Men, Who Needs Them? Richard Branson: 'Saving the world’ is good business. Technology Forecast: 2010 Issue 2- Personalized and participatory business process. Marge Breya of SAP forecasts how smart digital assets combined with the “process of me” present a compelling opportunity for business process management. Interview conducted by Vinod Baya and Bo Parker Marge Breya is executive vice president at SAP. Breya oversees the full product line for business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, as well the portfolio of SAP BusinessObjects OnDemand offerings.
In addition, Breya is responsible for the portfolio and solution management of SAP NetWeaver within the Technology Group at SAP, leading the Business Solutions and Technology (BST) organization. Breya holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Oregon. PwC: As you look at business process management [BPM] in an enterprise, where are the interesting opportunities in the future? 1234 next page Pg 1. Sound advice from Wim Lockefeer.
I interviewed Wim Lockefeer, a senior project manager at Nascom. Wim has over 15 years of experience in project management and he’s fun to have on the team so I wanted to pick his brain. Wim Lockefeer As usual this post is a summary of what I learned from the interview and my own interpretation. Here’s my last question to start with, answered with a fairly epic quote in my opinion: What does a good project manager do?
A good project manager makes sure the promises that other people make come true. How can a project manager have the biggest impact on a company’s baseline? You can look at this from several perspectives, a project manager has a role facing clients and a role in the middle management layer of a company. Anyhow a PM is responsible for the profitability of a company and is morally bound to wear both hats. Facing the client a project manager helps to realise quality pitches and has a kind of sales evangelist role. How do you keep a clear overview of things? What is quality management? The 2012 Olympic Games: Will Data Save the Day?
Data analysis is being used during the Olympic Games for everything from ensuring a smooth flow of commuter traffic to generating a multi-colored light show on the London Eye each night based on Twitter feed sentiments. Image courtesy of Flickr user Mr G’s Travels. Maybe big data could have saved Mitt Romney from his now infamous diplomatic blunder in London this past week, when the U.S. presidential candidate questioned whether The Big Smoke was ready to stage a successful Olympic Games. The fact is, data analytics are in use everywhere in London during the Games — on the Tube, in the airwaves and on the London Eye, the enormous Ferris wheel that is now staged as a giant emoticon swirling over the city — providing a second-by-second read on everything from public transport to crowd movements to citizen sentiments. TfL is also monitoring ticket sales from its Oyster card prepay system.
On the mobile front, TfL signed on with Virgin Media to offer free Wi-Fi to Tube riders. Open economy. Ok, the future of doom and gloom is getting old fast. At this point, nobody can predict the future, not even Bruce Sterling, Dmitri Orlov or Warren Buffett. Even the billionaires are getting hosed by the economic downturn. But what this really proves is we have entered a new era where the old rules no longer apply. That prospect scares a lot of people, especially the ones who’ve gained the most money and power by maintaining the status quo. The elite have become naive enough to think they can continue getting away with theft and cronyism without any consequences (i.e. mob revolt), but this time they’re wrong. Asynchronous power is getting stronger all the time, which is why the worlds most powerful military is loosing to a small number of decentralized insurgents. I predicted the current economic crisis back in 2002, in my post Capital, Power and Ecology, simply because business as usual is not sustainable.
There is nothing like a crisis to spur rapid evolutionary growth. Localization. Financial and Socioeconomic News Update.