Reflections
I began to write “reflections” in 1997. Some were about visits to an IBM customer, a university campus, or just to reflect on some issue of the day that struck me at the time. The Reflections were not an attempt to be profound…. just to share.Needless to say, this was a precursor to blogging. Some […]
Worms and Potato Chips
Packaging is one of those things that most of us probably don’t think about a lot. That set of plastic, glass, paper, Styrofoam, cardboard, and poly-whatever that contains and protects things we buy. I think of packaging in two categories — that which something is stored in and that which something is shipped in. I […]
Microcapital
The final speaker at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles was Nick Donofrio, the company’s Executive Vice President for Innovation and Technology. Always an emotional, enthusiastic and at times nostalgic speaker, little did the audience know that the next day IBM would announce that Nick will be retiring on October 1 after a […]
CEO Titans
IBM Business Partners Leadership Conference May 1, 2008, Los AngelesNotes by John. R. Patrick The accelerating integration of global economies IBM committed to becoming a global integrated enterprise. BRIC plus 60-70 others The emergence of a new computing model IBM remixed it’s business to move to higher-value spaces away from low margin high volume products. […]
The World in 2050
The flight to Los Angeles last week was long but on schedule and it provided some time to make a dent in reading World Without End (sequel to The Pillars of the Earth) by Ken Follett on the Kindle. Holding the 10-once e-reader is a joy and the battery lasted throughout the six hour flight. […]
