Topic: Business
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Eamonn Kelly, the CEO & president of the Global Business Network, and the author of "Powerful Times: Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World." He takes us through the major impacts on the world today. It's his contention that we are in the midst of a great leap forward, not unlike what history has called The Enlightenment. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
To most of us, online gambling means email spam and other annoyances. But to Peter Marcus and his customers it's a $6 billion/year legitimate business that represents more than 5% of the total gambling market worldwide. You may be surprised at the legitimacy of this operation. (Did you imagine that they might be audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers?)
Every enterprise using information technology today needs to be concerned about security. As IT becomes more important to business, the number and severity of security threats also increase. Daniel Blum of Burton Group kicks off the Security stream of the Catalyst 2005 conference with this overview of topics in IT security. [Burton Group Catalyst audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ann Winblad, co-founding partner of Hummer-Winblad Venture Partners and Laura Merling, CEO of SDForum. They discuss the global reality of both funding new software and then building it. Is it surprising? All roads lead to Silicon Valley. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
Salesforce.com is well-known for its hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service, and its on-demand customer service offering, Supportforce.com. But Salesforce.com has set its sights higher than hosted CRM and Customer Service for small companies. In this conversation with Supernova host Kevin Werbach, Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff outlines the company's larger strategy. [Supernova 2005 Audio from IT Conversations]
What is a distributed business - is it having employees from all corners of the globe, clients or consumers in many markets or suppliers from various areas? According to this panel from the 2005 Supernova conference, distributed business is all this and more. Learn how any business, large or small can take advantage of new technologies and philosophies to become more successful. [Supernova 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Now ten years old, and with 975,000 independent vendors, Amazon.com is one of the classic long-tail online companies. Its new CTO, Werner Vogels, talks openly with Halley Suitt about the company, their policies for making data available to others (while protecting customers' privacy, and the state of search engines. Werner says that search is still in its infancy, but it's like dancing bears: the novelty alone makes it look pretty good.
Internally, Amazon.com is "organized chaos," deploying small teams to implement new systems. Externally, they've learned valuable lessons from the knowledge of their customers'reviews to build out a large-scale network
of shared intelligence. [Memory Lane with Halley Suitt audio from IT Conversations]
At a special presentation to the SDForum, John Markoff discusses his new book, " What the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer." How did the the licensing of the transistor Silicon Valley? Did Moore's Law come from Gordon Moore or was it borrowed from somone else else? And how did LSD and the Vietnam war help start the PC revolution? This is Part 1 of a two-part presentation. Part 2 will be published shortly. [SDForum Distinguished Speaker Series audio from IT Conversations]
John Seely Brown is known for his work on business ecosystems. In this relatively short but focused talk from Supernova 2005 he covers the emotive topic of off-shoring and highlights the advantages that can be gained from understanding that it is never only a simple question of wage arbitration. The examples of innovative business practices he discusses leads to a picture of a global change in business discourse and a re-evaluation of the current definition of 'the firm'. [Supernova 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Dr. Moira Gunn interviews author and media and presentation coach, Jerry Weissman, about answering tough questions. In these high-tech days, when everything is permanently on the record, this former producer for Mike Wallace tells us what does and doesn't work. [Tech Nation audio from IT Conversations]
