How do big companies change? What prompts these changes? Do they come from customers, market forces or the leaders within a company? How does everyone align and buy into one vision? Ever wondered about these questions? These questions were the basis of a conversation between Geoffrey Moore and SAP’s Bill McDermott, co-CEO of SAP at [...]

  Bangalore special so far in case you missed listening or watching the interviews in our life, people and ideas channel. Our goal is to highlight Bangalore, a city in rapid transition, while remains of an older and gentler times still exist in pockets of the city. Every Thursday, you can expect to see a [...]

Steve Jobs was in many people’s mind this past weekend during the first Palo Alto International Film Festival. How was Apple formed? That was a question on many people’s mind as they settled down to watch a screening of “Something Ventured,” at the festival. The film is a love story on capitalism is how The [...]

Meet Chris Brogan, who heads Human Business Works. He is a blogger and social media, who helps small business with their social media strategy. His central axiom is all how about building relationships and listening to what others have to say. You can follow Chris on Twitter @chrisbrogan

In early March there was a lot of buzz around Cisco’s press release about how it plans to “forever change the Internet.”  What was this big technology announcement that Cisco was going to make? Could it be a new set-top box? Could it be Cisco would take a leadership role in the last mile access [...]

A few of the magical ingredients of what makes Silicon Valley unique is the easy access to mentors and investors. I turned to Yogen Dalal an engineer-turned entrepreneur-turned venture capitalist to find out the answers to many unanswered questions. Yogen came to Silicon Valley in the early 1970s to study at Stanford University. He is the Managing [...]

That is a demo of Cisco’s TelePresence, which provides an incredible “true-to-life” experience. Sitting around the table at this virtual meeting were people from  different parts of the world. There was no lag and the quality of audio and video was superb. Using Cisco’s TelePresence is a delightful customer experience. Currently Cisco’s TelePresence is deployed in 50 [...]

Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club held a sold out event last evening. About 400 people attended a packed event to listen to a  conversation between Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix and Michael Eisner, CEO of Tonante that creates original content and incubates startups. Before this Eisner was the former CEO of Walt Disney, who turned around the company and [...]

Steve Jobs clearly recognizes the power of storytelling. A consummate marketer Jobs known the art of storytelling, and this Stanford Commencement address is a great example. “I have 3 stories to share,” he says in his introduction. The 3 stories seem to map to birth, life/love and death. The cycle of life. Jobs apparently subscribes to [...]

Over the long Thanksgiving weekend San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom made his first maiden trip to Bangalore, India. Interestingly, for over 100 years San Francisco has been an entry point for Indians, many of whom came from the region of Punjab and were often referred to as Hindus in the early 20th century. Reportedly, the [...]