Wednesday, June 22, 2011 12:49 PM/EST
By John Parkinson Think: Mashups rather than MIPs; Pandora Radio rather than Payroll; Google rather than General Ledger. These will shape what comes next. The forcing functions for innovation are no longer buried in corporate IT departments or the software labs of industry incumbents.
Thursday, June 09, 2011 3:31 PM/EST
By John Parkinson Can you build a successful, growing business, operating dynamically and at global scale on the "Outliers" model? Here's a (work in process) guide to the issues that you'd need to solve.
Monday, May 23, 2011 12:16 PM/EST
By John Parkinson Recently there have been a surge of "auction" sites that work differently from eBay and others of that ilk. These new incarnations are more like a cross between an auction (the competitive bidding process) and a lottery (concentration of value from many small players buying tickets to fund one big winner). It's an idea that's simultaneously brilliant in theory, yet hard to understand how it can possibly work in practice.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011 3:30 PM/EST
By Tony KontzerMike Daisey's thought-provoking one-man show, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, takes the audience back and forth between two worlds: the Apple universe; and Shenzhen, the city in China where oppressed workers make more than half of the world's electronic devices.
Friday, February 18, 2011 3:58 PM/EST
By Tony Kontzer With companies now accepting customer feedback via Facebook pages and monitoring Twitter posts about them, there's a lot of opportunity for decision-makers to over-react to a non-event.
Friday, February 04, 2011 10:18 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer If I were a CIO, I'd be looking for ways to put The Law of 150 to work in my organization. Malcolm Gladwell presents a valid use case for the Law of 150 that's worth revisiting 10 years after his book The Tipping Point topped bestseller lists.
Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:04 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer If Google's Larry Page is going to be the second coming of Apple's Steve Jobs--only without the part about having to rescue his company from near ruin--then someone's going to have to help Page exude the qualities implied by the "E" in his new, old title of CEO.
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 11:20 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer Should the CIO strive to develop a "cult of personality" within the organization?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:46 PM/EST
By Tony Kontzer There's a reason the concept of "change management" has risen in corporate culture--to ease the shock of introducing new technologies and business processes. Perhaps we need a similar practice to take hold in the technology-infused celebrity-building culture as well.
Monday, December 13, 2010 11:12 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer Whether you like Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff's constant efforts to advance the cloud computing discussion or dismiss them as blustery salesmanship, there's no arguing that Benioff has become a huge force in the IT world.
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