Three firms, each once dominant in their industry, are attempting to transform their operations and culture, and while it won’t be clear for a few years whether or not they will succeed, it is fascinating and instructive (and sometimes painful) to watch:
Microsoft, where a long-time, hard-charging number two has taken the reins from the man [...]
Like all large, long-lived organizations that believe they are immune from the brutal force with which technology and innovation reshape the world, the government, and especially the Federal government, struggles to understand whether they should do anything, and if so what, in leveraging the web and sharing information broadly.
(Note: The private sector is replete with [...]
Today’s Wall Street Journal reported on consolidation in LCD manufacturing with the agreement of Innolux Display Corp. to buy Chi Mei Optoelectronics, both of Taiwan, in a $5.3 billion stock deal.
Innolux was founded six years ago by Terry Gou, who also founded and is chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry, the world’s largest ( by [...]
Truth be told, you won’t find 1,028 earlier posts here about the impact of technology on newspapers, just one, but the number of posts and articles written on this topic in the last six months is easily ten times that figure.
Nonetheless, the lead editorial in this morning’s Boston Globe is a good example of those [...]
The Boston Globe is only the latest print mass media publication to wrestle with their cost structure—they are currently losing roughly $1,000,000/week—and with every incident, “Whither newspapers?” turns into “Whither journalism?”
This confuses many things, including what is created (a news story) with the means and form of delivery (ink on paper tossed on to my [...]
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