Rob Enderle

2017 and Beyond: How Digital Innovation Will Impact the World This week, I’m at the Microsoft Windows Creative Edition launch, which is coupled with a heavy dose of Surface updates. What I think is most interesting about this event is that you finally get a sense that software and hardware at Microsoft are working together, […]

Earlier, I wrote about how the Windows 10 Creators Update was focused on helping users create and share 3D objects, drive a new world of video game programming, and improve the speed and effectiveness of communication. I also mentioned how Microsoft is much more tightly connecting the hardware and software, and now I’ll focus on […]

How to Create a Culture of Innovation I’m at Dell EMC World this week and I’m struck by two things. One is that Dell Technologies is acting like one company just weeks after the merger has settled and that that is unprecedented for a merger this size. Actually, it’s unusual for a merger of any […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise This is a big moment for Dell, and Michael Dell in particular. This Dell EMC merger is the biggest and fastest merger I’ve ever seen done. One year ago, Dell announced at Dell World that it was going to attempt to acquire and take EMC private. The […]

Earlier this week, I wrote that the major problem with the Internet of Things (IoT) is that it was mostly done as the “Internet of Thing” not the Internet of Things, as was promised. After I posted that, I was briefed by a company called Stringify, which actually has a fix to this problem. I’ll […]

5 Questions CIOs and CFOs Need to Ask to Prepare for IoT I’ve just finished a string of briefings on IoT technology, and from the companies doing the briefing, you’d think the big problems were processing power, graphics and security. Granted, they got one out of three right because security is clearly a massive problem […]

5 Characteristics Professional IT Consultants Must Possess By now, you know that Yahoo has allegedly been cooperating with the U.S. government at an unprecedented level with broad scans of customer emails. The EU is clearly not amused. I expect Verizon is thinking really hard now, given that this comes after the massive Yahoo breach reported […]

Thanks to the U.S. election, we are getting a rare look at a huge problem that I have observed with many CEOs (and people in general): a nearly rabid need to appear right, without the necessary interest or skills to actually be right. This is called Argumentative Theory and, over the years, I’ve decided that […]

A few years back, I spent a lot of time on affinity programs, which tie the customer more firmly to a brand. If done correctly, they assure customer loyalty. Amazon Prime and airline mileage programs are examples. IT vendor customer affinity efforts often bring the customer on-campus to become more intimately knowledgeable about the vendor. […]

5 Tips to Successfully Plan for IT Modernization BlackBerry is apparently exiting hardware design. While this is a good decision with respect to where the company is today, it reflects on a recurring bad decision that has wiped out once dominant companies like Palm, Netscape and Commodore, and cost CEOs at IBM and Microsoft their […]

9 Rules for Digital Transformation in the Enterprise Stefanie Chiras led off with a personal story of how she moved from education to IBM so that her efforts to empower the individual were leveraged. Her opening remarks were about how we are the architects of the future. What I find interesting about this is that, […]

How to Find Business Value in Your Data Through Modernization I’m at IBM Edge this week with 50K of my closest friends. Tom Rosamilia, SVP of IBM, took the stage first. I’ve known Rosamilia for a few years. He led in the idea of infrastructure as a product for the firm and now controls a […]