I will leave the arguments about PIPA and SOPA to others (particularly Tim O’Reilly’s response).  What I found particularly interesting in this dispatch on how PIPA met it’s end is how the politicians chose to …

The gap between intentions (brand and messaging) and actions (product/service quality and public review) is the distance any organization now needs to bridge in their planning.

We are hurtling towards a world of total information capture where email, texting, instant message and mobile video are documenting our everyday speech and action – in effect rendering all speech as text. There will be few places to “talk” without that talk being given the weight and permanence of text.

Recently I had to jot down a few talking points  on some ways that the network economy is impacting business strategy.   I dealt with about three trends.  Below is the first set:

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Everything that can be …

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In business “Faster is Better” is better for more reasons than you might think
For the past several years I have been thinking about the role of speed in customer …

Gaining attention in this world becomes as much about the science of standing out as the art of being outstanding. And every link forged is a form of currency exchange where the market favors the heavyweights.

And as the pace of connectivity and access points (mobile, tablets, connected devices) increase so will the rate of change. In this environment the only ones who will thrive are those capable of rapid, continuous adaptation at an organizational level.

The title of this post is a quote from Kevin Kelly.  I was reminded of it when I read this brief entry in Boing Boing, titled, “Winds howl over the deserted moonscape behind Rupert Murdoch’s …

2009 was the year that everything received a “social” prefix; social media, social web, social business and so on. I wanted to ask John Hagel – co-chair of Deloitte’s Center for the Edge – for his take on the significance of the term and its importance for business.
John starts with a great quote, “in many respects we are going back to the future:” the Internet began as a social tool with early bulletin boards that connected small groups with shared interests (mainly academic researchers). Then the Worldwide Web came along

How long before we can scan any object and know more about its ingredients than the misleading label? How long before every in-store customer seamlessly moves online to the vast Internet marketplace to find the rock-bottom price and bargain with you?