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Peter is the managing director of Longhaus and the primary voice of The Naked Chief blog. He founded Longhaus in 2006 following over a decade in international market research and publishing with Forrester Research and META Group (now Gartner). Over the last decade, and after personally participating in several thousand business and sales meetings, public and private presentations and research projects, and writing a few hundred articles, he has come to the conclusion that the profession of ICT analyst research is largely undervalued by the industry he serves. In the decade before starting Longhaus he was only ever asked to explain the research process (how he knew what he knew) once to a journalist and twice to a client. They just never asked. Since starting the company he and his team have been asked twice more in two years. Things are definitely improving, ICT analyst research in Asia Pacific is on the up, and Longhaus is somewhere amongst it all. Peter has also worked for international publishing conglomerates Pearson LLC., and Time Warner Inc., as a staff-writer and book reviewer as well as a strategy advisor to various CIOs of organisations rated within MIS magazine’s Australian Top 50 IT operations.
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Jan 20
2009

Lotusphere 2009 - Day 1 Expectations and Kick-off

Posted by peter.carr in SME , SAP , Lotus , Linux , IBM , HSBC , ERP , Domino , CRM , collaboration , Asia Pacific
  • How should collaboration strategies be different today than 2-years ago? 
  • What is officially in and out of the collaboration stack in 2009 and what are the hand-offs to CRM, ERP and other corporate platforms?
  • Outside of advertising, where are the examples of monetization, or other value creation measures from collaborative human networks?
  • How will IBM address OpenID and other SSO and identity management mechanisms in the collaboration suite/platform
  • What are the mobility and SME options for Enterprise and SMEs in Australia and Asia Pacific?

These are just some of the questions I’ve set out to answer in Orlando this week at IBMs annual Lotusphere conference. In 2009 it has attracted over 7,000 attendees making it the single largest collaboration conference on the planet. To put that in context that’s about 1,000 more than are expected in Spain this year for the Linux User Group conference. With all the yellow and black swarming around Walt Disney World it is akin to being in the jostle at the turnstiles of a Richmond home game in finals week.

Such is the zealousness of a Lotus and Domino devotee that I’m sure there will be people attending Lotusphere this week that won’t even realise there is a presidential inauguration on Tuesday (Wednesday Australian time). So I might have to watch what I say this week or just remove my picture from the blog until Thursday. I am looking forward to the fervour of a big American conference. They are quite unlike anything we see in Australia. How many Australian ICT events are opened by Dan Ackroyd?

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