Blurring the Lines
Article first published as Blurring the Lines on Technorati. Generally speaking, the quality and power of technology at home today has at least pulled even with technology at work—if not surpassed it....
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Netflix and the Age of the Platform
Article first published as Explaining the Troubles of Netflix in the Age of the Platform on Technorati. With the possible exceptions of Yahoo! and HP, no company has struggled more in the last few...
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The Disintermediation Continues
Kindlegraph allows authors to “sign” digital copies of their books. I added my four. It’s astonishing to me how the eBook is evolving before our very eyes. Who knows what will be next? I’m still a...
View Article10 Technology and Business Trends for 2012
Originally published on The Huffington Post. Click here for the original article. It’s that time again — time to look around the corner and make predictions about the new year. Here are 10 technology...
View ArticleInc. Article #8: Platforms and Scale
My eighth Inc. Magazine article is now live. Here’s an excerpt: This is why leadership is so important in the Age of the Platform. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and others possess the power to do...
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The Inevitability of Negativity
Creative types like me put ourselves out there. We sit down with a blank screen and canvas and try to do our best work. Are we successful? It depends on whom you ask. With the release of a new album...
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The Social Data Police
I awoke bright and early Wednesday morning and engaged in my regular routine. After firing up the coffee maker, I started checking email, Twitter, Google Analytics, and Amazon. Why Amazon? I...
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Acceptable Downtime: A Relic of a Bygone Era?
Last Christmas Eve, many Netflix users planned to bundle up with their loved ones and watch a bunch of streaming movies. Unfortunately, plans went awry. Netflix runs its streaming service on Amazon...
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Uncertainty vs. Risk
“Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” —Frederick Wilcox As a long-time gambler addict, I’ve developed a bit of a fascination with risk over my years....
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11 Big Data Myths
Originally published on the Amazon tech store site. With so much hype these days, it’s not hard to understand why so many people are confused about Big Data. After all, two years ago, virtually no one...
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Why You Shouldn’t Care About Negative Reviews
I talk to many people about writing books. Often I’m at a mixer when I strike up a conversation with someone. These days, I answer the “What do you do?” question with one word and two syllables:...
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Tech Cocktail Week Interview
On June 13th, I gave the keynote at TechCocktail Week in Las Vegas, NV. Afterward, I gave a five-minute interview in which I talk a bit about writing, my books, whether it’s better to work for a small...
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Amazon and the Importance of a Data Culture
Having watched and participated in the dot-com boom, I have known a great deal about Amazon for a long time. (Ditto for eBay, Google, and the like.) Today, though, I consider myself vastly more...
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Big Data in the Enterprise: Mostly Lip Service
These days, it’s not hard to find surveys, polls, and reports saying that “most” organizations are embracing Big Data. For instance, as Matt Asay onReadWriteWeb writes: According to a recent Gartner...
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Big Bang Disruption by Downes and Nunes
I try to stay on top of important business books, especially those with emphases on technology, innovation, and disruption. To this end, I recently read Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of...
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Big Data, Risk, and The Matrix
I’ve written before on this site about the inherent uncertainty around Big Data. In short, the same ROI calculations that justified many 1990s and 2000s ERP, CRM, and BI purchases are unlikely to work...
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The Future of Retail and the Cloud Wars
Retail is undergoing a massive transformation as we speak. Thanks to the rise of smartphones and apps, constantly connected customers are now able to do what was once pure fantasy. Every day, millions...
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The Case for Employee Data Self-Service, Part 3
This is the third post in a three-part series. In my second post in this series, I examined two of the main benefits of employee self-service: greater speed and increased employee accountability. I...
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The Invisible Cloud
There’s no one right way to launch products and services today, a point that I make in The Age of the Platform. Consider the two vastly different approaches that two iconic companies took to achieve...
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On Lawnmowers and Data Management
The battery on my 18-month-old lawnmower recently died. Rather than buy a new battery and possibly face this dilemma again next year, I decided to go electric. After doing some market research, I knew...
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