Enterprises of every size are moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud. Maintaining operational awareness is difficult enough within a single cloud…
Read MoreOne of the more enlightening sessions at this year’s Money 20/20 payment industry conference (9,000+ attendees) featured new findings from a Foundation Capital…
Read MoreI was sorting through some browser tabs that had been open for a couple of weeks on my laptop and rediscovered a…
Read Morean open Gigaom Research brief taxa: Next Work, Triangulation, Conversus, Work Chat, Futures I gave a talk the other day for the…
Read MoreThe accelerating flight of executive talent makes clear that Marissa Mayer is failing at Yahoo. It’s no longer a turnaround, it’s a…
Read MoreRecent research by Texas A&M researcher Markus Fitza debunks the glib conventional notion of the CEO as the prime mover of a company’s…
Read MoreA few recent events for Dropbox that suggest the company is headed for a difficult transition. In today’s Wall Street Journal, a…
Read MoreLast week, I wrote about the commoditization of the enterprise file sharing market and how pure play vendors are being forced to…
Read MoreIt’s hardly news that enterprise file sharing technology has become commoditized. That process has very visibly played out in the tech media…
Read MoreIn what is the high water market of pure tech acquisitions, Dell has announced that it will be buying EMC in a…
Read MoreMixed news from Twitter: Jack Dorsey has been named the company’s permanent CEO after three months as interim head, but the company…
Read MoreIn the good old days, when most of today’s most senior executives got their business education, only three ways to acquire sustainable…
Read MoreBack in August, Larry Hawes wrote a post entitled ‘Real-time Messaging in the Enterprise: Here We Go Again‘, and I suggested to him at…
Read MoreIn some ways the newspaper business is just another business. However, printing the news is unlike growing broccoli, building skyscrapers, or making…
Read MoreThe Internet of Things (IoT) has been a hot topic for several months now, and there are new stories about it in…
Read MoreThe argument Too many people are talking about digital as if the binary world began yesterday. Are companies really in the grip…
Read MoreIt’s the eve of Salesforce.com’s annual Dreamforce event, and I have the company and its customers on my mind. I’ll be attending…
Read MoreI was recently invited to address a conference on planning in elite sports – as part of the 2024 Olympics preparation. It…
Read MoreFarhad Manjoo points out that Apple seems to be the counterexample to the disruption mantra that has become foundational to the business…
Read MoreThere is something distinctly ironic about how enterprise social business tools have actually become a disruption agent outside of the enterprise. Those…
Read MoreWe are not only missing out on the company bowling league and barbeques: we are diminishing our capacity to make behavioral —…
Read MoreI saw that Little Bird’s Marshall Kirkpatrick has identified 20 thought leaders in the future of work domain (sign up for the…
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced the acquisition of Volometrix, an innovative quantified work technology company. The company can tap into the work graph information latent…
Read MoreIn my book Shift, I said open source movements like Bitcoin are the wildcards that keep the economy moving in strange and…
Read MoreI’ve spent the past 25 years exploring how economies transition. A big chunk of the explanation will always be the restless human…
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