Unless they have changed their ways, even the best run Board of Directors are most likely not properly equipped to provide the needed advice and guidance to their company’s leadership team in such tumultuous times as we are competing in today.
For the longest time, many in the technology community were fixated on processor speed and number of transistors on a chip along with the ever declining cost to deliver that capability. This has held up as a critical yardstick to measure our progress and technology prowess. If this was the only metric, we have been […]
While no one knows with any certainty when this episode of COVID-19 will abate and what the world will look like when we get to the other side, I do feel confident in writing that whatever your day to day environment was and your experiences were, they will forever be changed. Just looking through the lens of work […]
In just over a month, Competing in the Connecting World has been read by current and future leaders all over the world. The publisher has indicated sales in the United States and Canada as well as Germany, the UK, Australia, India, Japan, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina. We are certainly humbled by the support and […]
As connectivity changes business and market paradigms new and established firms need to innovate and navigate their businesses through this new market force. This innovation can be an intra-firm activity fueled by R&D and employee ideation or it can become an inter-firm activity where cross-industry consortiums and venture capital are used to navigate this new […]
As products are becoming more connected there’s a tendency for firms to narrowly focus their product architectures and connected strategies on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Yet, firms are missing a key view: the customer experience. Our position is that M2M isn’t about machine-to-machine communications – it’s about redefining a business, an industry, and a customer’s way […]
For a few years we have been enamored with the concept that innovation is no longer taking place within traditional networks. It has shifted beneath our feet to “The Fringe”. “This fringe” is at the edge of our businesses where our customers live. No matter if B2B or B2C customers mash-up services and products into […]
Fitting new things into life isn’t always easy. Last week my eldest son had a birthday, and like many holidays at our home: after the dust settles, the cake consumed, and the balloons drift from their high perch to the floor, it was time to try to find room for the new exciting fun gifts […]
