Here's some scary stuff from the mobile world. "Anything [hackers] can choose to do, they can," according to Mathew Solnik, a security consultant at Accuvant Inc. In fact, Mr. Solnik has demonstrated the ability hack a cellphone without alerting the user or the phone company, turning it into a live
Business model generation in the Internet of Things (IoT) universe
The Internet of Things (IoT) changes everything, especially how we go about crafting and testing business models. "To take advantage of new, cloud-based opportunities, today’s companies will need to fundamentally rethink their orthodoxies about value creation and value capture", writes Gordon Hui in
Business frameworks in the wild
News flash... there's no best path to business success. In his HBR article The Answer to Every Business Question is "It Depends", Professor Scott Schaefer introduces the quest he and Professors Mike Mazzeo and Paul Oyer took on to find out if the academic business frameworks we read about so
Business’ future doesn’t fit in the containers of the past
Question, if our current business management systems don’t yet account for the shift from isolated industries to ecosystems why do so many business leaders not look for a better way? This puzzled Greg Satell (@DigitalTonto) especilly since so many of have comment on the networked economy.
Business decks as a meeting pre-read; good, bad who’s to say?
Well, Charles Hudson - @chudson - a seasoned entrepreneur and VC looks at it this way. We invest in people and opportunities, not decks. More insightful, however, is the following statement "I am sensitive to wasting people’s time, but I’ve learned that I do a better job paying attention to pitches
Suits, how to tell tech investors what you do (and prove you’re good at it)
Is a company's resistance to invest in longer term innovation endeavors setting them up for an eventual fall? Ironically this aversion to longer term investment is especially prevalent on the business side of tech companies, the exact people who you would think openly embrace deep well thought
5 quotes that truly inspire… thank you Dr. King
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” "Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the
3 Attributes Powerfully Successful Problem Solvers Possess
Good problem solving skills are fundamentally important, especially when leading a business. But problems (what's that consulting term... challenges) are something that we don't particularly like. They're time-consuming. They bogart their way into our already packed schedules. And the queue never
The Secret of Getting Business Deals Moving
Say it's not so! It can't be. But alas it is. We are segueing into September. Over the next two weeks bathing suits will be wrung out, surfboards stowed, and backpacks wrenched out from beneath that pile of camp gear. Turning up the dial This is a period of both great anticipation and