Monday, May 30, 2011

Early Indications May 2011: Firms, Ecosystems, and Collaboratives

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The Internet and mobility are changing how resources can be organized to do work. The limited liability joint stock corporation remains use...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 2011 Early Indications: The iPad as a Teaching Tool

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Last year I was given an iPad by my university with which to experiment. Here are my impressions at the end of the school year. As a media ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 2011 Early Indications: Reinventing Retail

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Despite its unquestioned status as an innovator and a leader in customer experience, Amazon isn't typically credited with business model...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Early Indications February 2011: An Earthquake Every Year

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It's become a commonplace to state that we live in extraordinary times. Rather than merely assert this, however, it doesn't take a ...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Early Indications January 2011: The Downsizing of the State?

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Data points from all over converge to announce a time of reckoning: -According to the Pew Center on the States, the 50 states collectively h...
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...