Technology
You’re Either a Technology Business or You’re Out of Business
This article is brought to you by Linda and Braden Kelley. Collectively, we have over 30 years of experience working with large, global multi-disciplinary enterprises. We write this with care and passion as we want your enterprises to succeed. We would love to hear your thoughts. Even in 2014, there are business sectors who feel…
Read MoreBR: Made In America and Making the Modern World
For the first time, for the following 2 books, I am not providing a Book Review (BR), rather a Book Recommendation. Reason: It is impossible to do just a book review given the amount of content. But I do feel compelled to urge my readers to review the following books. I came across Vaclav Smil…
Read MoreWhy SIRI And Not Watson?
SIRI is defined as: Siri is a voice-activated app that works with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 to allow users to take action on their iPhone by speaking. Siri can understand not just basic commands, but also the colloquialisms that are common to human speech. Siri can both speak back to the user and…
Read MoreAutomation/Digitization: Yes. Personalization: Not Quite!
I am delighted to see so many industries digitizing their operations. For example, as the International New York Times reported yesterday, the Starwood Hotels are starting to test keyless entry via smartphones for their guests. That is a great example of digitization utilizing smartphones. We will be seeing many more such examples of automation moving…
Read MoreDisrupting Corporate Ventures!
Why is it that we are NOT in awe of the corporate venture arms of multi-billion companies? Yet we remember large venture firms and what they have done! In my work with large enterprises and ProVoke, I am stunned as to how underutilized, over-protected and cautious the Corporate Venture arms of my clients are. Why…
Read MoreThe Successful One Page Business Plan!
Often there is a misconception that business plans are for entrepreneurs only! Wrong! A business plan is a way to crisply and concisely communicate one’s idea with others, especially when the idea is about an innovation, a new product/service or a new concept. Over the years, whether I am sitting in a large company meeting…
Read MoreCIOs, Innovation and the Democratization of IT
Sadly I missed this Enterprise 2.0 conference but wanted to share some thoughts with you. Here is a good quick summary from Information week. This was a gathering of many CIO and IT leaders. Clearly top on everybody’s mind is how rapidly and broadly IT is evolving. Gone are the days that the CIO was…
Read More2013 Technology Trends: What Do You Think?
Here are Gartner’s picks for the top technology trends for 2013, which among the regular set of suspects, brings in enterprise App-store and strong emphasis on Big Data. To be honest, I have yet not formulated my 2013 list yet and wanted to get your thoughts. I hope in 2013 we are rising above analytics…
Read MoreIntroducing ProVoke LiVe NetWork, PLN!
I am thrilled to report that we are in the Beta test phase of ProVoke LiVe NetWork, PLN. We live in a highly global and collaborative world. My work with ProVoke and Disruptive Innovation has me engaged with many global teams. At all times I need to communicate with these teams in parallel as we…
Read MoreGotta Shake Things Up at Tech Conferences!
Like you, I have attended a whole bunch of tech conferences this year. I am jazzed that so many organizations want to put together conferences around Hadoop, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Digital Media and much more. Via conference such at TechCrunch, Strata, and many other venues we have reached global audiences with dialogs about technology…
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