The World Economic Forum's mission is to improve the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society. Much has been written about their Davos and Dalian events and how each event effectively crystallizes the context and direction of thought at any particular time. This...
(2) Comments | Posted August 29, 2011 | 11:10 AM
The first time I went to a work party was the summer of 1995 at an extravagant gala Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) threw in San Francisco with thousands of employees. Slightly in awe, I was fascinated with meeting people and learning their stories. Like all opulent events, I met people...
(21) Comments | Posted May 2, 2011 | 2:24 PM
President Obama's dinner with the elite of Silicon Valley and ultra exclusive San Francisco tech fundraiser were well covered without any details leaking about the discussions. While not quite as attention grabbing, I recently had the opportunity to have dinner with a number of CEOs and...
(9) Comments | Posted March 15, 2011 | 5:00 PM
Crowdsourcing connects people with tasks as divergent as weighing a bull, creating a Super Bowl Ad, and finding gold. Wikipedia, itself a prime example, defines crowdsourcing as "the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to an undefined, large group of people or community...
(12) Comments | Posted January 13, 2011 | 12:12 PM
Cloud computing may be defined as location independent computing whereby shared servers -- for the purposes of this article, external to the enterprise -- provide resources, software, and data to computers and other devices on demand. Cloud computing may have started out as an emerging trend that only IT professionals...

(0) Comments | Posted September 23, 2011 | 12:02 PM