Bullpen Bulletins

Executive perspectives on business interaction

This is a round table discussion that I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit. We explored how executives are handling effective communications in a globalized marketplace. I chatted with Joan Parsons, head of US Banking at Silicon Valley Bank and Morten Hansen, author and professor at UC Berkeley. Cisco was the sponsor.

Business leader insights into consumer-driven technology

This is a round table discussion I moderated for the Economist Intelligence Unit with Steve Ellis with Wells Fargo and Dr. Alan Weston with NASA. CA Technologies was the sponsor.

User interface and the network

This is the third of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The third one entitled: INNOVATION IN USER INTERFACE is a conversation between myself, Bo Begole, Aza Raskin, and Tim Twerdahl.

How will we interface with the network as our physical and digital worlds converge?

Entertainment and the network

This is the second of a three-part series that I hosted for the Economist Intelligence Unit in collaboration with Juniper Networks' NExTWORK program.

The second one entitled: INNOVATION IN ENTERTAINMENT is a conversation between myself, Mark Cuban, Dermot McCormack, and Ben Huh.

How did the entertainment industry shape the Internet? … and vise versa?

 

Chat with Intuit CIO Ginny Lee - The Importance of Cloud

Intuit CIO Ginny Lee spoke with me at the SIIA All About the Cloud Conference about the important role cloud computing and mobile play in serving customers and enhancing Intuit's business. Here are the two segments I found most interesting.

Q&A With Del Monte CIO: Getting Cloud From a Can

    Cloud computing isn't just for 20th Century enterprises. Even businesses that have been around since the Klondike Gold Rush benefit from Internet-enabled technologies.

via www.internetevolution.com

Internet Evolution - Executive Clan Editor's Blog - Tech Challenges Await GE's Incoming CTO

If you were given the opportunity to choose the technology systems that could power a multinational conglomerate, where would you start?

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Does Steve Jobs Hate Enterprise IT?

Good question.

Video discussion here at Internet Evolution

During his interview at the D8 Conference, Jobs pointed out that in the enterprise, the people that end up using the products don't decide for themselves what technology is the best. And the people that make those decisions sometimes are confused.

Fair enough, but Apple is permeating in so many areas of the enterprise these days that he would be remiss to ignore that part of the business much more, especially with so many iPhones used in corporate culture and the iPad coming online.

I'm Video Blogging on Internet Evolution

For the last week, I've been taping video segments as part of Internet Evolution's video blog series.

Expect to see more of these in the future:

From Internet Evolution 10/01/2009

EBay hired data mining expert Eric Brill as its vice president of research and applied science. What does this mean for business analytics?

Watch the video here...

'Brain'-Fueled Internet Could Change CIO Thinking

From Internet Evolution 9/21/2009

If the brain is a network of neurons and the Internet is a network of nodes, can we develop the Internet to be a brain? Well, evidence suggests the Internet is already a brain and we're in the process of developing it into something larger and more useful.

At least that's basic precept of a book I've been reading this past week, Wired for Thought, written by Jeffrey Stibel, in which he discusses the implications of the evolution of the Internet as a brain -- not as an evil overlord that will one day replace humans, but as a sympathetic, predictive, and well intentioned network designed around the concepts that we carry around in our own brains.

Please read the rest of the article.