Social Networking and the Big White Elephant hunt...

Posted 15 days ago by Ed Charvet
16/12/2007

Euan Semple's blog flashed up on my RSS with "Ignore Gartner".  Having had a long relationship with Gartner, as a client and user, I could think of many an occasion in the past where Gartner reports would effectively kick a big hole in a thought process, only to find, with passage of time, that they missed the obvious and life went on as we always felt it would.  So I looked at Euan's blog, following the link to the article that he was referring to and YUP, agreed 100% with the sentiment of the blog - Ignore Gartner in reference...

Sharing the risk, Sharing the reward and real market intelligence

Posted 18 days ago by Ed Charvet
13/12/2007

We at Trovus have recently found ourselves having conversations with people who are taking an increasingly creative stance when it comes to agreeing terms.  We see this as a real endorsement that we are presenting a confident front to our propositions.  Sharing the risk of any deployment means that we are spending a good amount of time understanding businesses that are relatively alien to us.  We find however that the web and by that I mean specifically people websites, can deliver to us a significant volume of information that allows us to make hopefully well informed choices if we throw...

Crimes against the blogosphere

Posted 24 days ago by Caspar
08/12/2007

As a business owner and manager there are many competing things to do - create and drive strategy, build new products, sell, deliver the work, recruit and manage staff, finances, legal...you know the story, its the stuff - all those things you cram into a week.So for my 5am moment today I reflected on the additional stuff which we encourage people to take on - blogging. One of the common question sets we get is around blogging - what should I be doing, what should and should'nt I be writing about and how to I find time to write a...