You really have to read the last three posts backward. I was trying to make a point about leveraging Internet technology to connect people and save time and money over conventional business processes that involve face-to-face meetings. It’s very hard to make this claim, but this is about as close as I have ever been to being in a moment when a lot of things changed all at once. Check out this thread.
Salesforce’s second PR of the day is a wonderful slap upside of the head. In case you doubted the importance of the support cloud announcement, the good people at Change.gov—Barack Obama’s tell-me-what-you-think-is most-important citizen feedback site just announced that they are using Salesforce CRM Ideas to collect citizen feedback. Not bad for a product that will be announced in three hours.
CRM Magazine/destinationCRM.com
CRMBuyer
ForecastingClouds
InSide CRM
SearchCRM
Animal Spirits
Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod
Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning
Crowdsourcing
Dealing with Darwin, Geoffrey Moore
Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics
Strategy and the Fat Smoker
The Black Swan
The Wisdom of Crowds
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