Somewhere between November 1994 and January 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. With every click on the hyperlink of static webpages my excitement and visions of the possibilities and the future exploded. During the course of my career, I have never bothered my family with the technical details of my job; but…
What does it mean to have a collaborative enterprise? How to encourage collaboration behavior and imbibe it in corporate culture? These and other ideas are shared in my post on this topic
Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) have been in focus since public social media sites and tools like Facebook and Twitter have gained in popularity and use. In the last couple of years many tools have been introduced that attempt to mimic the public social media and attempt to streamline the communications among globally spread co-workers… continue…
In case you haven’t paid close attention, another acronym has been gaining ground on the heels of IoT (Internet of Things). The new term, EoT (Enterprise of Things), is about IoT’s impact to and integration into the enterprise. In my previous blog, I wrote about how IoT will dramatically change the way we work and…
It was early 1995 when I first heard of something called Mosaic that one could download to browse a rapidly evolving cluster of web-sites. At that time, the number of web-sites online was somewhere around twenty thousand, but growing rapidly. When I internalized the implications of what I saw, I told my wife that this…
The IDC report, similar to Reuters, talk about slowing growth rate of smartphone and tablet sales. This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWS) has confirmed what the sales figures had hinted earlier. If you did not notice, two things are confirmed by what have been the highlights of MWS – 1) the pace of innovation in…
Published in 2005 The first part of this series can be read here and the second part in series can be read here. In this third and final part I will focus on leadership. While the government incentives can encourage innovation for the simple reason that it directly leads to profits, leadership is a different…
Published in 2005 This is the second in the three-part series. To read the first in series click here. In this article I will focus on encouraging innovation. On my way from hotel to the airport in Shanghai I pulled out the departure card and started filling in the details. I was able to fill it…
Published in 2005 Is India the next technology leader? Will we ever take on the US and show them the way, so to speak? For the last couple of years, the media has been rife about how India and China can take the lead from US, especially in the hi-tech. At home in India, the media and the…
Published in 2003 While I have been following the news articles and opinions about how US may lose its edge on technology leadership, I differ from majority of the views that have been expressed so far. What we see in the media and what is shared by the industry are mere indicators that reflect a…