Four Percent: Feedback from readers

There was quite a bit of feedback about the Four Percent story. Bill Sell, Managing Partner at Advisor Communications in Framingham, Massachusetts said that he had been looking for a 27” television with a specific housing size to fit in a wall unit. For over a month he had been visiting "all sorts of stores" […]

Waking Up IBM

Waking Up IBM: How a Gang of Unlikely Rebels Transformed Big Blue was written by Gary Hamel and published in the Harvard Business Review (July-August 2000: Reprint No. R00406). I had met gary at a “Revolutionaries” conference back during the height of the “boom” where we talked about change agents in big companies. Later Gary […]

The Semantic Web

The IT Conference in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil which I attended on October 20, 2004 was produced by IT Midia. One of their publications is INFORMATIONWEEK Brasil. Rachel Rubin is a reporter for the magazine and she interviewed me (by email) for a special issue which was distributed to the 300 attendees of the conference. The […]

Brazil 2004 – IT Midia Conference

The flight from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale, Florida was on Air Transat, a first for me. It was a no-frills airline but the flight was mostly painless and efficient. Then a ride down I-95 to Miami to join Varig Brasil for the 8 hour flight to Sao Paolo, the largest city in Brazil. It seems […]

Toronto – 2004: COMMON

All of us that travel internationally are used to big crowds at airports, but the number of people at Perason International airport in Toronto, Canada was as large as I have ever seen.  Although the lines for immigration looked formidable, the processing moved steadily and efficiently (even without the digital IDs I have been advocating). The […]