The IT Industry’s Shame
The last few months have been joyful. I have had a chance to mingle with a number of innovators as I wrote my book. Many are focused on the Grand Challenges the word faces – environmental, engineering etc. It is…
Steve Jobs: Make room
Something remarkable happened in the Valley last week. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Larry Page of Google, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (KP), and executives from Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx and elsewhere attended a launch party. All kinds of media descended. And it had nothing to do with an Apple product. In [...]
Apple’s truly lasting influence
Jeffrey Word of SAP and I were discussing the other day pricing for ebooks on the iPad and Kindle. He is an author of many books and has been extremely valuable a coach as I go through my own publishing experience. And it occurred to me while we give Apple credit – or criticism – [...]
Setback for the social customer
Paul Greenberg is on a crusade to educate the corporate world about the social customer. His new book, his seminar series are all aimed at that. As he is quoted in my upcoming book “Social CRM measures not just Customer…
Amazon, Macmillan and me
In the on-going battle between published content and distribution that Larry Dignan summarizes well at ZDNet I should, as a blogger and the fact that I have a book coming out, be unabashedly on the side of content. But I find myself conflicted. Conflicted because one of the people I interviewed for the book sent [...]
Where are the Ten Commandments for Technology?
As I finish up on book on innovation, one of the most intriguing chapters I wrote was about the growing ethical issues being spawned by innovation and technology. Food/biofuel tradeoffs, God powers with nanotechnology and genome technologies, the thin line between real and virtual worlds and on and on. Complex issues, few simple answers. Yet, [...]
HP, the Disruptor?
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 [...]
Dont take a Coke can into Pepsi HQ
I wrote earlier “if you are Steve Ballmer’s (Microsoft) kids you dare not use Google or try an iPod. I imagine his salesfolks dare not use salesforce.com…” Zoli writes about Don Dodge moving from Microsoft to Google: Thanks Microsoft Outlook,…
A PR nightmare
In his swearing in speech, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan Preet Bharara, now in the middle of the Galleon hedge fund insider trading scandal laid out his principles: “The willingness to resign over principle; the courage to resist even…
A thousand curses on Google!
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 14, 2010
So, I have roughly a week to go through the copy-edit of my book and slip in any updates since I filed the manuscript in January. And I find I have to mention Google’s broadband plans in the chapter on…
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