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 hyper fast moving world of search and social media. Carol Bartz’s blog, promises that the...
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 internet has allowed the minimum efficient scale of starting a new business and scaling that business to...
I believe that we are in the fifth wave of information technology adoption in society and organizations. The first was centralized mainframe computing, second was departmental mini-computing, the third was individual focused personal computing, the fourth networked based internet computing, and now social computing. ...
There is something ironic about the fact that a company that sells navigation information inside the car is three times as valuable as the company that makes the cars! More specifically, Garmin, the navigation firm who derives three quarters of its revenue from autos...
When you share information on a social site: Who owns the content? Who controls it? This is a very complex and interesting question at the core of Facebook’s current turmoil around its terms of service. Last week they tried to keep more rights on...
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso Great art always draws upon deep images which are familiar to us on a fundamental level. I’m certainly not the first to note that Picasso was not only a genius who could craft perfect drawings...
A recent New York Times article mentioned that the very famous Nina Zagat was entering the Doctor rating business for insurance company Wellpoint. The article goes on to worry about the dangers of rating doctors. I agree that the rating of doctors is both...
No one disagrees that we need to take doctor’s records from their 17th century, paper-based, folio state into the electronic world, and the stimulus package signed by President Obama contains approximately $20 billion dollars for the creation of electronic medical records. Of that huge...
Reading the above title you might think that I’m going to advocate a laissez-faire approach to management in which the Chief Executive encourages ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest. Instead, I believe that every executive should be inspired by Darwin’s relentless curiosity...
Well, I admit it. I am fascinated by architecture. Not only the Notre Dame, can you believe the French are so conceited as to put a defect in one of the arches of the grand church as to not invite God’s wrath kind of...