Browsers for Navigation, Apps for Manipulation, Social Media for Relationships
Some say the online world is headed for apps because people prefer apps. Some say they hate apps and prefer everything to be as browser-like as possible, even if that means a return to 3270 green-screen UI. I got to thinking about this issue as part of my response to Bill Lucchini’s rebuttal of my [...]
AbleAdvisory: Living With Complexity (book)
Here’s a thumbs up to Don Norman’s (for a discussion on complex v. simple software applications and bootstrapping click thru to Joel Spolsky’s discussion on simplicity) New book, Living with Complexity. Business Week has named named him one of the…
Entrepreneurship-Driven Innovation as a Growth Driver for Greece’s Economy
A couple of days ago I delivered a speech during the inauguration ceremonies of the Alexandrian Innovation Zone, in Thessaloniki, Greece. This zone is supposed to become the beginning of a Silicon Valley-like area in Greece and provide a venue for economic growth in the country. I thought that it would be worthwhile to post [...]
Incenting Behavior: Spend Mgmt. Learning From an Automotive Purchase and IRS Section 179 (Part 1)
In the past few weeks, my wife and I finally decided it was time to buy a car for our business. The old minivan, which has had double family and work duty for four years, will continue to menace the streets of Chicago as it tears …
The iPad and the Enterprise
(photo cc attrib. pntphoto thanks!) I have seen several keynotes from software executives lately. I recollect that all of them had iPads in them. Seasoned software executives have been getting positively giddy about the iPad. It has given Steve Jobs a sales force that he didn’t know he had. It seems without really planning for [...]
