Growth Entrepreneurship

Jimmy Carter, George Washington, and the 7 presidents who were entrepreneurs

The Top 20 Entrepreneurs awarded with the highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom

David Rubenstein Awarded the 2025 Presidential Medal of Freedom

Is AI a top 10 great innovation? See the complete list of most impactful innovations.

Uncover interesting AI past, present and future history with modern innovations, personal anecdotes, milestones, and key figures.

Uncover the complex world of human decision-making and 'decision baggage'. Consider whether decision support tools including AI can help.

Learn how to achieve market leadership by mastering 1 of 3 value disciplines: Operational Excellence, Product Leadership, Customer Intimacy.

In today’s digital age, trusted information  is the cornerstone of effective decision-making. It's also an essential ingredient in the...

What is a Snake Oil Salesman? According to Wikipedia, " snake oil salesman " is a common expression used to describe someone who sells,...

A new proven and trustworthy resources directory for veterans entrepreneurs is now available. As part of the post event follow-up to...

New businesses starts are at rates we’ve never seen before, reversing a 40-year decline. Startup numbers have gone from 2.5 million in...

There is no denying that established companies are being disrupted faster than ever before. The Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship*...

There are a lot of points of view emerging on artificial intelligence. Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and others have been vocal on the...

One of the best books on business strategy is The Art of War by Sun Tzu. It was written sometime around 512 BC … and is actually about...

I was a slow runner as a boy (jokes to a minimum please).  I hated playing those backyard games where I had to chase people around. I was...

Throughout the industrial age, there have been breakthrough innovation that has changed everything. The History of Innovation Way back...

Let me say upfront that I was rooting for Golaith, not David. I was recently asked to speak about some of IBM’s intrapreneurship...

The first time I heard of Africa was probably my mother saying, “clean your plate, there are children starving in Ethiopia,” at the...

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their now-famous expedition. The initial goal was to find a...

If you are like me, when you hear the word innovation you imagine big things … putting a man on the moon … flying cars … low-cost...

At a recent speaking engagement, I was asked if there was a quick way to tell if an organization has an innovation problem. The...

The great business management philosopher Yogi Berra once said, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”...

The word entrepreneur is more than 150 years old, having come into English from French in 1828. But it was not until comparatively...

Doctor George Shearer practiced medicine in central Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1878 (in the Dillsburg area). He was a pillar of the...

Those of you who know me, know that I have spent my career as both an Entrepreneur and more recently … an Intrapreneur .   I have also...

I had lunch recently with my good friend and local entrepreneurial legend Ching-Ho Fung.  Ching-Ho was the Chairman of Parature until the...

Traditionally, Doctors have been oriented toward diagnosing and treating individual organ systems. Clinical trials and medical research...

If you are in the healthcare industry, you know you are facing a number of significant challenges. First and foremost, you are being...

When I think of how most healthcare organizations are analyzing their clinical data today … I get a mental picture of the old depression...

In my last blog post, Healthcare and ECM – What’s Up Doc? , I wrote about using ECM-based content analytics technology to help accelerate...

This is one of those industry-centric topics everyone can relate to … we all need healthcare and we’ll all use it at some point in our...

When I was a wee lad … back in the 60s … I used to rush home from elementary school to watch the re-runs on TV. This was long before...

As most of you know I have been periodically posting some of the really fascinating top 100 innovations of the past 100 years as part of...

ECM and BPM evil doers beware! The days of creeping requirements … endless application rollout delays … one-size fits all user...

Nearly all the companies our grandparents admired have disappeared. Of the top 25 industrial corporations in the United States in 1900,...

This week was a reminder of how technology can aid in our nation’s defense as we struck a major blow against terrorism. Most people don’t...

In my continuing series of IBM at 100, I turn to our data processing heritage with the IBM 1401 Data Processing System (which was long...

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) In the past, I have whipped out my ECM powered crystal ball to pontificate about the future of...

History of the Universal Product Code (UPC) In my continuing series of IBM at 100 achievements … this is one of my favorites of all the...

Jeopardy! Day 3 Update If you are a technology person, you had to be impressed.  We all know who won by now so I won’t belabor it. Ken...

With the looming Jeopardy! challenge competition involving IBM Watson , I am feeling proud of my association with IBM. In part because...

How can the same technology used to play Jeopardy! give you better business insight? “The technology behind Watson represents the future...

What is so fascinating about a Computer System vs. Quiz Show?  The popularity of America’s favorite quiz show, Jeopardy!, stems from the...

Does anyone really like searching for stuff?  It conjures up images of looking through old boxes in the attic to find that one thing you...

It’s that time of the year when all of the prognosticators, futurists and analysts break out the crystal balls and announce their...