Anything They Can Do, You Can Do Better The line between becoming a pioneer and a “me-too” flop can be unclear when you’re in the weeds of development. When in doubt, ask yourself if you’d use your new product instead of the market leader’s. If the answer is yes, keep going. If it’s no, then stop and rethink.
Updated Tue May 1, 2012
What Every Company Should Take From Barnes & Noble: A Page From Their Corporate Playbook With the launch of the Nook Tablet and the announcement that it expects to generate $1.8 billion from the Nook line this year, Barnes & Noble did something that anyone who cares about technology and business should find inspiring: It became a technology company. Here’s what it did to transcend its would-be analog and fruitless future.
Updated Wed Apr 25, 2012
Stop Blabbing About Innovation And Start Actually Doing It If your business can’t innovate, it won’t survive when the startup across town that doesn’t have to answer to your shareholders does all the things legal has been telling you that you can’t do or don’t have time for. Here's how to get the ball rolling.
Updated Mon Apr 16, 2012
Skunkworks, Reorganization, And Other Tactics To Excel In The Digital Age Traditional organizational structures are ill-equipped to meet the challenges of the digital age. But the transition to an organizational structure that supports long-term leadership in digital can come to life in three phases, which can eventually run concurrently.
Updated Wed Feb 22, 2012
3 Proven Strategies To Keep The Internet From Killing Your Productivity You're probably reading this article during your workday as a distraction from whatever it is you’re supposed to be focusing on, which is likely sitting open and untouched in another window. Imagine how much you’d get done and how many fewer hours you'd have to work if the Internet weren't eating up all your time--follow these easy steps and you can make it happen.
Updated Thu Dec 15, 2011
Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your Company If you're not attracting the right talent to your company, it's not because you’re a consumer packaged goods company, rather than Google. It’s not because your salaries are too low, or because you don’t offer free food and laundry services. It’s because you’re not providing them the right opportunity.
Updated Thu Dec 15, 2011
RIM's Only Road Back: Building An iPhone Killer Speculation over RIM’s demise hits the press daily, and I’m sure many news outlets already have drafted its obituary. But there's still time for RIM to save itself and recapture its former glory. How? It's time to get up off the floor, stop wasting time with me-too products and finally build a product that’s better than the iPhone.
Updated Thu Dec 8, 2011
Be The Steve Jobs Of Your Company Steve Jobs isn’t just a CEO, he’s an idea, and an idea that all companies should embrace.
Updated Mon Nov 7, 2011
Wake Up! Your Company Is Now In The Software Business If software is destined to transform an industry, it doesn’t logically follow that established market participants must sit back and watch as software companies digest and destroy their businesses, or that they must cede operational independence and market share to technology pure plays. Instead, they can and should fight victimhood by becoming software companies themselves.
Updated Wed Sep 14, 2011
Lose Your Privacy Loss of privacy is the price of convenience. Someday the tradeoff won't even be questioned.
Posted Wed Aug 25, 2010
The Great App Bubble When I recently received my new iPhone 4, I took great delight in organizing my apps into folders. Then I used it for a couple of days and realized, not counting pre-loaded Apple software, I use exactly five apps...
Posted Fri Aug 20, 2010
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