Posts by: Eric Meredith

Digital Disruption: Find the Disruptions, Go There

Digital Disruption Lesson #5: Go to where the disruptions are. This is the 5th in a five part series on Digital Disruptions. Are you concerned about the Elphaba’s in your business? Elphaba is more commonly known as the Wicked Witch of the…

Digital Disruption: Know the Fundamentals of Your Business

Digital Disruption lesson #4: Know the fundamentals of your business. This is the 4th in a five part series about Digital Disruption. Borders Booksellers operated for more than 40 years, growing from a local Michigan retailer to a national megastore with arguably…

Digital Disruption: You Can’t Move Too Fast!

Digital Disruption lesson #3: You cannot move too fast. This is the third posting in a five part series on Digital Disruption. The world’s economy grew from embryonic nothingness at the dawn of civilization to a global output of $4 trillion by…

Digital Disruption: Lose the Constraints

Digital Disruption Lesson #2: Lose the constraints that restrict your thinking. This is the second in a five part series on Digital Disruption. Greenfields, whiteboards, and blue skies; these are the ingredients of an architect’s daydreams. The solutions I can construct when…

Digital Disruption: Unleash Employee IQ

Digital Disruption Lesson #1: Unleash the IQ of your employees. This is the first in a five part series on Digital Disruption. What does it take to be smart? Are you born smart? Are some people just brighter than others? How can…

Dinner and a Little Disruption

I attended Forrester’s Annual Forum For CIO, EA, Infrastructure & Ops, Security & Risk, and Sourcing Professionals in Washington DC a few weeks ago and had the opportunity to have dinner with Forrester CEO, George Colony. Colony emphasized his message about Digital…

Go Ahead, Offer Me That One More Time

The background: My wife has been a Type 1 Diabetic for 50 years. Most of us have heard of Diabetes but only know half the story - the half that says, if a Diabetic’s blood sugar drops they need something sweet (like…

You Can’t Possibly Read the Emails You Send

Do you actually read your own emails before your send them? Really? Seriously? It’s not possible. It has happened again. I try to be mild mannered. I do, I really really do. But there are days when the surplus of insanity overwhelms…

Usability is Not an Architecture Quality Attribute

The architecture of an application is often evaluated by assessing its quality attributes; things like performance, security, maintainability  and availability. One topic that often surfaces is whether Usability should be considered an architecture quality attribute. No one would dispute the importance of usability…

Johnny Carson as Carnac the Magnificent Architect

Johnny Carson once claimed that his favorite joke went like this: Imagine the African Savanna in late August. In what was a large lake, but is now a relatively small mud-pool sits two hippos. They are submerged to their eyeballs, which appear…

How Do You Measure Up?

One of my life-long idols, Muhammad Ali is quoted as saying, “The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Can you point to a specific situation where you…
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