Insights + Opinions

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...

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

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...

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

Considering it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the timing of this post is hopefully helping a very important cause.  For reasons I...

It has been said that “data” is the new “oil” of the 21st century. That is certainly true in healthcare where a unique opportunity exists...

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...

Do you listen to your customers? No, really! Of course, everyone answers “yes” when asked this question.  So much so … that the question...

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...