The ironic thing is that Microsoft's Outlook is the world's "Rolodex", but they have not figured out how to link up all the latent...

How many organizations are hampered by their existing technology base rendering them inflexible? I think many more than are willing to...

Many years ago, there were a few influential academic articles that predicted that the coming web of information technology would cause...

con·text (/ˈkäntekst/) n. The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The...

John Sviokla &Tony Paoni The pressure to create new value and extract it through both higher prices and intellectual property protection...

Even Great Products Can't Beat an Eco-System The iPod is doomed; not this month, not this year, maybe not even the next year. But soon...

In his brilliant book, Notes on the Synthesis of Form, Christopher Alexander asks, why can an illiterate builder create a dwelling that...

The front page of yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported how Tesco in the UK is beating up on Wal-Mart's Asda chain by using Clubcard...

Paul Reuter, who later founded the Reuters press agency, used a fleet of pigeons to deliver news and stock prices, including the outcome...

The easiest way to increase productivity of your knowledge workers is to simply increase the amount of "screen estate" they have. I...

When I was a kid, I played with mercury I harvested from thermometers. (I also made lead weight belts from scraps of lead I retrieved...

If something is digitizable, and can be well described and monitored, it will be traded. Services are more and more tradable every day....

Almost every firm can compete better if they just mastered speed and accuracy of customer data. It is that simple. You can have an...

How to Save RFID Initiatives for the Department of Defense and Wal-Mart When Wal-Mart and the Department of Defense (DoD) both push a new...

Despite much talk about new organization forms, and networks, most profit making organizations have more in common with the Roman Army...

When it comes to content, the internet collapses time. "Now", "then", and in some cases even the "future", is a click away. This means...

When I started using my new Amazon Kindle, their 10.3 ounce electronic reader, it became clear to me that Jeff Bezos is rewriting our...

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a story about how Boeing purchased Aviall, one of the largest parts distributors and a host of an...

A few days ago (April 26) Gary Hamel wrote a piece for the Wall Street Journal explaining what Google needs to do to keep growing. He...

April 24th's New York Times featured a front page (below the fold) picture (and story) of hotels.nl's advertising on the side of sheep,...