Lean by Design

I came across an article in Silicon.com on a somewhat negative reaction of the British public to globalization. It wasn’t all that interesting in and of itself, since this is a natural reaction on the part of a significant portion of the population. I also didn’t think their claim of 33% of their respondents being [...]

An important consequence of Voice 2.0 will be the pervasive integration of Voice and other Real-time and time shifted personal communications into the Web experience. Myself and others believe that this will lead to a radically different market for communication products and services, as well as tremendous innovation. Given my views in this regard, I [...]

For those of you that have read some of my earlier posts, such as my most recent diatribe on the commoditization of software, you know that I believe that the days of rapid accumulation of wealth coming from pure software companies are largely behind us. Heck, think of the most recently technology blockbusters. Almost none [...]

An interesting trend has taken hold in the IT world over the past few years that is now spreading to the Communications industry. Others have commented on the changing nature of tech start-ups and its implications for the Venture Capital business, but when the New York times writes about it, you know that things have [...]