Information technology and telecom sector

A few years ago, while I was a first-year Ph.D. student in the engineering school at Johns Hopkins University, I had a business idea. I had taken two excellent courses on microelectronics, and decided that I could build a business around them in my native Nigeria. As a college student in Nigeria, I had wanted […]

The recent hearings on Apple’s tax practices raises significant questions about who pays what and why.

The music industry, in its latest attempt to destroy itself, has decided that Amazon is its savior. And Amazon’s new downloading service is excellent: it’s easy to use, the prices are consistently lower than those on Apple’s store, there’s no annoying DRM that limits how and where you can listen to the music you own, […]

Microsoft is making a big push into the management of individuals' health information with a new online offering called HealthVault. The Wall Street Journal...

A case study of IBM in the 1990s points to what Dell must do to succeed.

Back in 2007, my colleague Scott Anthony argued that Nintendo’s Wii would be a disruptive innovation that could catch Sony and Microsoft off-guard. The core of the argument was that Nintendo’s strategy of “competing against non-consumption” would allow it to fly under the radar of Microsoft and Sony, which were engaging in an arms race […]

Don’t rip out the registers just yet.

Dropbox is the simple file syncing service that has grown, in just a few years, to 50 million active users. 96% of those users do not give a cent to Dropbox....

Microsoft and Google’s increasingly captivating competitive dance took another turn on July 29 with the announcement of a search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo. The deal could create a viable competitor to Google–or even more enticingly build very different kinds of growth businesses. The move is a clear attempt by Microsoft to intrude on Google’s […]

The intersection of technology and the physical economy is about to ramp up.

A few weeks before Steve Jobs passed away, I was at Apple having lunch with a leader there. We revisited the well-known story of Jobs returning to an almost-bankrupt Apple. Jobs could have tried to maximize profits by squeezing every cent out of each of the existing product lines. But instead, he led the charge […]

Are big pow-wows really adding any new ideas to our work?

Research shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear.

A little more than a week after buying the iPad, I returned it to Apple. The problem wasn't the iPad exactly, though it has some flaws. The problem was...

After several failed attempts, Microsoft and Yahoo finally decided on a partnership to take on the search king Google. The new venture transforms them from being runners up to being a strong contender in the field. It also benefits advertisers in two ways. First, Google has been a dominant force in the industry with almost […]

When it first launched, I couldn't figure out how Apple was positioning the iPad. Was it meant to be a laptop replacement or a complementary device? It...

With generative AI, anyone can code. Here’s how to help your enterprise embrace this change.

Effective solutions will be grounded in collaboration, not disruption.

When we think of companies associated with great customer experience, Microsoft is rarely the first to come to mind. However, with the release of Office 2007, Microsoft demonstrated newfound commitment to delivering software that delights. In his excellent presentation on the design of the user interface for Microsoft Office 2007, lead designer Jensen Harris depicts […]

Today, Black entrepreneurs receive less than 1% of venture capital.