Business Model Disruption and Dealing with Change
A couple of recent events and some commentary around them got me thinking about the current state of business, the pressure to change and how companies respond to the need to change. Change impacts people and organizations in many different…
Connectivity Disrupting Traditional Models: Online Peer to Peer Commerce
As the world became more connected through the Internet in the 1990′s, many disruptive uses of this connectivity were tried and in some cases have grown into wildly successful businesses. One aspect of connectivity is the way it opens up…
It’s Just About the Connections!
Ever feel like, as an industry (or industry analyst), that we make everything seem as complex as possible? I guess it makes sense, the more "technical" or more complex, the more you need us or IT or tech vendors or…
The Social Enterprise: A Case For Disruptive Transformation
One of the watchwords of the 21st century, at least for the first decade, has been innovation. In a world that’s clearly changing all around us at an ever increasing rate, actively pursuing new innovation has usually seemed like the best way for companies to ward off any accumulated failures to adapt to new realities.

HP, the Disruptor?
By Vinnie Mirchandani on November 17, 2009
Why would Cisco move down into 25% mainstream server margin business when its networking business has yielded it 65%? That is the question many asked as Cisco announced its Unified Computing System in early 2009. Its marketing said it “..represents a radical simplification of traditional architectures, dramatically reducing the number of devices that must be [...]
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