December, 2011

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Hey, Hollywood!

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‘Tis the season to see Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Daniel Craig, Robert Downey Jr. ‘Tis also the season to review the typeset version of my new book. And as I juxtapose the two, I am staggered how many tech themes.

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We the chumps

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I recently passed the Ayn Rand section in the bookstore and saw her book I had read a long time ago. I also thought if she lived today, given her libertarian views, she would bristle against how many businesses take.

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A brave new world of services

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I recently saw an SAP announcement around its Next-Gen services and got excited. Turns out it is services around its newer products (SAP HANA platform and business analytics, mobility and on-demand). That’s certainly one definition of Next-Gen. I was hoping.

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The SAP cloud a freak of nature?

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In Florida, where I live, we know a thing or two about clouds. We see them in the horizon or on the radar and we reset lawn sprinklers from auto to manual. We think of sedating our beagle, who becomes.

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A tough crowd

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When The New Polymath came out, I took heat for being nice to an innovation group at BP. It had nothing to do with the Gulf spill, but people would have preferred I paint BP as a villain. With my.

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Economists And Analysts Have No Idea.

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Apologies to Henry Blodget for borrowing the title of his column and making it even more provocative. He talks about poor short term forecasts from market watchers. I would say that is the equivalent of showing up on wrong bank.

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Revolutionary, Legendary, Incredible

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Congratulations to Lars Dalgaard and his team at SuccessFactors as SAP makes a bid at a significant premium for $ 3.4 billion. His excitement is palpable as he uses plenty of big words in the press release. Let’s do a.

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