Friday, December 17, 2010

December 2010 Early Indications: Prediction Scorecard

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Last year, on the cusp of a decade, I looked ahead and in essence asked 24 questions. In some ways, the world did not change enough to answ...
Sunday, November 14, 2010

Review Essay: Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

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In 35 years of reading seriously and often professionally, I have never a read a book like What Technology Wants. I dog-eared at least 30 p...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Early Indications October 2010: The Analytics Moment: Getting numbers to tell stories

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Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to bring the idea to a wider public, analytics is coming closer to the mainstream...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Early Indications September 2010: The Power and Paradoxes of Usability

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Usability is among the most difficult of topics to define and analyze. At one level, it is much like the famous Supreme Court justice who no...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Early Indications August 2010: Rethinking Location and Identity

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Even though they're sometimes overlooked in relation to spectacular growth rates (50x increases in wireless data carriage), successful c...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

July 2010 Early Indications: Living with an iPad

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I'm not typically a "gadget guy," one of those folks (Ed Baig at USA Today is one of the best) who regularly evaluate new devi...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

June 2010 Early Indications II: Book Review of Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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To those of us who for a long time have tried to understand the many impacts of the Internet, Clay Shirky stands among a very small group of...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Early Indications June 2010: World Cup special on sports brand equity

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It's a familiar business school discussion.  "Let's talk about powerful brands," begins the professor.  "Who comes to...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

May 2010 Early Indications: Devising the cloud-aware organization

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As various analysts and technology executives assess the pros and cons of cloud computing, two points of consensus appear to be emerging: A)...