish retailer exemplifies the notion of an all-in-one system. Sure, this probably doesn’t appeal to audio heads or A/V geeks, but it brings a beautiful system that works to the masses. Like with everything else Ikea sells, the UPPLEVA system is completely customizable with a range of TV sizes and cabinet designs. Buyers probably still have to piece them together using those dumb keys, though.
IKEA is one of the few companies that can really battle Apple for the living room.
(via emergentfutures)
Source: stoweboyd
