Are You Ready for Web 40.0?
The Web will eventually “disappear” in the same way that electricity, roads and transportation have disappeared, only attracting attention when they fail or need repair. By 2030, just 15 years from...
View ArticleHow to Manage IT Really, Really Badly
A couple of years ago I got into a car with the CEO of a large company. As I entered the car, he moved an object off the seat and under his ass. I asked him, “what’s under your ass?” He looked at me...
View ArticleStupid Business Travel (Saved, A Little, By Uber)
I got up at 7 AM to get a 10 AM Amtrak train that traveled from the suburbs of Philadelphia to the city of Philadelphia and then to New York City. I took a black – Uber – car from my house to the...
View ArticleWhy Innovation Almost Always Fails
I spent some time at DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) early in my career (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA). Everyone likes to talk about DARPA’s approach to innovation (see, for...
View ArticleUnstructured Data: The Other Side of Analytics
Everyone is obsessed with “analytics.” I cannot keep up with what the technology pundits and consultants are telling me about analytics, no matter how hard I try. (I just Googled “big data analytics”...
View ArticleNever, Ever Buy Technology (Or Anything Else, for That Matter)
Do you own a house? If you look at the hard data around home ownership, you will cry. General upkeep, repairs, taxes, utilities, snow removal, lawn care and even your own time all figure into the...
View ArticleThe Digital Doctor Will See You Now
Let’s start with the conclusion: 1. Within a few years much of what doctors, lawyers, engineers, computer scientists and professors – among many other professionals – do will be extended and even...
View ArticleWhat's Your Technology Company Worth? Strategic Versus Operational Valuation
Everyone fights about valuation: investors, entrepreneurs, wives, husbands, kids, bankers, lawyers, ex-wives, nerds, ex-husbands – everyone. Part of the reason why there are so many fights about...
View ArticleDigital Bullets for Zombie Business Models
Old revenue streams are hard to kill. They live and live and live, and sometimes, like Zombies, have to be killed over and over again. The same is true of the organizational structures that support...
View ArticleDeath & Technology: IT Only Works If IT's There
A train derails in Philadelphia. A plane crashes into the Alps. Citizens are killed in cities. What do these events have in common? All of them could have been prevented with digital technology. We...
View ArticleSnapchat, Tesla, Uber & Demogagement Moving Targets - Reverse Engineering...
Bill O’Reilly has a problem. (More on that in a moment.) Note that – today, at least – Snapchat is “young” and Facebook is “old.” Only rich people drive Tesla Roadsters. Uber will become everyone’s...
View ArticleHealthcare, Entertainment & War: Picking the Right Digital Stocks
Where should you put your money? Let’s stipulate that digital technology will continue to generate change and wealth. If that’s true – and it is – then where should we move our chips? There are...
View ArticleApple Should Conglomerate: Investments AAPL Should Make (Before It's Too Late)
Some of the discussions about Apple’s strategy focus on Apple’s becoming a technology conglomerate. It’s been suggested that Apple buy Tesla, that Apple buy Dropbox, Uber and Square, and that Apple...
View ArticleIBM's Makeover: A Buy-Or-Die Strategy for Big Blue
There’s lots of talk about what’s wrong with IBM, lots of opinions about how the strategies of the old CEOs undermined today’s IBM, and just as many about the company’s lack of vision. Unless you’re in...
View ArticleAshley Madison And Predictive Analytics: The Bad, the Worse And the Dangerous
We’re all aware of what happened with the “data” stored at Ashley Madison, data that was supposed to be private and protected. This of course is not the first – nor will it be the last – data breach....
View ArticleYour Business Technology Team is Obsolete: Two Tests to Determine How Bad It...
The chances are good that your business technology team is obsolete. Staying current is a challenge for even the most forward-thinking business technology professionals and companies. Complicating...
View ArticleDigital Transformation: Sometimes | Maybe | Absolutely
Everyone wants to transform their businesses, and everyone who’s alive knows that transformation now depends on digital technology. Everywhere I go I hear about “amazing,” “fabulous,” “terrific” and...
View ArticleWhat C-Suite Executives Need To Know About Digital Strategy and Emerging...
I sit in the C-Suite. (Not now, but I used to.) I am not the CIO or CTO. (Not now, but I used to be.) I am a retailer (for my purposes here). I was just asked three questions at an investor conference:...
View ArticleAmazon & Walmart Should Marry (But They Better Start Planning Soon)
It’s inevitable. It always was. Like two good friends that finally realize they’re actually in love? No. This marriage will be arranged for mutual financial benefit – and world domination. Walmart’s...
View ArticleTop Ten CIO Concerns For 2016 - IT's Déjà Vu All Over Again
The Society for Information Management (SIM), God bless their souls, recently announced the results of their annual survey of what Chief Information Officers (CIOs) believe are the most important...
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