Lean by Design

A good analysis of the recent Nokia announcement over Open Sourcing of its Mobile Platform can be found here. Earlier this year I had heard rumours of a large company creating an open source platform project from a credible source. My source wouldn’t tell me who, but claimed that it was a ‘large’ company. Well, [...]

The Internet has ushered in a sea change of new businesses over the past decade or so. Perhaps as noteworthy is the new business models that it has encouraged for entirely new businesses, as well as existing businesses. This can be seen in the business models for new software products that have been introduced over [...]

Everyday there is more and more evidence of the changing landscape of Voice technology vendors. Not that long ago, when one considered communication solutions they would automatically turn to the big Telecom vendors like Nortel, Lucent, Avaya, Cisco, Nokia, Ericsson, and others. While you might not be able to count them on one hand, it [...]

A group of industry leaders participating in organizing a conference on the future of communications, identified Globalization as one of the disruptive influences that will drive the industry over the coming years. Now before you go ‘ho hum’, I believe it is worth taking note of the discussion and ideas that came up around this [...]