The mesh, coming soon to a device near you, won’t just change your technology experiences. Actually, it’s not just coming …
Symphony of Disruption and Disintermediation
In prior blogs about Schumpeter’s Gale, you explored how the winds of technological change and creative destruction are picking up …
Even Bright Companies Get the Blues
As the global technological revolution accelerates, a wave of creative destruction is overtaking the infrastructures of many of the world’s …
Will The New Planetary Datastream Blow You To Tatters?
In an earlier blog I covered the rapid approach of gale-force change, in the form of a planet-wide mesh of …
The Global Mesh and Why Your Business Needs to Care About It
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be an early adopter. If you purchased one of the first cellular telephones, for example, …
Want to Get in the Ring with Google? Watch Their Content Footwork
Few executives can muster the financial punching power of tech super heavyweights like Tim Cook or Larry Page. But we …
Integrating Your Business’ Technology
Are your technologies like islands in the stream of information? How well do they work together when the stream turns into a torrent? Do your legacy e-mail, CRM, and accounting systems cooperate effortlessly …
The New Farmer In Chief: Long Range Planning
I wish most CEOs could spend some time working as farmers. Because if they did, they would learn that farmers …
IT Departments and the Gordian Knot
The Gordian Knot. It’s a popular metaphor for a problem that becomes intractable – at least if you try to …
Blockbuster Syndrome: Which technology are you betting your future on?
I always find it amusing that some of the biggest critics of disruptive technology trends are often technologists. Whenever our …
Are You Ready for the Global Mesh?
We are on the verge of a new world: a radically decentralized, more highly interconnected world. A global society that …
Unfinished Projects: What’s a CEO to Do?
We all have the neighbor, friend, or relative who has their kitchen floor torn up, their bathroom halfway remodeled, and …
Fear of the Black Swan and Risk Assessment
If you are at the C-level in a business, you probably worry about the Black Swan event: an unforeseen catastrophe …
How to Choose the Right IT Consulting Firm
Google the term “IT consulting firm” sometime and you will get a few hits… 222 million hits to be exact. …