For the sake of candor and clarity, let me be explicit: we are in an economic recession.
Let me also be explicit about the impact of the recession on the IT industry: we are already in the midst of a significant downturn in IT spending - not only for small and mid-size businesses but for “the enterprise.” [...]
Confirmation of these central principles comes from many places, and the opportunity to discuss my book with such intelligent readers and industry analysts continues to be a stunning and unexpected reward for the time spent writing this book.
The latest confirmation, of course, can be found on CIO.com, where Vint Cerf offers his comments on the nature [...]
Today’s lunchtime conversation with the CFO of Navis (www.navis.com) highlighted one of the many confusions that plague our profession: if we are plumbers, they want us to be architects; if we are architects, they want us to be visionaries; if we are visionaries, they want us to be plumbers.
It is the nature of an industry [...]
Since I was 12 years old and first realized a writer’s words (books, poems, essays) can actually be extended independently to a broader audience, I have remained fascinated with the possibility of the Idea being received before rather than after Proximity.
Therefore, many of you (visitors to the site who have never met me) will be [...]
For someone so familar with a daily writing routine, and so embedded in network phenomena, I am somewhat chagrined that it is only now that I am beginning the blog.
I am launching this site to begin a conversation. While it begins and ends with principles proposed in my book, The System is a Mirror (in [...]
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