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.
Recipe for American success: One part self sufficiency, one part team work. And mix?
A colleague/friend of mine asked me a very interesting question via email today...and it really struck a cord. "Which attribute is more important or favorable in American culture – being self sufficient or promoting team work?"Full disclosure. My friend is not...
The Big Deal on Big Data (Part 2)
The Changing Face of Data The challenge is not only the amount that data is growing but the type of data is changing as well. Traditionally, computer information systems are really good and collecting, processing and analyzing structured data – information that can be...
Paradox of being cool
Quite an interesting article about the iPhone and its effect on cell phone providers. Not only have the big cell phone carriers been required to spend billions to support smart phone data hogs, particularly the iPhone (I admit, I'm probably one of those hogs),...
Why is Siri broken all the time?
"I'm really sorry about this, but I can't take any requests right now. Please try again in a little while." That quote seems to be what Siri says about half the time to me now. Siri is quite unreliable and seems to have become more so over time. Is anyone else having...
Who would have thought
From one of my co-workers, Dan Weaver, comes a story of a homeless person, an iPhone and a credit card. Who would have thought!
Experipro Business Summit
Last night, I had the chance to speak at the Experipro Business Summit. They put it on in an amazing video production studio, AMS, in Dallas (who knew that Dallas had a place like that.) There were some great speakers including Tim Houline, the CEO of Working...
Times are a Changin’
I’ve joked about it for years, but yesterday it finally happened. I was walking in downtown Seattle when I was stopped by a man selling “Real Change.” Real Change is a newspaper printed by a non-profit organization and then sold by Seattle homeless to help them earn...
The Big Deal on Big Data (Part 1)
In today’s world, making effective decisions depends on having good information at your fingertips. But as our ability to collect and analyze vasts amount of this information has grown over the past decate, our capability to effectively use this information hasn’t...
“Pardon me, but do you like that Steve Jobs iBook?”
Prior to the holiday season, my work travel schedule took me to quite a few airports. And in every Hudson news or other airport newsstand, I notice the Steve Jobs biography. I heard some great things about it, but every time I considered it, all I could think of was...
Love Kinect-ion
Looks like the Microsoft Kinect (confirmed in the Guinness World Records as being the fastest selling consumer electronics device) will be built into the future slated Windows 8 notebooks. Along with Siri, the Kinect is a change in the way we interact and...
The 6 Million Dollar Men
There's a lot of great stuff out there on www.ted.comAnd if you don't already know: "TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since...
4 Cores and 7 Gigs ago…
Whereas the title of the this blog is a little misleading, it's both a nod to my Junior High history class and having to learn the Gettysburg address, and a "celebration" of sorts because I'm finally running a virtual machine on an Intel based Mac the way it...
Another great Goliath example: Running meetings at Google
Thank you, Sarah, for sending this!Here's a glimpse into Google's "rules" around meetings. At first glance these seem obvious, but take a hard look at your company's meetings and ask yourself how many would pass... I'll admit not all of ours would!Every meeting...
Killer Bread
I've been a fan of Dave's Killer Bread ever since I first saw it in the grocery store several years back. I'm a sucker for good/interesting packaging/branding and I am all for natural and healthy food options. After buying and consuming my first loaf I was hooked; why...
New Years Resolutions
Do you believe in New Years resolutions? What are yours this year?I love hearing the responses to these questions. In my oh-so-scientific studies over the years, I'd say most people refuse to make any NY resolutions because of the also-so-scientific-statistical data...
What Should We Learn from Steve Jobs?
So the toils of my EMBA program are over for a brief respite and I finally have time to one of my passions which is reading for pleasure. I chose on this occasion to pick up Steve Jobs’ biography. First off, many kudos to Walter Isaacson for an absolutely riveting...
Really? These are the top places for IT workers?
I just got suckered by this link - survey results for the top places IT workers want to work! I should have known better. It is just the usual suspects, the four biggest IT employers around: Microsoft, IBM, Apple and Google...I'm not sure how they conducted this...
Keep your friends close and your emoticons closer <:->
I was reading an article about brewing tensions between two tech titans in the LA times last weekend , and I was captivated as I tried to determine what the heck Samsung thought they would get out of suing Apple over emoticons. Then I read an additional Reuters...
Streaming Apathy
A few months ago, I would have been truly excited about this news about the new Netflix iPad app. But now I'm apathetic to the news about a new iPad "toy" that my wife sent me via email. And this from a person who went on and on about how great Netflix was...
Alignment is a Dirty Word
Many of you have heard this rant before, especially if you have read the book! Focusing on alignment is a dangerous game for an IT organization to play... and it was the #1 concern of CIOs for all of the 1990s and well beyond. Someone just forwarded me this blog by a...
Seasoned IT departments don’t fear the reaper
I was reading this article today on cio.com: “Gartner Predictions for 2012: More Cloud, Consumerization, Loss of IT Control” (found here: http://www.cio.com/article/695777/Gartner_Predictions_for_2012_More_Cloud_Consumerization_Loss_of_IT_Control) Which led me to this...