“People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” So pronounced Harvard Business School Professor Theodore Levitt in his 1974 book…
Last month, management consulting giant Accenture and McLagan, an operations benchmarking research firm, published the report Banking on Blockchain: A Value Analysis for Investment Banks.…
Looking for the center of the action in cryptocurrency today? Bitcoin is so passé – the big money is now in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).…
Last month, fellow Forbes contributor Lee Mathews reported on the recent wave of ‘Jackpotting’ attacks on ATMs in the United States. Jackpotting is where a…
Last week, enterprise open source leader Red Hat announced it was acquiring CoreOS, an up-and-coming player in the red-hot container marketplace. Superficially, the motivation for…
I was recently speaking with an executive of a hot new blockchain-based startup. Her story was deeply appalling. “We met with James*, the CEO of…
Two massive macroeconomic trends are colliding at this snowbound congregation of the world’s economic leaders: the insistence on providing a fair work environment for women…
As the low-code/no-code movement continues to explode, skeptics look askance at the trend and wonder if we’ve been down this road before. After all, we’ve…
A month ago, my article Seven Lies Bitcoin Fans Tell Themselves (And Anyone Else Who Will Listen) clearly struck a nerve, as almost half a…
Continuing a tradition from last year’s retrospective, my New Year’s contribution reviews my top articles from the year before, with a look at why these…
