I spent most of my first day at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) listening to press conferences, mostly from big companies. Some, like Dish, made a big splash with an LED drum parade followed by multiple marching kangaroos. The Dish CEO, Joseph P. Clayton, marched on stage with a drum and was pretty entertaining. And then the presentations started. Dish, though, kept a … [Read more...] about Ten Investor Presentation Tips (after sitting through CES Press Day – 2015)
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Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design
This is an except from the new report: Why Collaboration is Broken. In Nicolas Nasim Taleb’s book, Anti-Fragile, the noted decision-making author describes how some things in nature and engineering benefit from chaos and stress. A glass does not benefit from stress. Place enough stress on it, and it shatters. When people exercise, that places stress on muscles, and the … [Read more...] about Why Collaboration is Broken: Becoming Anti-Fragile Through Design
Knowledge Management: The Price of Entry
Knowledge Management: The Price of Entry Knowledge management requires a price, and good design an even higher price. It is important that those involved in knowledge management pay attention, acutely, to the world around them, if they are to pick up the weak signals that precede new knowledge, or the wake of dissonance that alerts one to a changes in what is important to … [Read more...] about Knowledge Management: The Price of Entry
Download New Report: Why Collaboration is Broken
Join knowledge workers all over the world in learning how to make collaboration better. Over the last year, Serious Insights Principal Analyst Daniel W. Rasmus has worked with vendors and consumers of technology to understand why collaboration technology doesn’t provide the business value it should. This research resulted in a new report: Why Collaboration is Broken, an … [Read more...] about Download New Report: Why Collaboration is Broken
HBR – CIOs: Scenario Planning Can Save Your Job
It’s the rare CIO who applies scenario planning to the business of IT. Yet, in a function driven by innovation and the uncertainties surrounding the application and implication of future technologies, not using scenarios is tantamount to management malpractice. Scenarios can help IT organizations create more resilient plans, practice for business climate changes, and better … [Read more...] about HBR – CIOs: Scenario Planning Can Save Your Job
