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Yes, it’s that time. You knew it as soon as you heard Bing Crosby crooning White Christmas at the grocery store. No, we’re not talking about Christmas…we’re talking about the time of the year for every yoyo with an opinion to predict what will happen in the coming year. We’re never short on opinions ourselves, […]

I am a proud survivor of Black Friday 2013. It was the most impersonal, poorly thought through and aggressive Black Friday I’ve experienced yet. When I say survived, I’m not referring to the competition for parking spaces, the crush of shoppers or the tough decisions of which bargain would be worth fighting for. I’m not […]

Besides having to get FAA approval, the risks of whirling propellers and the dangerous curiosity of small children, why not? Amazon today showed off its research into Prime Air, a 30-minute delivery service performed by autonomous small helicopters that they say could be in service in a few years. Of course, there’s a video (see below). […]

With a high school senior about to go off to college, education and the future of careers are front and center at our home. We’ve come out strongly in favor of computer science as an incredible career field. With both parents working in technology, it would be easy to say that our bias toward technology […]

Forrester’s Nigel Fenwick posted Dawn of a New Digital Age this morning, a great summary of why we sit at the beginning of something very different from what humans have experienced to date. Fenwick calls it a revolution and ties his evidence to the rise of web-connected sensors: Consider a world in which every object […]

It’s hard to find anyone to argue that traditional broadcast TV is the future of content delivery. But that doesn’t mean that the model will go down without a fight. Industry disruptor Aereo has been waging a battle to allow users of their service to stream and record broadcast content to a device of their […]

Every day we hear about investors chasing the new, shiny innovations that can add to the top line, but what about that other line — the bottom line? With little fanfare, a new kind of disruption has been picking up steam — disruption in the cost of production. Uber and AirBnB are powerful examples of […]

The following is a guest post by Alistair Croll. This talks about game theory. I’ve probably messed some of the examples up, despite reading a book or two on it. Feel free to correct me. A few weeks ago, I was in the Bay Area buying supplies for a week of camping in the desert. […]

In previous blogs we referred to the operating models of retail banks by identifying certain product and channel features that drive the changes in the industry. This post will focus on the evolving operating model and the impacts it has on people, process and enabling capabilities, which is more than the technology that drives most […]

Is your job safe? Are there things you can do to ensure the future? Maybe there’s a completely different way to view the new economy and your role in it. The workplace is fundamentally changing from the Industrial Age system of large factories offering many jobs to one where smaller companies, sometimes drastically smaller, sell […]

A coworker shared a LinkedIn function a while back that creates a graphical map of your contacts. I created my own and marveled at the pretty colors and curving lines. Other than looking like a new and highly personal art form, what did it mean? Truth be told, I’m still not entirely sure. Yet I keep […]

If you missed it, a small French (Yay, France!) software company, Bunkr, just showed us how perhaps the most venerable tool in everyone’s tool chest will be disrupted. You’ll need to go look at it, but before you do, consider these things: The world is moving to rich, visual content, from many sources Bullet points […]

The following is a guest post by Sandesh Sharanappa. The banking industry is poised for a sea change as a result of the changing global and national regulations, demanding customers, disruptive technologies and the arrival of non-traditional players offering retail banking services. The industry faces a challenge in providing seamless customer experience, becoming truly customer […]

The following is a guest post by Tim DeWitt. In the late 1990’s, early 2000’s, the book Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life was a popular motivational book by Spencer Johnson. It addressed the issue of experiencing change in one’s work and life […]