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Not Your Father's Telephone
"Ten years ago, I spoke to 300 telecom engineers ...and made the observation that within 10 to 20 years, most of the world’s telephone systems will have moved to Internet…
Comments in Small Market Meetings magazine
I'm featured on the cover of this month's Small Market Meetings magazine, reporting on my comments in my keynote at the MPI MidAmerica session last March in Cincinnati. My belief?…
New article - "The commodization of human capital"
In my latest association column, I note that "With the political storm now raging around outsourcing and "off-shoring," one fact seems to be rather obscured: it is happening…
Offshoring -- if anyone was listening....
I find it kind of fascinating that people seem surprised about the offshoring of many jobs to India and elsewhere. Back in 1996 or 1997, I released a list of 10 important trends…
Oil & gas, real estate, entitlement, infrastructure and risk management!
I explained to a client today that when I'm preparing for a keynote or workshop, I often end up putting 30-40 hours of research into each talk. I'm well immersed in that process…
What comes next?
We live in a world of hyper-competition, constant, relentless change, rapid innovation and increasing market risk. People can choose to watch as their world passes them by, or…
Leadership for the future / "trends radar"
I've had two new association executive related articles published in the last few weeks: Establish your own trends radar"I'm often asked how I became a "futurist, trends &…
Telecom market disruption
Every industry reaches a point where new technologies, business models, a critical mass of user readiness and customer demands suddenly brings it to the point where everything…
Revisiting the future
For a while, it wasn't trendy to think about the future. Now that's over -- I'm noticing that companies are scrambling to try to understand the trends and issues that will affect…
" I don't think the marketing world has figured it out yet"
I'm quoted in a ComputerWorld artilce this week, Blogs Bubble Into Business. The points I raise were discussed in an earlier article I wrote about the topic. As I comment in…
Interview on significance of VoIP (Voice over Internet protocol)
You can catch a clip with me on the CBC National Business show talking about Voice-over-IP and what it means. Interestingly enough, this call was done through an Internet phone…
VoIP is the Napster of the telecom industry
I had a busy week last week -- a full day workshop on e-government, and a board of directors strategy session for a New York state credit union. So this weekend, I decided to stay…
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