IT is Dead! Long Live TC!
“TC?” Yes, TC as in Technology Creativity. Let me explain: for numerous years, we’ve seen IT in the enterprise making the journey from being an art, to a well-understood science (mastered by few),...
View ArticleI Have a Dream of a Smarter Type of Mobility
Obviously, this is a big week in mobility with Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona. We’ll likely see a slew of new devices announced, and it’s not a stretch to guess that there will be a...
View ArticleMy 3 Tips for Mastering the “Superpower”
Code.org, a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education, recently did a high-profile short film (see below) with digital heroes like Gates, Zuckerberg and Dorsey talking...
View ArticleSix Anti-patterns to Avoid for Success with Big Data
In a recent, independent global survey, 73 percent of the respondents said that their company has leveraged Big Data to increase revenue. Given that it has the potential of being a strategic...
View ArticleTest Your IQ (Innovation Quotient)
I was recently asked by one of my customers to recommend a few of my favorite Innovation-related articles, resources and examples. So I decided to share a few of these with you in the form of an “IQ...
View Article6 Traits of Successful Leaders in the Digital Business
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned the Digital Business and how the really successful organizations are the ones that seem to have “a digital mindset,” an instinct for how to creatively use...
View ArticleTweetChat on May 2 – How Consumer Technologies are Impacting the Way We Work
I’m excited to co-host Avanade’s first-ever TweetChat next Thursday, May 2, at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET. We’ll be chatting with technology analyst Maribel Lopez (@MaribelLopez) and industry leaders about how...
View ArticleThe Three Frontiers of Social Collaboration
It seems to me that today’s organizations are demanding more and more from their employees, who are also increasingly becoming information workers. They consume increasing amounts of information and...
View ArticleCan Technology Change Lives for the Better? (Part 1)
Can technology change lives for the better? Or is it “all about the money?” Is IT used to positively influence our society? Or is its role primarily to help businesses increase revenue and lower...
View ArticleWhat Can We Learn from Nova Scotia Fishermen?
I recently came across a fascinating story about how the fishermen of Nova Scotia had historically developed a way of working, which has interesting parallels to innovation in large organizations. For...
View ArticleCan Technology and Open Innovation Change Lives for the Better? (Part 2)
I’m a firm believer in the power of technology and the importance for us, as an industry, to help harness open innovation to build a better society. There are many ways that this can happen. On one end...
View ArticleJump or Fall! Two Tips to Become a Successful Digital Business
We’re at a rare inflection point in time when I would argue that “the technology stars are realigning” to give established businesses a very real chance to jump on their next-level growth trajectory...
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