Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley
Theo Priestley is Vice President and Chief Evangelist at Software AG, responsible for enabling the marketing and voice of the industry's leading Business Process, Big Data/ In-Memory/ Complex Event Processing, Integration and Transaction suite of platforms. Theo writes for several technology and business related sites including his own successful blog IT Redux. When he isn't evangelizing he's playing videogames, collecting comics and takes the odd photo now and then. Theo was previously an independent industry analyst and successful enterprise transformation consultant.
Customers are just part of the process, not the journey
Journey won 8 awards including Game Of The Year at the DICE conference this week, an accolade which was well deserved for a number...
Could VendorStack spell the end of analyst vendor reviews ?
Ah. The Gartner Magic (read: tragic) Quadrant. Staple butt of my ridicule and chagrin to a great many vendors. But there shines a glimmer...
How Google Glass could change the enterprise
When Microsoft launched their Surface tables I could see a lot more enterprise use from the device than simply moving photos around during the...
Is there a future for real innovation ?
Have you noticed how tech savvy children have become but are no longer streetwise ? I read a friend's thoughts on his own site...
Will the death of LinkedIn Answers drive people to Quora ?
LinkedIn has announced that as of the end of January, Answers will be discontinued. In an email shot to users it stated: We're focusing our…
Man outsources his job to China: fraud or brilliance ?
This article originally appeared on Successful Workplace. This week it was reported that a US employee outsourced his development job to a Chinese code shop...
The high street is dead and it’s all your fault !
Within a week two big and well established UK retail chains will more than likely disappear for good. For Jessops that's already happened, for...
In enterprise social, it’s not how many you manage but who you influence that counts
I overheard a partially interesting conversation on the train a couple of nights ago. I say partially because it involved two junior managers comparing...
What goes around comes around
A tweet sparked this one. And it's true. The IT and the business world are just like the fashion industry where trends and styles...
Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation
I had an interesting conversation with a representative of a UK Regulator over the festive season. Having been involved in a number of regulatory...
If you’re outsourcing to save money you’re doing it for the wrong reasons
According to some sources, one of the earliest examples of outsourcing was in 1949 when an accountant created a company in New Jersey to...
The true cost of customer service ?
According to a recent report commissioned by Oracle, 81% of European consumers would happily hand over more of their hard-earned for a better customer...
Worksocial, BPM and beyond: an interview with Appian CEO, Matthew Calkins
I recently interviewed Matt on his thoughts on BPM, Enterprise Social and where it's all heading for the future. Matt has been the President,...
For marketing, the times they are a-changin’
In 1964 Bob Dylan wrote a song which in his recollection was to create an "anthem of change for the moment." For the time...
BPM, Space and Gamification nostalgia: the year is 1984 and I am Mostly Harmless
In 1984 a bit of a phenomenon hit the scene. It had nothing to do with Big Brother or Orwell's vision of a dysfunctional...
“There’s an app for that” is not a mobile strategy
How many times have we heard that line ? As companies scramble to meet the mobile demands of the consumer the amount of poorly...
“I finally cracked it” – One year on, was the Apple HDTV remark Steve’s last laugh at the television...
In 2011 the official Steve Jobs autobiography was released and out of all of the text there was one paragraph that seemed to create...
Hot off the press: 3D printing spells the end of “Made in China”
If you watch the trends there's been a splash of announcements from 3D printing startups and secured funding, most recently Form1 receiving 6 times...
Forget the CMO and CIO, you need a MOO
Gartner predicts that by 2017 the average IT budget of a CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) will be larger than a CIO's budget. Yawn, another...
Is Sharepoint 2013 enough to challenge other enterprise social networks?
In July Ballmer announced Sharepoint 2013 to an eager audience and gave access to the preview. New Social features, improved MySite interface, Skydrive for...