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Monthly Archives: November 2013

Native mobile: a new (and scary) link in the enterprise value chain

In my Defrag talk this week I tried to make the case that the accelerating pace of technology change has reached a point where most large companies can no longer keep up. Technology risk now presents the single biggest existential threat to established companies + brands, and nowhere is this more true than in the continue…

November 9, 2013

Industrial Entropy: Technology, Capitalism and the Rise of the Agile Firm

Note: This post is the text of a talk I gave today at Defrag 2013. Thanks again to Eric Norlin for the opportunity to speak and hope this fulltext fills in the gaps left by my onstage free association. tl;dr The technology industry has changed sides. After decades as an ally of the multinational corporation continue…

November 5, 2013

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