Thought Leadership

Embracing the Local Customer and Market: “De-coupling” is the new reality of global business

In the ever-evolving landscape of 21st century international business, the era of traditional globalization, as we once knew it, is over! Provocative you say? Yes, I understand the process of increasing interconnectedness and interdependence among countries, economies, cultures, and societies has indeed transformed the world. It’s raised the world’s overall living standard and brought millions of its […]

De-centralized healthcare is coming …… fast!!!

I find it interesting how rapidly things can change, may it be an entire industry, the landscape of a city or the inevitable graying of a head of hair, being surprised when these events occur even while thinking your eyes never drifted away. The most dramatic of these shifts can be triggered by externalities that […]

The Futility of Chasing “Unicorns”

Baseball has long been a sport that values home runs and grand slams (home runs hit while there are already 3 players on base) above all else, with fans and sports analysts alike often focusing on the big hits as the ultimate measure of a player’s worth. However, a sophisticated baseball enthusiast knows that this […]

What’s the Secret to Success: Collaboration

This is the inaugural entry for a series of articles I will publish on the topic of Collaboration. Collaboration becomes ever more critical in the current environment of continuous technology changes, increasing expectations of customers and seemingly regular disruptions in the economic, political and social order. Looking back we lived in a very different world […]

Enterprise Mobility: The Key for a Company’s Development

What is Enterprise Mobility? How can your company benefit from it? Tigo Business Forum in Guatemala City promoted new ways of adapting technology to your production chain. By Louisa Reynolds, estrategiaynegocios.net Enterprise mobility as a new global trend was the main subject of the second edition of Tigo Business Forum 2015, which had the participation […]

Trends: Enterprise Mobility and Apps for Social Change

By Soy502 During several hours, great gurus of technological entrepreneurship shared with Guatemalan entrepreneurs in Tigo Business Forum, whose main figure was Steve Wozniak, co- founder of Apple. During the Forum, Wozniak explained how he designed the Apple I and II, while Steve Jobs was the one who sold and monetized his ideas, but neither […]

Tigo Business Forum 2015

This week, I had the privilege, as President of Global Kinetics, to speak at Tigo Business Forum 2015 in Guatemala City (hub.tigobusiness.com.gt; #tbf15). This is an annual symposium where Tigo Guatemala (www.tigo.com.gt) hosts a networking event aimed at regional CEOs and CFOs to discuss key technology topics relevant to emerging technologies impacting businesses across the […]

Ready or Not, Here Comes the “Third Big Wave” of the Internet – The Internet of Things

(co-written with Robert Westacott from the Enterprise Mobility Exchange) An Ever-Connected Ecosystem According to the Harvard Business Review, “IoT is expected to connect 28 billion ‘things’ to the internet by 2020, ranging from wearable devices such as smartwatches to automobiles, appliances, and industrial equipment.” Take a moment if you will to re-read that statement. Let […]

Poland Day in Silicon Valley 2015

This week, I had the honor, as President of Global Kinetics, to participate with and speak at the 2015 Poland Day in Silicon Valley event. This is an annual symposium where the US-Polish Trade Council (www.usptc.org) hosts “a networking event aimed at enhancing collaboration between science and business in the context of cross-regional cooperation between […]

Enterprise Mobility – Lots of Hype but Where’s the Spending?

Ok sure, mobility is a white hot topic in the enterprise space. But, for all the hype & rhetoric, are enterprises really opening up their purses and spending at levels matching this level of noise? As someone who has been at the forefront of the enterprise mobility space for the past several years, my own […]