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Storage -- Worry About It the Day After Tomorrow
We finished this analysis on storage types/applications over the weekend and Apple decided to finally talk about all their new devices and everyone (we mean everyone) jumped on the tablet bandwagon. We'll look at the area shortly but right now we can only say every bit of storage folks can make/ship is being used...then some! Right now let's look at the leading storage offerings -- flash, hard drive, clould (don't let em kid you the cloud is still hard drive). But only you can determine which storage option is best for you in each of your applications -- work in progress, valuable, super valuable, irreplaceable. Weigh the costs/risks and store accordingly. Don't wait till the Day After Tomorrow.

Technology is So Passé … It’s All About Fashion
We looked at the stuff at CES...at CTIA...at NAB...at all the shows and media coverage. There was an epiphany (gotta love that word). The PC/CE/communications/content industry isn't about technology...it's fashion! It's what's hot...what's not. Notebooks...no netbooks...no smartphones...no ebooks...no tablets. Local storage...centralized storage...personal storage...cloud storage. Your next product, service can be hot, cold, dead in a month. We flip faster than skirts rise and fall. There are no bold , ah ha predictions here but at least you'll know why you change phones, computers (whatever) more often than you change cars. What's it gonna be tomorrow? Don't ask the buying public(s)..invent it!!!! -- borrowed from John Doerr (come on what do you think fashion is? Right creative borrowing!).

After 150+ Years, 3D Is About Ready to Come Home
Go to a content conference, convention -- heck any conference, any convention. What's the leading subject of conversation? OMG 3D movies are fantastic. 3D video games are so real. Did you hear what Sir Howard said the other day? Yep we're all going to have 3D TV by the end of next year...all of us!!! Gee and we're still paying for our big screen HD TV sets (all of them!). DreamWorks Katzenberg, Sony, Panasonic and "them" are hellbent to make certain you get the economy moving in the right direction. Don't get us wrong. This round of 3D movies are much better than the stuff of the 50s. Notice most of them are animated films? Easier to turn 2D into 2.5 or 3D movies. Games? Kids love em.

A Gazillion Tweets, but What Makes the Cash Register Ring?
Tweeting gets consumers all fired up. YouTubing is what a pries the credit cards out of the billfold/purse. Facebooking is where it is at to bring seller/buyer together. Blogs have the real street cred where serious people go to find out the scoop. Robust web sites are an absolute have to if you're going to be serious about separating a consumer from his/her dollars. If you think consumers are confused you should be on the other side of the desk! Marketing people are having a helluva time efficiently and effectively reaching the buying public -- corporate and individual -- to sell hardware, software, solutions. It's horrible in the store because everyone is hollering price. Sales people seldom know enough about the individual product to be of real help. Your mom doesn
ITV…Does Art Imitate Life or Life Imitate Art?
Tellywood and manufacturers have picked the team they want to be on and have started the game to determine who will be the league winners in the next generation DVD series. Problem is there is no one in the stands. Consumers seem happy to watch the game they know. After all, current DVD recorders, players, media is very economic. Millions of viewing options are available. No one has done a good job of showing them why the new game is better -- unless you call the news releases and press conferences proof. Boy looks like it is going to be a long season.

Free Stuff -- Someone Pays Even for the Free Lunch
There is a whole group of people who grew up on the Internet that believes everything that is out there should be free. Stewart Brand set the stage back in 1984 at the first Hacker's Conference when he said -- Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ... That tension will not go away. The person who stole the pre-release of Wolverine thought it was neat that he (or she) could give it away free. Millions viewed it -- free. Millions more refused knowing that if they really wanted to see it they should pay someone for it. At the end of the day an organization has to put money in the cash register so bills will be paid and people will have food/shelter. There is no such thing as a free lunch
Game Entrapment Hard Core Gamers Taking a Back Seat
It seems so innocent, the way the video game developers suck you in. First it is an increasingly aggressive game system pricing (cheaper!). Then comes the rave reviews from "experts" and fun, exciting packaging...packages almost look wholesome and heroesque don't they? Then you begin the play. Casually for a few minutes at first. Then what they heck just an hour. Suddenly the sun is coming up. So you get another game or different version for your portable system or smartphone (just to stay sharp of course). Before we knew it our wife and daughter were beating us...regular! It is so humiliating. There goes all of the fun for another male bastion...sheess !!!

You Can Never Be Too Good Looking, Too Slim, Have Too Much Storage
If you were one of the fortunate few who got his/her iPad 2 lord it over the other folks who are waiting for ...something else. Of course they and you also carry around your smartphone, notebook, other mobile devices. They're too important not to be without...and the information they hold. Good thing is all that data, content you're creating doesn't make the things weigh any more except when you have to get a few external hard drives to carry it all. Who knew you just had to have 8-10 four drawer filing cabinets of stuff with you but...you do. Could put all the content at home but that's getting pretty full. Could put it in the cloud but that's a little scarey. All storage people can say is thank you for creating, storing, sharing.

