While many of the changes introduced by COVID-19 have been extremely challenging, some of the trends I’ve been noticing will provide new opportunities for businesses. And, as companies think about the next stages of bringing people back to work and also reducing the spread of the virus, they’ll be re-examining…

The Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, the most popular of their kind, are over ten years old. If you consider the iTunes Music Store, you’re looking at a product that hasn’t fundamentally changed in over 20 years, with the technology behind it just as antiquated. …

In the Space industry, the use of booster rockets to help propel the main payload to its destination, is fairly commonplace. The concept started with the space shuttle, and has been refined by SpaceX, but the concept is the same: booster rockets are used to propel the payload to its…

The network in our building was slow… very slow. Our volumes were about the same as usual, so it wasn’t our standard business processes getting in the way. If you looked at our backlog, it was growing at an alarming rate. So what could be making our network so slow…

Years ago a promising young woman, let’s call her Janet, got a job at a large company in Cupertino. She was excited about the prospect of working at this world renowned billion dollar corporation, as she has always had a special affinity for the CEO: the barefooted, macrobiotic hippie who…

The other day my son was using the Audible app on his iPhone when I recommended a book to add to his playlist (The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson). He mumbled a few words under his breath and put his phone away unhappy. I understood his pain; he was…