About a year ago I wrote a blog on the post retirement phase of my life.  It's what I call an "atomic" model - collaborating with others on specific tasks/projects and then dissolving those collaborations as you work with others on different projects. In some ways, this is the way Hollywood has been working for decades.  My time is now my own.  MORE >>

A few weeks ago I attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The theme of this year’s Symposium was Piloting the Untethered Enterprise :  “In today's world of mobile, big data and the cloud, how does a CIO successfully pilot his organization towards its goals?”  . But lots of questions remain as to what those implications might be.  MORE >>

A few weeks ago I met with Carlota Perez in New York.  I first met Carlota , - a friend so I will refer to her by first name, - around the time of the publication of her 2002 book: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital:  The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages.  Let me briefly summarize her views. . Yes, she replied, but it will take time.  MORE >>

Erik Brynjolffson and Andrew McAfee just published an excellent short (sixty pages, less than twenty thousand words) e-book - Race Against the Machine: How The Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.  There are few more timely and vital subjects.  We think it?s MORE >>

I recently read a fascinating online conversation on Collective Intelligence with Tom Malone.  Malone is Professor of Management at MIT’s Sloan School and the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI).  The CCI was founded to study how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together.  MORE >>