MIT CIO leadership awards now accepting applications
Everyone knows I am a strong advocate of Chief Information Officers. It’s a tough job fraught with pressure from management that demands simultaneous cost cutting and innovation along with increasingly sophisticated business requirements for technology-enabled transformation. Despite these challenges and many more, there are great CIOs using technology to drive significant and meaningful business improvements. […]

The DARPA Collaboration Experiment and What it Means for Your Organization
In 2009, DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which is a research arm of the U.S. Department of Defense, put forth an interesting challenge. They were going to place 10 red, anchored, 8 foot tall weather balloons across the United States and have teams compete to see who can identify the location of all ten […]

5 Reasons Why CapGemini Just Re-Positioned their Management Consulting Practice to Focus on Social Business
Don’t believe the world’s businesses are going social? Take this recent declaration from CapGemini’s Managing Director, Global Head of Practices, Didier Bonnet when discussing Social Business with me: “We’ve actually repositioned the entire practice around digital transformation. So for us it’s not just changing one service offering; it’s our entire focus globally for our teams […]

How Does the Web See You? Find Your Internet Persona.
The other day I was watching a movie of my life. Well, sort of. Courtesy of Peter Kim who pointed to this experiment by MIT PhD student Aaron Zinman, I got to peek into the process of how his algorithm analyses my digital footprint: Wow, a lot of old activity, and I’m really surprised […]

Being Fair and Balanced is Not Easy When You Get Quoted Out of Context
Getting quoted in respected publications is an honor. Except – your quote may end up sounding quite different from the intent. Such is the case of the MIT Technology Review, which makes it sound like @krishnan is dumping on recently launched SpotCloud. Not exactly. You read it here @CloudAve first: SpotCloud Launches Today: What Kind […]
What E2.0 Champions are Doing Right… and Wrong
Andrew McAfee, from the Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, believes we’ve reached a tipping point in terms of the acceptance of the tools and techniques of enterprise 2.0. McAfee sees some positive signs and some danger areas – “We have the opportunity to snatch defeat out of the jaws of success”. […]