Real-world tech: cloud at the coalface
Every analyst says cloud computing is crazy big and only going to get bigger. But what is the state of play with real businesses right now? Adam Burns has been finding out. Hurrah cloud! By solving problems that IT and the business have been suffering with for years, this technology has broken free of the ...
AMD: Marketing the Unmarketable
Ask any successful marketing executive, and they will tell you that marketing – as a business function – is no easy task. Getting audiences and consumers excited about your product, so that they actually want to engage with it, and go out and purchase it, isn’t something to be approached lightly. Unless, perhaps, your product ...
3 Ways Co-location Data Centres Are Helping Your Business
If you’ve found yourself reading this blog post then we’re guessing you’ve got a good grasp of what big data is and what it looks like (despite the elusiveness of any concrete definition). Although relatively old lived, big data in its ‘latest’ form is hoping to combine a maze of new data combinations – internal ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Three
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...
Yabba Dabba Does It: Cartoons and Creative Thinking
The release of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park frankly terrified me. In 1993, as an eight-year-old child, it was the first time I had ever really been conscious of what dinosaurs were capable of. One scene in particular has forever plagued me. In it, child actors Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards are in the compound’s ...
Weekly Roundup: Week Two
Here at MeetTheBoss we pride ourselves on the quality of our content. So what better way to share with you the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the crème de la crème, every Friday for the week’s best content, than with a weekly roundup?! As you may already know, as well as ...
Project Management: Every Project Needs A Lifeguard
@Nickwallen Be it an agile scrum build or waterfall – or a mile-marker laden, enterprise-wide rollout – any project will benefit from a lifeguard. Why swim out without one? Indeed, the traits of a lifeguard are well compared to those of a good leader. With no disrespect to product owners or project managers – having ...
Will hybrid clouds be solution-driven?
A recent GigaOm article on Amazon’s enterprise cloud ambitions struck a chord after I landed at AWS reInvent. A while back, I had written about the Public Versus Private Cloud Trap and a reader suggested that the ‘name game’ is merely a battle between VMware and Amazon who are, in effect, marketing to their strengths. ...
Randi Zuckerberg: In the Blink of an Eye
It’s 2005. Your foot is well and truly in the door with your dream job at Ogilvy & Mather. A year in, you decide to scrap it and work for your younger brother’s under-the-radar start up. No more world-leading reputation. No more job security. And, yep, no more company expense accounts. You’ve just seemingly waved ...
A Snapshot of Canon
If there was a company that is an essential part of any office environment, then it would be Canon. Developing not just cameras, but photocopiers, printers and computers, Canon has over the past 40 years made itself more than a manufacturer of cameras, but a leader in the business solutions market. The company’s origins can ...