The Linchpin and The New Polymath – The Indispensable Individuals and Organizations
One of my favorite books of the year is the Linchpin by Seth Godin – it takes you on a journey from how our economy has evolved to a point where its neither necessary nor optimal for you to be a cog in the wheel of a faceless system that treats you as …
IT in 2030, er 2015.
As Gartner gets ready to celebrate 20 years of its Symposium , senior analyst Richard Hunter bravely – and somewhat somberly – looks 20 years out. “Have I mentioned that every 20 years, the world is a completely different place? I would predict increasing fragmentation of society. I would predict that privacy will be redefined […]
Digital Ethics: we need to move way beyond privacy
As we go through another round of hand wringing around Facebook’s privacy policies, it is a good time to acknowledge that privacy crowds out many other nagging cyber-ethical issues. In my book, I dedicate a whole chapter to other ethical issues. I interviewed several professors, attorneys and thoughtful peers. I also laid out 8 ethical […]
The SapphireNow version
As I spend a couple of days at SapphireNow, the SAP user conference in Orlando, it is timely to acknowledge the impact of the vendor on many sections of upcoming book, The New Polymath. Several SAP customers, partners, Mentors, present and former employees like John Dean, Mike Prosceno, Marilyn Pratt, Gretchen Lindquist, Dennis Howlett, Craig […]
VMForce edition: the salesforce.com case study
As salesforce.com introduces with VMWare a potential “game-changer” when it comes to Java development, we present some excerpts from Chapter 19, the case study on salesforce.com in the upcoming book. BTW – this is from a version which is still undergoing final edits. “Salesforce.com has gone from one success to the next. It started off […]
My Book – The New Polymath
2,000+ innovation blogs. 150+ interviews with innovators. Countless others who facilitated the interviews and are currently helping with the editing and publishing process. It takes a village to write a book.And to show a powerful, emerging pattern in the marketplace. While most media and social networks focus on every little nuance of the iPhone, Facebook […]
Steve Jobs: Make room
By Vinnie Mirchandani on March 4, 2010
Something remarkable happened in the Valley last week. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, Larry Page of Google, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins (KP), and executives from Walmart, Coca-Cola, FedEx and elsewhere attended a launch party. All kinds of media descended. And it had nothing to do with an Apple product. In […]
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