Archive : Strategy

Two weeks ago Dr. Alexander Pasik, CIO of IEEE, posited that businesses would be more inclined to use cloud services if service providers carried insurance against data breaches. We could not disagree more.

The enterprise software market is almost always a paid one. However, how do you establish the price for a brand new enterprise software innovation no one has ever used before?

The iCloud is a new kind of cloud where copies of data exist in MANY places. This difference is not a fine point. It is a “game-changer.”

MySpace, one of the original big social media players, is on the sales block for $50-$200 million. Groupon, founded years later, is now preparing a $15-BILLION IPO. What did Groupon do so differently to create 100x more value using social media?

Over the next 10 years the amount of data we capture and store will grow to over 2,400 times the total storage capacity of every human brain on Earth. If we don’t want to be overwhelmed by this, we are going to have to re-invent how we explore and analyze data.

In soccer, players “form a square” to outmaneuver an entrenched, stronger defender. This same strategy can enable small, agile challengers to form a square of market niches that enable them to outmaneuver and displace an entrenched market leader.