Category Archives: Collaboration

Collaborative Consumption: How it will disrupt “traditional” Business Models

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: January 9, 2011

Time Magazine recently rated Collaborative Consumption, which is defined as technology enabled sharing, trading, renting and bartering of goods and services, as one of the top ten green stories of 2010 (for more, see this). In a study titled The New Sharing Economy by Latitude Research and Shareable Magazine, it was found that: 75% of respondents predicted [...]

Social Intranet – Unleash the power of Enterprise

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: December 28, 2010

Imagine a large enterprise with tens of thousands of employees across several time zones on multiple continents, all collaborating with each other, aware of others’ expertise and interests, working seamlessly as if all of them were in the same room. You may say that this is a pipe dream and cannot be reality any time [...]

SAP’s Growth Strategy: Mobile, On-Demand and Analytics

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: July 30, 2010

Watch SAP Co-CEO Bill McDermott detail his company’s organic growth strategy that includes focus on: Business Applications that drive industry On-Demand/Cloud computing In-memory technology Analytics, and Mobile This is a great growth strategy, but it is equally important for large Enterprise Applications firms such as SAP and Oracle to incorporate in their offering technological tools that foster collaboration, not only within [...]

Cognitive Surplus and Social Business: Win-Win Strategy

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: July 25, 2010

Social Networking technology has made it incredibly easy and inexpensive for people to collaborate and work together irrespective of their physical location. Given the proliferation of high speed internet access from home and mobile devices, something unthinkable even a few years ago (remember those dial-up modems), we are increasingly going to see people from diverse [...]

Social Media and Co-creation of New Products: Del Monte Case Study

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: December 15, 2009

Del Monte case study is an excellent example of co-creation of a new product with loyal customers. This approach can not only reduce time and cost involved in new product development, but can greatly minimize the risk of new product being a “flop” – because customers have “co-created” it and it will be popular even [...]

What DARPA’s Red balloon contest can teach Social Media Pros

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: December 6, 2009

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced a Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet. This challenge required participants to discover exact position of 10 large, red weather balloons that DARPA placed at undisclosed locations across continental United States. The first person or team that identified all the locations correctly [...]

Howard Rheingold on collaboration

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: November 20, 2009

Excellent TED talk by Howard Rheingold on coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action. Very relevant in the context of Social Media

Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: November 20, 2009

Excellent Video: TED talk by Charles Leadbeater on Collaborative Creativity. Must watch given Social Media Collaboration context.

Enterprise 2.0 and Internal Innovation Process

By Harish Kotadia, Ph.D. | Published: November 5, 2009

Excellent Preso on Enterprise 2.0 and how it can help Internal Innovation Process: Enterprise 2.0 In Practice How It Can Help Your Internal Innovation Process View more documents from DigiRedo .

  • About Dr. Harish Kotadia


  • Harish Kotadia, Ph.D.

  • Dr. Harish Kotadia has more than twelve years’ work experience as a hands-on CRM Program and Project Manager implementing CRM and Analytics solutions for Fortune 500 clients in the US.

    He also has about five years’ work experience as a Research Executive in Marketing Research and Consulting industry working for leading MR organizations.

    Dr. Harish currently lives in Dallas, Texas, USA and works as Social CRM/CRM and Analytics Consulting Lead for Infosys Technologies. Views and opinion expressed in this blog are his own.




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