New Book By Lou Gerstner
Click to enlarge I was very fortunate to be at IBM for thirty-five years. Every one of those years was exciting and rewarding but the last eight were by far the best. Those were the years when Lou Gerstner was Chairman and CEO. A number of books refer to him on the cover or the […]
Prototype of ibm.com homepage
May 11, 1994 Prototype of ibm.com homepage The ibm.com homepage was first shown to the senior management group on May 11, 1994. (Back then we were formal and called it by its full URL: http://www.ibm.com; our intranet was (and still is) w3.ibm.com). As far as I know, www.ibm.com was the first case of a Fortune […]
Inside-Out
A friend of mine received an order confirmation from Ticketmaster recently that contained the following… Thanks for purchasing your tickets with Ticketmaster. Your confirmation number for this purchase is 5-20471/NY4. You might want to print or save this email for future reference. Don’t wait on the phones–buy your tickets online & speed through the ticket […]
Two Percent – case 2
I continue to say we are only two percent of the way into what the Internet has in store for us. It isn’t the technology — its the gap between expectations and results. What we expect and what we get. You would think by now that major e-businesses would have pretty slick ways to satisfy […]
Fall Internet World
Fall Internet World is coming up in less than three weeks and I am honored to being one of the keynote speakers. I’ll be talking about “The Future of the Internet” on Tuesday, October 1, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM . There will be a short press meeting afterwards and then the conference book store […]
