March, 2012

Paul Gillin

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IDC: US Tech Firms Underestimate Emerging Market Opportunity

Paul Gillin

Outdated perceptions about emerging markets blind North American technology companies to the substantial IT investments being made there, according to a top International Data Corp. researcher. Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa (CEMA) and Asia Pacific economies are will spend nearly as much on IT as the US in 2012, said Sandra Ng , Group Vice President of the Information & Communications Technology Market Group at IDC in an address to the research company’

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IDC Sees Massive Disruption From Industry’s Platform Shift

Paul Gillin

The global IT industry is in the middle of an epic platform shift and the rules for survival in a market built on mobility, big data analytics, social business and cloud computing will be very different than those that applied to the previous client/server generation. That was the message from IDC Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst Frank Gens as he kicked off the research firm’s Directions 2012 conference in Boston this morning.

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CIO Challenges Educators to Stay Relevant

Paul Gillin

Wichita State University CIO Dr. Ravi Pendse last month issued a provocative challenge to educators to rethink their tools and tactics if they are to remain relevant a decade from now. Addressing a regional edition of the popular TED conference in Wichita, KS, Dr. Pendse , who is both the CIO of Wichita State University and an award-winning professor, said he chose the term “relevant” deliberately.

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

This graphic, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday , says a whole lot about Facebook’s success and Google+ ‘s struggles, but it’s an incomplete picture of the true value of social networks. Here are some thoughts on what the numbers indicate and what they hide. The Journal piece was mainly intended to dramatize how badly Google+ is performing in the market despite Google’s huge search footprint.

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Yes, There Really Are a Lot More Pitchers Today

Paul Gillin

Sports Illustrated has a great profile of Albert Pujols in this week’s issue. It includes a line that dramatizes just how much the game has changed since the days of Ted Williams: Williams, for example, played until he was 42. He retired having played 544 night games, and faced 268 pitchers on seven teams in 11 ballparks, none west of Kansas City.

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Transforming P&G

Paul Gillin

When Stan Joosten first contacted me about joining Procter & Gamble’s Digital Advisory Board, I initially hesitated. The volunteer position would demand a few days of my time every year just as I was beginning to transition my focus to B2B and away from P&G’s consumer markets. But this was P&G, after all, and Stan, who is Innovation Manager for Holistic Consumer Communications, is a persuasive guy who had already signed up several people I respect.