Disruption
Are we not all ‘entrepreneurs’ in a big company? Why not actively Disrupt and Innovate?
It is extremely energizing meeting incredibly competent people at the various companies that I visit. Fabulously talented, educated engineers, designers and other company employees at various ranks who ‘really’ know their business. They know how the products are build, their use applications and marketability. In addition they are uniquely connected with the customers and understand…
Read MoreThe Cloud Part Two: Disruption in motion in enterprise computing
As I said in my last post, Cloud computing has made operating systems, databases and applications more available, making business more democratic. A few concepts have been game changers in this disruption, and I’d like to touch on them. Note: I’m only mentioning a few key companies here, because this post can’t be 5,000 words…
Read MoreCloud Computing: The Democratization of IT, Part One
Cloud computing has enabled one of the most significant disruptions of the computing world in history. But to understand its magnitude, let’s look at the pre-Cloud world. Step into my time machine (ripply, wavy visual effects at no extra charge)… Welcome to the pre-Cloud world! Here, storage and computing power can only be had by…
Read MoreYou’re never too small to disrupt
The ability to bring about positive disruption within a business has nothing to do with your place on the org chart. Try telling that to most employees. One comment that comes up every time I speak is that the audience participants feel powerless in their large corporations. Generally I am speaking with MBA students or…
Read MoreThe Culture of Disruption
The central thesis of my book , Provoke, revolves around the fact that we need to disrupt in order to innovate. To do so, all the members of the Culture of Disruption (CofD) are critical stake holders and influence the journey of disruption to innovation. The members of the Culture of Disruption ecosystem include company…
Read MoreAnyone Can Disrupt
If you’re one player in a big company, you can’t be a disruptor, right? Wrong. You were hired because you are smart, educated and innovative. You have a responsibility to disrupt the way things are done when it will serve your company and its stakeholders. In my book, Provoke, I write that employees are critical players…
Read MoreInnovate or Die
Watching the drop in Eastman Kodak’s stock value is like witnessing death by water torture. The stock has lost 80 percent of its value in 2011 and is hanging on at less than a dollar a share. It’s sad. Kodak was the leader in photographic technology. Thirty years ago, it had an unmatched presence and…
Read MoreVive le Disruptive Consumer!
How better to illustrate the point of the power of the customer as part of the Culture of Disruption than the news that an activist investor group has approached the board of directors of Research In Motion (RIM), makers of the BlackBerry (and masters of the “see no iPhone, hear no iPhone, speak no iPhone” school of management) to propose innovations to keep the company competitive?
Read MoreLet’s put the “Venture” back in Venture Capitolist!
Venture capitalists, angel investors, and other seekers of opportunity are why we have a healthy culture of investing in innovation and embracing disruption. About 25 years ago, sitting at the San Jose airport, I met a man who turned out to be one of Silicon Valley’s pioneer VCs: Bill Draper. I was impressed with Bill,…
Read MoreDisrupt—Innovate—Lead…
It is with great pleasure that today we launch the Linda Bernardi website and blog. I look forward to connecting and communicating with you regarding technology, strategy, investment, leadership and more… In building this site, my collaborators and I came up with a tagline that…
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