2015 Has Mutant Powers – and Happy New Year
While “mutant powers” sounds more "comic book" than technology, the year 2015 seems to have mutant powers of its own. Technology is enabling behaviors that are simultaneously familiar like storytelling and unfamiliar like sharing lives with casual or business friends....
More Disruption Points to the Collaborative Economy
Disruption is becoming an expectation in the emerging economy. The so called "middleman" jobs are disappearing and an economy of collaboration based on P2P (person-to-person or peer-to-peer) relationships are clearly emerging. From Uber and 3D printing to Amazon and...
Fixing The Creativity Deficit
Recent business articles lament on the need for creativity in the business, but always have a single shortcoming: You can't teach someone to be creative, they had to learn to apply creativity before getting the job. Raise the banner, rock the laser show and cue the...
Why Google+ Will Rise (When Nobody Expects It)
There has been a lot of speculation of the future of Google+ as Vic Gundotra, the head of the social network leaves Big G. Even before Google Wave,I believed Google+ was on a seven-year adoption plan. Start with college students needing an integrated mobile app to...
5 Disruptive Takeaways from SXSW 2014
This post originally appeared on the Pitney Bowes Software blog. If piloting businesses through the internet years was not enough, the big single takeaway from SXSW interactive, the world’s largest disruptive technology conference, is that the changes are not over....
SXSW: Brian Solis Talks About the Connected Consumer
One of the great parts about SXSW are the great conversations, like this one with Brian Solis in the PayPal Social Media Lounge. Connected consumers pose challenges and opportunities to businesses. Most of the business expertise we have individually hasn't changed...