Sometimes, it’s the Technologists!

Here we are sitting around an impressive conference table at the plush headquarters of a multinational manufacturing company (names have been changed, of course, to protect the guilty) when their chief technology guy proclaims:

“I want to make clear one… Read full post »

Under the dubious title of “Companies Are Erecting In-House Social Networks” Verne Kopytoff of The New York Times writes:

“It’s one more instance of how consumer technology trends, like the use of tablet computers, are crossing into office life. Because of Facebook, most peopl… Read full post »

That and “grok” are two of Robert A. Heinlein’s many contributions into the modern lexicon. The first, an acronym for “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.” The second, grok, means to understand something completely, entirely.

Which brings us to a question… Read full post »

I was torn about the title of this entry. Should it be Sting’s “Heavy Clouds But No Rain” or should it be Peter Allen’s and Carole Bayer Sager’s “Everything Old Is New Again?” I settled on the former. But either would work, as we’ll see!

The New York… Read full post »

I was having a conversation with a client who, like many of us, is fighting a war on two fronts.

First, he is fighting a war of business survival. Day in, day out, he needs to figure out how to position his business for tomorrow; he must try to predict… Read full post »