Enterprises in Europe need more creative portals to increase revenue

European companies need to be more innovative and creative as they’re dealing with smaller markets. This is probably the reason why we hear and see more integrated full service portal concepts in Europe, while the US can still focus more on dedicated web applications.

Outlook + Xobni = >10% productivity

After a long struggle of internal discussions and problems at the service provider, last July Componence finally introduced Exchange and Outlook in our Dutch office. Internally some of our technical minds were anti-Microsoft and rather used Google Mail and Calendar. But finally the reasoning to synchronize with our PDA’s won and Exchange became a fact.
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LinkedIn & Wicket, a nice way to bring people together

About 3 months ago Stefan Schrader and Kristofer Eriksson, friends of mine from Germany, were helping me out at Componence to find new technologies for our new product developments. When it came to front end technology they told my team and me for the first time about Wicket, a cool components oriented web development framework [...]

How to make Enterprise 2.0 concrete and to define result expectations, to justify the necessary investments?

Enterprise 2.0 needs to become more concrete, expectations, results. This article tells about how Enterprsie 2.0 ideas really can work when international collaboration becomes a vision and even a necessity.

To add life to days, where no more days can be added to life

Componence sponsors Team Overstag in the Roparun, an organization committed to give more life to people who have the big ‘C’.

Attacks on Jaipur - a shamefull waste of human capacities

To show another voice, another way, we at Componence are committed to work together with you, the people of Jaipur! We will show all those narrow minded people that through international collaboration good things can be better achieved, rather than to destroy precious human lives and cultures. Together will will contribute in anyway we can to bring more prosperity to the future for the people in Jaipur.

Laptops stolen - no worries; Wiki, Gmail and external drives save the day

Loss of laptops can lead to less damage when Web 2.0 tools are used to store most of your critical data.

Cultural differences # 1 - Doing business in Germany

Maybe it’s because the conditions of cheap transportation, food and drinks allow the Germans to have more real social contacts and have less time for online contacts. If that’s the case imho many of us should visit Germany more …

Enterprise 2.0: mature business communities can control itself #2

Enjoy the blogs of your colleagues and do not fear the honesty, but rather try to understand what your colleagues are saying and figure out what you need to do to really fix the underlying issue.

Even Deloitte was inpired by me :)

Some time ago to fill in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50 CEO Survey‘. The survey tells how CEO’s think about the success of their company. As I was inspired by the results, the feeling was probably mutual as I clearly put a stamp on their research.

If you’re curious why I’m so proud, download the [...]