Musings: The Amplification of Communication
I love how the fragmentation of communication is actually moving away from appropriate use, and moving to duplicative use, amplifying the total volume of messages on the planet — while real content or...
View ArticleIt’s a Brave, New, Social World
Twelve years ago, in the early days of the Internet, I had an experience that opened my eyes about the potential of then-nascent social media (primarily email, websites, and blogs). Our small 30,000...
View ArticleGame Over. Or is it just beginning?
Most consumers have wondered why e-book pricing was so close to bound copy pricing. I know I have. Eliminate the warehouses, trees, delivery trucks, stores, shelf space, clerks – and you are left...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End of Voicemail
Sat in on a session at our local SIM chapter last night. SIM is one of those professional groups that have been with me almost my whole career (ACM is another). Ina Kamenz, the CIO at Thermo Fisher...
View ArticleThe Real Winners of Big Data
Arik Hesseldahl at the Wall Street Journal just uploaded the exhibits from the Oracle HP trial. Interesting reading. It is stunning how the stored collection of emails, PowerPoints, and the like...
View ArticlePearls from MIT
For close to a decade now, I have been attending the annual MIT CIO conference . Always a delight to bump into old friends, and get some new perspective. Our own Mark McDonald led a panel...
View ArticleMaking a choice and BYOD
Markets usually are a ying and yang. Everyone is trying to maximize profit, and a certain give and take is always evident. For instance, internet access. In the US , consumer network providers...
View ArticlePickups and sports cars and BYOD, oh my!
By now we are starting to get a pretty good idea how the device market is shaping up, and the implications to Enterprise IT. Let’s look at it from another gear head device market: Automobiles. Phones...
View ArticleThe Digitalization of Business
One of the things we talk about at Gartner is how computerization is changing business – not just back office systems (HR, CRM), but from a fundamental product perspective. I can remember discussing...
View ArticleTrends, Fads, and Strategy
What you can count on at the end of every year is “Year in Review”, and “Crystal Ball” type of articles, blog posts, etc. I suppose it gives one a sense of continuity and anchor on an annual basis....
View ArticleDigital Business, Global Warming, and Too Little, Too Late…
My colleague Jorge Lopez is leading what has become a major focal point for Gartner Research: what to do about becoming a Digital Business – or stated another way, if you don’t start thinking of...
View ArticleIt’s a Brave, New, Social World
Twelve years ago, in the early days of the Internet, I had an experience that opened my eyes about the potential of then-nascent social media (primarily email, websites, and blogs). Our small 30,000...
View ArticleGame Over. Or is it just beginning?
Most consumers have wondered why e-book pricing was so close to bound copy pricing. I know I have. Eliminate the warehouses, trees, delivery trucks, stores, shelf space, clerks – and you are left...
View ArticleThe Beginning of the End of Voicemail
Sat in on a session at our local SIM chapter last night. SIM is one of those professional groups that have been with me almost my whole career (ACM is another). Ina Kamenz, the CIO at Thermo Fisher...
View ArticleThe Real Winners of Big Data
Arik Hesseldahl at the Wall Street Journal just uploaded the exhibits from the Oracle HP trial. Interesting reading. It is stunning how the stored collection of emails, PowerPoints, and the like...
View ArticlePearls from MIT
For close to a decade now, I have been attending the annual MIT CIO conference . Always a delight to bump into old friends, and get some new perspective. Our own Mark McDonald led a panel...
View ArticleMaking a choice and BYOD
Markets usually are a ying and yang. Everyone is trying to maximize profit, and a certain give and take is always evident. For instance, internet access. In the US , consumer network providers...
View ArticlePickups and sports cars and BYOD, oh my!
By now we are starting to get a pretty good idea how the device market is shaping up, and the implications to Enterprise IT. Let’s look at it from another gear head device market: Automobiles. Phones...
View ArticleThe Digitalization of Business
One of the things we talk about at Gartner is how computerization is changing business – not just back office systems (HR, CRM), but from a fundamental product perspective. I can remember discussing...
View ArticleTrends, Fads, and Strategy
What you can count on at the end of every year is “Year in Review”, and “Crystal Ball” type of articles, blog posts, etc. I suppose it gives one a sense of continuity and anchor on an annual basis....
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