Social Weekly Update: The Responsive Back Office: Lessons from Lean, Agile, and DevOps

This Week In Social Monday, February 16

LATEST FROM THE GIGAOM RESEARCH TEAM Apple is accelerating its enterprise push New evidence is emerging that shows Apple is doubling down on its push into the enterprise software sector. This past week, at a Goldman Sachs conference, Tim Cook was very clear about the partnership between Apple and IBM when responding to a question from Gary Cohn, the […]   by Stowe Boyd   February 15, 2015

FEATURED RESEARCH The Responsive Back Office: Lessons from Lean, Agile, and DevOps Companies can learn from Lean and Agile approaches to make their back-office operations as responsive as the consumer-oriented front office. Subscriber content.Sign up for a free trial   by Philip Sheldrake   February 4, 2015   Outlook: Future of work in 2015 Expect technologies and processes that will make day-to-day tasks more personalized, enhance employee engagement, and alter the overall culture of the workplace in 2015. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Stowe Boyd   December 31, 2014   The perils of the precarious: at work in the gig economy A set of economic, political, and societal forces is currently causing profound changes in work and in the relationship between workers and the businesses that benefit from their labor. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Stowe Boyd   December 3, 2014

ANALYST BLOG POSTS Nadella will continue strategic acquisition of mobile productivity apps  by Stowe Boyd Handle is another innovative take on email, calendar, and tasks  by Stowe Boyd Jive promotes Elisa Steele to CEO  by Stowe Boyd Cure back-office blues with tech management techniques  by David Card Can the legal system be Moneyballed?  by Stowe Boyd Zappos’ ‘Open Market’ surge pricing for call center workers  by Stowe Boyd Microsoft reported to acquire calendar app Sunrise  by Stowe Boyd Jive breaks out of the ‘social collaboration’ platform model with new ‘workstyle’ apps  by Stowe Boyd Amazon launches WorkMail to compete with Microsoft and Google  by Stowe Boyd The best Gmail client is Outlook? Really?  by Stowe Boyd