Even though the most likely outcome for a successful technology company is via an acquisition, I have never liked the idea of planning for it. Plans and actions then often go away from what will help our customers and help us succeed in the market to what would ABC Inc. like to see in an…
Category: Technology
Why is change so hard?
Why is it so hard to change, even when the evidence for doing so is overwhelming? This article from Scientific American, answers the question Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes, yet there are only 24 hours in a day? It is interesting, if not surprising, that these measurements…
Web 2.0 hits saturation
Buzzmeister’s beware! The Valleywag buzzmeter shows Web 2.0 hits saturation. That’s so 2006. How should a capital hungry business owner create excitement among the technology captains of capital?
Web 2.0 – A Bubble, Hype, for the Lucky Few?
Tom Evslin’s post Web 2.0 – Greater Initial Investments Required suggests that early Web 2.0 companies seized the advantage of low cost technical infrastructure and low cost marketing to gain cost advantages. These companies were able to get big cheaper and faster than the first generation internet companies. While he agrees with Fred Willson that…
Managing next-generation IT infrastructure
The McKinsey Quarterly In recent years, companies have worked hard to reduce the cost of the IT infrastructure—the data centers, networks, databases, and software tools that support businesses. These efforts to consolidate, standardize, and streamline assets, technologies, and processes have delivered major savings. Yet even the most effective cost-cutting program eventually hits a wall: the…
Top Internet Trends for 2004
Rob Greenlee, Host WebTalk Radio, predicts: 1. The decline of the web browser usage on the desktop as a way to get to web content 2. The growth of Internet applications – the executable Internet 3. All things wireless 4. Digital media enters the living room 5. Professional journalistic weblogs are syndicated through RSS 6….