My background in advertising makes this an interesting topic and you will hopefully soon see where the company customer interactions come in. I started out in the ad industry in […]
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NFT – a foray

Update on As a Service Trends
Sources for image gallery plus other related articles: Culture: The Biggest Challenge in Getting the Subscription Model Right MaaS transit: The business of mobility as a service The first era of SaaS ends: ‘Best of breed’ was prelude to […]
Read moreThe backlash to video calling and the alternatives
Okay I wouldn’t call just one decision from the CEO of a major bank the indication of a backlash: Citigroup CEO ordains Zoom-free Fridays to ease ‘relentless’ pandemic workday. But […]
Read moreState of a category – customer success 2021
I’ve been in this space formally for almost 10 years now. I say formally because I’ve been doing the work a lot longer, just under another name. I’ve been passionate […]
Read moreAccentures Technology Vision 2021
From the article this 👇
“Small pilots and incremental scaling are an obsolete luxury, and the friction between research, development, and large-scale deployment must diminish or disappear.”
Employee customer experience connection – infographic
Sources Harvard Business Review: The Key to Happy Customers? Happy EmployeesJosh Bersin: The Massive Market Impact of Microsoft VivaGoogle Trends More here
Read moreCustomer Success and Marketing functions are increasingly interrelated and working together. With scale motions and operations it’s driving customer experiences to new heights. I’m not sure its a new trend but I’ve started watching it here: Customer Success Marketing and Scale
A trend watcher is an innovator that spots trends and determines if they are here to stay and whether they should be incorporated into existing strategy. I enjoy it, it keeps me on my innovation toes and I dabble. I’ve captured this view with a few trends I’m tracking and published reports on already: Trend Watching
Tech trends of 2021 number 31
The title of this post is based on an article from Fast Company: Here are the top tech trends of 2021, according to 30 experts. I am adding to the […]
Read moreMicrosoft Teams as a Platform – the next frontier
Microsoft Teams, with its 115M users, is way more than just chat or meetings. From this Geekwire article:
“Meetings are important, but they are transactional. Work happens before meetings, during meetings, and after meetings. That ability to have the workflow completely stitched together is where Microsoft 365 really stands out. That reinforcing effect of Teams by itself, and then Microsoft 365 in conjunction with Teams, is where you’ll see a significant amount of usage growth, more so than individual tools of the past, even.”
CEO Microsoft, Satya Nadella
Another shift the pandemic has accelerated – enterprise sales
B2B selling was already changing before COVID-19. I’ve written before about how I think customer success practices with their emphasis on product usage is changing sales to be more data […]
Read moreUpdate on As a Service Trends
Here is list of recent announcements and posts in the As a Service trend which I am curating in a magazine on Flipboard. Here they are (20 of the most […]
Read moreContent Marketing 2020 – six things that work

Six of the things that I think work in terms of content marketing in 2020, captured in a DanelDoodle. This list is not exhaustive and the brief points for each are also not set in stone. Below is a brief additional paragraph on each.
(more…)The supremacy of business outcomes in a low code no code world
You may know of the new low code / no code approach to developing technology solutions (good primer if not). Simply put, it offers a development platform to users that […]
Read moreAs a Service trend research – customer solutions
This is a topic I will be covering as a chapter in my As a Service trend report. It’s not entirely dissimilar to one of the other chapter topics I […]
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