Cloud Computing -- Computing Without the Hardware…Software…Support…Fun
The concept is great everything is handled for you in the cloud...you can focus on work and not updating, rebooting your system (yeah like Macs don't have that problem too). You can grab/store anything/everything and never have to worry about buying a new HD or losing your storage. It's all done in the cloud. Problems are though: - governments have just relaxed the laws on tapping into your (or someone else's system because...well they can - sounds like Startrek..."To bravely go where no man has gone before..." Nope think we'll be #2 - don't clouds often hang around mountains and if your work is flying through one of them...WHAP! - of course you know who's in charge of the cloud and maintaining "your" computing, "your" data/content

My Biggest Obstacles
Meeting the Carvers was not by definition an ‘obstacle’, but it was something of a culture shock. It was my first visit to Africa. The Carver groups made me feel very welcome, it was a great experience and I have been back to Tabaka many times.

How My Company Got Started
Entrepreneur Paul Young talks about what led him to create his company, Craft Village, what it takes to succeed, and his advice for others.
It’s Not About the Personal Device, It’s About the Personal Content
People are climbing all over each other to get a "new" smartphone. Folks can't get enough of using their iPad/tablet. Wife loves her Kindle ereader. We can't wait for the new Ultrabooks. Big screen TV sales are...flat. What's wrong with this picture? Some folks say the phones/tablets are killing the PC...wrong. Computers are changing. So are our many screens. In a few years - let's say 20 years - you won't be carrying around a computer or a tablet or a phone...no need. The computer will just be wherever you are. The screen? Same. Your content/stuff? Ditto. Privacy? Oh yeah, how's that workin for you??

Tap-n-Go is Good for Everyone But Consumers, Retailers
We just got back from holiday and discovered we had lost/misplaced a billfold we use solely on vacations. It had my scuba diving cards, really old family pictures, couple of hundred in it...nothing traumatic but still a pain. Telco folks have an answer for that turn your smartphone into a mobile wallet. We've "lost" more phones than we have billfolds. You can pick someone's pocket but can't sit across the street and hack it. But who is the mobile wallet going to benefit? Banks will get their money faster, mobile service folks will get a cut, stores buy new equipment that will be "temporarily" out of service, you can whip by the cashier faster to get back to your Facebook page or Twitter feed...whee!!!!

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A Silver Century Is Colouring Our Labour Markets
We are on the cusp of a huge change and yet only a few can see it. According to The Conference Board of Canada’s most recent research finding, “A rising proportion of old and “very old” (those 80 years of age or more) citizens will be the defining demographic trend in most countries. A second trend, the rapid fall in fertility rates, will create societies with fewer young people. In Western countries, the labour surplus of the last quarter of the 20th century will become history in the first quarter of the next century.” Indeed, the 21st century will be the silver century worldwide.

Succeeding in a Flat World - How to gain an advantage when the playing field is level
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Concluding Remarks: Enhancing Africa’s Trade: From Marginalization to an Export-Led Approach to Development
In the 19th and 20th centuries, trade has by and large been an engine of economic growth for the global economy. It has also acted as an engine of growth for particular national economies -- in the 19th century, Canada and Australia and in the 20th century, Japan. In recent years, trade has acted as an engine of growth for the newly industrializing countries of Southeast Asia, the so-called "Gang of Four", namely, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore.
Sorting out
Gavin Potter says, “The 20th century was about sorting out supply, the 21st is going to be about sorting out demand.”
Manage or Coach
In today's fast changing marketplace there is more need for independent thought. 20th Century Management practices will not work in 21st Century business!
Are You Selling Pennies, Dollars or Value?
What are you selling? If you answered products or services, that may be the incorrect answer in today's 21st century or even 20th century. To increase sales you may just need to change the answer to that question.
Vikings with Machine Guns: Is your Unique Value Proposition, unique in your customer's eyes?
Pretty powerful combination you might think. What would Brian Boru have done faced with 10th century marauders wielding 20th century weapons? He would not have had a hope! That is what dynamic imagery does for advertising and marketing. It provides an unstoppable combination that is guaranteed to get results. So what's missing?

Being authentic in sales
The 20th century approach of one-upmanship, although still encouraged by many traditional sales managers, seems to be slowly retreating into the shadows of the past as crude and old-fashioned. Polar opposite to the latter, but just as unproductive..
What Are You Like at Growing People?
Too many managers are still using 20th century traditions for 21st century staff development. The result? Rapid staff turnover, excessive absenteeism and staff conflicts. We need new ways to look at old problems. People are a part of nature, so what can we learn from growing plants?
The Role of Organizational Design in 21st Century Organizations.
The world is pressed on all sides by a diminishing full-time workforce, differing cultural, generational, political, and religious views and the organization of the 21st century must be more agile than its 19th and 20th century ancestors. The role of organizational design is imperative to how the organization deals with challenges it now faces. Today’s organizational design will require an ability to share ideas, knowledge, resources and skills across organizational, generational and cultural boundaries within and outside of the organizational system for the purpose of achieving desired goals. This article addresses the role of organizational design in 21st century organization.
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