Event Report: Washington Ideas Forum (#IdeasForum) Highlights America’s Current Challenges
The Disruptive Technology Perspective At The Washington Ideas Forum Influencers in politics, academia, and business converge once a year at the Washington Ideas Forum to discuss the challenges and potential solutions America faces. This event held November 14th to November 15th pulled together over 1200 attendees and was sponsored by The Atlantic in partnership with [...]
Enterprise headlines and excerpts, 15-31 March 2011
Oracle has a phenomenal quarter. Paul Allen disses Bill Gates. Patent, trademark, and IP issues galore. Salesforce.com continues cash-based acquisition spree. HP continues rolling out its new strategy. HP and Oracle continue their war. Gosling joins Google. CIOs want to reduce the number of applications they maintain. IBM turns 100. World political turmoil and aftermath [...]
3 Challenges Larry Page Faces for Google
There are 3 challenges Larry Page must overcome to fundamentally make Google a bigger, better, and more successful company that customers love and that does no evil: Lack of Customer Focus Google is all about the algorithms, but algorithms are not customer-focused. They’re off doing whatever they were made to do, and if that’s not the right [...]
Microsoft, the Walking Dead
This post @ Computerworld about Microsoft’s coming heart-attack moment prompted me to resuscitate an old post from my personal blog. We’ve long forgotten all the pain inflicting on us by Vista (really? can we ever forget?), but the Bill Gates letter revealed below is very telling – about the future of Microsoft. Image credit: Gizmodo Over [...]
