Transparency Will Save Us
Despite all that is wrong with today’s society – and some frightening historical parallels – I remain fundamentally an optimist.
Onward
2011. It could be the year life ends after “The Rock” impacts Portugal, or the year that IPv4 IP addresses are exhausted. Or it could be the year that Social CRM goes mainstream. Maybe even the year that Blue Waters – the closest living relative to SkyNet – comes online. In reality, it is another [...]
Looking for Investment Management Tools
I have been looking for any personal finance software that can help keep track of my investments. So far, I have come up with zip. Maybe someone else has had a better experience. Here is what I am looking for: Syncs transactions with brokerage accounts. Allows looking at performance on a consolidated basis across accounts. [...]
Helping Managers Visualize the Right Decisions
Recently, our family took a vacation and benefited from all kinds of information available for spur of the moment decisions from my iPad. The silly thing was constantly out and being consulted for something, and it made a real difference to our trip. I have no doubt that Graphic for Visualizing Your Competition (HT to [...]
The CRM Watchlist Part II: The Usual Suspects
I have to imagine that Kevin Spacey is getting sick and tired of the use of his movie’s title for pretty much everything related to a regular event. So this “Sigh” is for him. Sigh. In the first CRM Watchlist 2011 (long) post I covered the Big 4. In round 2, we’re going to look [...]
What’s With These Microsoft Patent Trolls?
Paul Allen and Nathan Myhrvold: what’s with these ex-Microsofties now turned Patent Trolls? Was there something in the water at Microsoft or what? The Trolls that Stole Innovation’s Christmas I’m reading lately about Allen’s efforts to bring to bear a portfolio of patents filed by Interval Research, a company he founded once upon a time. Myhrvold [...]
