Thoughts
Ideas that transform people, businesses, and industries
Deeply rooted in our organizational ethos is the celebration of authentic and unapologetic “thought.” We believe each member of our team brings with them a unique view of themselves, our clients, and of the world we live in. We make a point to not only articulate our individual experiences, senses, emotions, and actions internally, but to share them with you here.
Curiosity Geek Out
Does anyone else geek out when they see pictures like this? Apparently one of my colleagues does!
Curiosity on Mars
After countless tests, including: drive tests, arm movement tests, thermal vacuum chamber tests, centrifuge tests, drop tests, pull tests, load tests, stress tests, shorting test (intentionally shorting the vehicles electronics), 1,000’s of hours of software testing,...
Perspective is everything
I recently watched and immensely enjoyed this video of a TED talk delivered by Rory Sutherland in December of 2011 entitled, “Perspective is everything” (which is where I stole the title of this blog from):...
Mayer’s Lemonade
Now that Marissa Mayer is becoming the next CEO of Yahoo, it made me wonder if the publicity this move will generate is BIGGER than the actual ability of Yahoo to survive in the Web 2.0 world. i.e. does the hoopla outweigh the substance? Yahoo appears to be floating...
Here’s a rant about a mean guy on vrbo.com
Every once in a while, once, maybe twice a year, I give myself the leeway to rant about something totally unrelated to IT strategy on this blog. So here we go!! Maybe I'll make some loose link to this false sense of trust we get from feeling connected to people...
Do you BYOD?
BYOD or Bring Your Own Device (to work) is one of those widely discussed ideas that you can't avoid hearing about even if you tried. However, with that said I'll start off with a quick explanation in case you aren't familiar with BYOD: "Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)...
I love my Roomba
Recently, the wonderful lady who has been cleaning my house for years decided she needed to cut back to every other week. Disaster. I decided it was time to experiment with a Roomba. I'd had an earlier model for the garage that worked well enough but I found that it...
Making room for the contributions of introverts
Here's an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education related to introversion vs. extraversion in academia that may have some lessons we can apply in the corporate world. This has been a hot topic lately with Susan Cain and others talking about how...
It took a nest to (get off the snide) AND retire a dinosaur
It's been about 7 weeks since I wrote my last blog. I could blame it on travel (both work and personal), work demands, or even being lazy. But the truth is that it's probably somewhere in between...AND I needed to find a topic that sparked some creativity....
Look ma’ no hands!
When I was a kid I always imagined in the future there would be a much more intricate mass transportation system than what I grew up with. In my mind I imagined the future state of our roadways to be more like those in the movie “Minority Report;” Long stretches...
The end of enterprise architecture
There is a common practice in most of the IT organizations we visit. Everyone calls it something different: "build once, use multiple times" or "Service Oriented Architecture" or any of a variety of other names. The general idea is that if we can figure out how to...
Upcoming speaking engagement …
Here's our next speaking engagement on our book, Reboot ... and this one is in Denver! Hope you can make it.
Will Project Glass pass?
Google, as I’m sure you’ve heard by now, released some preliminary advertising on the concept for their new eye-wear technology named Project Glass and if you haven’t heard by now then you can check out the augmented reality specs here:...
Finally, some answers: How to avoid feeling overwhelmed and burnt out
Another blog on productivity and the dangers of multi-tasking? YES! I just read this blog on HBR.org... "The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time" and I want to share it with you.What I love about this is the practical advice here. It is so good, I don't even want...
Some funnies for Friday…
For those of you still working today, hopefully there are a couple new chuckles in here to get you ready for the weekend. Here we go, "life explained by graphs":
Finally Finished: The Steve Jobs Biography
I just got back from vacation, where I finally finished the Steve Jobs biography. WOW. Since so many of you read it and recommended it to me, I had to at least write a quick blurb now that I finished it.I'm glad that so many people told me I had to read it, because...
46% of US adults have a smart phone
Source: Engadget
Reboot picked up by MBA program
Our little book was just picked up by an MBA program at the University of Toronto! Have I mentioned that I've always loved Canadians? 🙂
Dollar coins and living in the past
Since my smoke alarm decided to warn me that it is running out of batteries at about 5 am, I've been up for a while this morning. And I just heard a fascinating little story on KERA about a bill in congress cosponsored by Democrat Harkin and Republican McCain that...
Whole Foods’ tech play might lure me back as a customer
I've done some IT strategy work for the retail groceries in the past, so I've been obsessed by all these articles out in the last couple days about a new smart cart that Whole Foods is piloting. I'm excited as a customer and intrigued as an IT strategist. And I'd pay...
Assistive Technology
We all use technology to improve our everyday lives. From using videoconferencing and virtual collaboration tools in order to work more closely and efficiently with clients and coworkers to using mobile apps like RedLaser to take pictures of product barcodes and...