Many years ago, I brought John Dvorak back to the ThinkPad design center for an interview with David. This is a room with more creative designs than most museums. Many items never make it out of this lab, yet they would make a lesser designer famous. I never sensed that David yearned for fame, but … Continue reading David Hill – Chief Lenovo Designer, a Man Who has Created Much, and Touched Millions
On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was sunk after delivering the Hiroshima bomb on a super secret mission. So secret, it was days before it was even noticed missing. When it was hit, 900 of the 1196 men went into the water. Less than 300 came out when they were sighted by accident and … Continue reading USS Indianapolis
IBM hasn’t ceded any space in the America’s or Europe and is doing just fine there, that’s not the point. Where we are doing well is in the new farmlands of the BRIC countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). According to the Economist, July 8-14, 2006 edition, Page 94: GDP, Q1 2006, % … Continue reading BRIC or Brac
We’re in the fight for Partners, middleware, marketshare and mindshare. There are many things in play. First of all, many of the middleware vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM) are well established, especially in the traditional geography’s like the US and EMEA. The fight for standards is down to .Net vs Open (or NetWeaver I guess), … Continue reading Follow the Money, where are the lands to Farm?
Hat’s off to the Asia Pacific IBM analyst relations team headed by Junaidah Dahlan and Karen Davis. I work with them frequently on global and regional announcements, cross IBM events and team issues. This is a well deserved reward for a job well done In a report byIntelligen/Lighthouse , the IBM A/R team proved to … Continue reading Who's #1 in Analyst Relations? In Asia Pacific, it's IBM
Hats off to Microsoft here, I wish we’d thought of this. Prize in Indian Talent Search Microsoft has a talent search in India that will produce one member to work with Gates for a year. If you look at this closely, there is one big winner….Microsoft. You may have thought I was going to say … Continue reading How to attract developers
A question that has interested historians and researchers for decades is: why? Why did Japan launch an attack that, in hindsight at least, they clearly had no chance of winning? The obvious answer is that they thought they could, but military and naval strategists know the answer is not so simple. Precisely because its resources … Continue reading Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a Date that will live in Infamy
If you haven’t noticed, IBM is speaking to the issue of the maturing workforce. I received these country statistics and found them quite interesting. There will be much more on this thread, but it gives a quick look at who is where in the age issue. Census Research – Percent of Total Population 60+ All … Continue reading More on Maturing Workforce, % of the population over 60
I’m proud to start out the week with an interview that I’ve anxiously anticipated for a while. John Mihalec is the head of IBM analyst relations, no small task. I learned some very interesting things about John that I never knew, and I hope his work background will be as interesting for you as it … Continue reading The Former Head of IBM analyst relations, who are we? – John Mihalec
IBM announced the VC advisory council and mentoring programs today. It was a good announcement and it got plenty of attention. A new term for me came out, BRIC which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China. We briefed a number of the analysts, so here are some of the comments. There was a theme of … Continue reading VC's and Mentoring
Delusions of Adequacy 