It was recently recommended to me that I pick up a copy of “Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years” published in 2008 by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui. Fascinating book so far – as usual, bought the book wirelessly while I was having […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): On July 28th, 2010, Adobe announced it’s intention to acquire Switzerland-based Day Software for approximately $240 Million USD. (see press release from Adobe) The Past, Present and Future of Adobe With the acquisition of Day Software (highly scalable, standards and open source-oriented [not as deployment/sales model, but as underpinnings]), […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Invention Machine (headquartered in Boston) announced yesterday the availability of Invention Machine Goldfire 6.0 with integrated collaboration and expert identification technologies to further accelerate product innovation. (see press release from Invention Machine) Beyond Individual Innovators Historically, Invention Machine’s Goldfire has been oriented towards providing an individually focused innovation “workbench” […]
Information Architected Market Alert (IAM Alert): Iron Mountain announced yesterday that it had acquired Mimosa Systems, Inc., an enterprise-class content archiving solutions provider, for approximately $112 million in cash. (see press release via Iron Mountain or coverage on TechCrunch) Colliding the Cloud and Premise Iron Mountain is a curious company with a very large installed […]
The second wave of Google Wave invites (outside of the development community it was initially released to in May/June) has been zipping across the web in the last 10 days – with the 8 invites I’d waved on twitter being snapped in minutes, and similar pleas for Wave invites lighting up the trending topics on […]