It’s Time to Reinvent Knowledge Work
Dr. Robert Ballard and his team have used robots to explore the mid-Atlantic ridge where our earth births her new "skin" by oozing out...
Power to the Edge
The four fundamental principles of the agile, "edge-based" organization are situational awareness, skills, values, and decision rights....
Why Amazon Will Innovate Past Kindle and Microsoft's Bing Will Never Win
When I bought my iPad it was very easy to download my new Kindle application to read all my books I bought on Amazon, and I'm sure that...
Do Your Knowledge Workers Have a "Bitsmith"?
Along with my colleagues Jeff Hesse and Terry Holliday, I have been trying to understand what makes some teams of knowledge workers more...
Wolframalpha vs. Google = Power vs. Simplicity?
Google tapped into an existing set of mental relationships to make their model work. Think of Andy Warhol; Andy worked with Campbell Soup...
A Better Way to Rate Bonds
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant." – Justice Lewis Brandeis A day before Lehman went bankrupt, they carried an A rating from Moody's on...
Why Twitter is the Duct Tape of Marketing and Why Every Firm Needs to Know How to Use It
Chris Curran & John Sviokla Duct tape is universally useful because it is incredibly simple, almost infinitely flexible, easily...
Why Google Should Buy OfferPal
Offerpal reports itself to be the leading platform for the monetization of social networks. Their key service is the ability to give...
Does Cisco Have its Head in the Clouds
Many pundits are railing about Cisco's move into the server market because the company's current gross margins are 10-20% less in the...
Google Earth and The Demand Lens
My older brother Skip is a doctor who started and runs a substance abuse clinic in Rhode Island. His business is booming! But if you...
A Tale of Two Economies: How to regain trust in our markets…
Our economy relies equally on rational economic transactions and mutually felt trust in the trustworthiness of the system. In this...
Yahoo’s Reorganization: Moving deck chairs on the Titanic?
I get worried when a person who grew up in a slower software world (e.g. Autodesk) gets to be CEO of a firm like Yahoo! which sits in the...
Why the Internet is As Important to Our Recovery As the Stimulus Package
I am optimistic that we will have the most innovative decade that this country has ever seen, and it is largely due to the fact that the...
The Fifth Wave: Why social media is here to stay
I believe that we are in the fifth wave of information technology adoption in society and organizations. The first was centralized...
When Zombies Mate: A thought experiment about the merger of GM and Sirius XM
There is something ironic about the fact that a company that sells navigation information inside the car is three times as valuable as...
Interface Tips from Pablo Picasso and Google
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Pablo Picasso Great art always draws upon deep images which are familiar to us on a...
The Zagat's Guide to Doctors: Reputation management in the digital age
A recent New York Times article mentioned that the very famous Nina Zagat was entering the Doctor rating business for insurance company...