Without getting academic about it, Vinnie Mirchandani breaks up technology markets into old and new, which mean, nutshelled, traditional and innovation-driven revenue, respectively. I’ve often looked at it the same way; in fact, one of the reasons I’m linking to Vinnie’s post is because he articulated my thoughts better than I could. Here it is
Read More...Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well. It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor. Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process. While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to
Read More...“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?” — Steve Jobs to then-Pepsi executive John Sculley to lure him to come work for Apple. Sculley mentions this exchange in the documentary Bloomberg Game Changers: Steve Jobs. The series
Read More...Long before joining MIPRO I used to write software documentation. As part of the process, we had some pretty spirited debates about our assumptions for these training guides. Do you assume the users know anything about accounting? Do you assume they know the industry? Do you assume they are college educated? Do you assume anything?
Read More...From Peter Bregman over at Harvard Business Review Blogs comes a story with a lesson everyone – literally, everyone – can use for the first time or, if you’re really lucky, be reminded of: Nothing we said seemed to have any impact on her. Nothing changed her expressionless stare. Nothing helped. Then her grandmother Mimi
Read More...A popular thing to do today – especially as a proof point in a debate — is to quote famous figures when it’s become apparent that something they said a century (or more) ago has come true. This sort of thing creates an image of a person as a seer, a genius, as never being
Read More...I had a debate with one of my partners recently. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been going through a branding/messaging exercise to refresh how we tell the market what we do, what we’re good at, our core domains, etc. What a daunting task! It is so hard to put into words or create a
Read More...In today tech-heavy, socially-enabled world, each headline seems to cloud the line that defines an invasion of privacy. There are so many cases today where technology blurs our view of what is public information and what should be private.
Read More...The rules are shopping are changing. Are you taking advantage of it? If you're a business, are you reacting to it intelligently?
Read More...Smart and cogent – if not experimental – analysis by Carey King at the University of Texas at Austin. King’s data shows that Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is a metric that illustrates energy as a limiting factor on economic growth: In economic terms, the quality of the nation’s energy supply is referred to as
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