Rob Enderle

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 One of the things that I’ve found interesting is how Tesla, a firm that didn’t exist a decade ago, was able to completely disrupt the automotive market by bringing out the first fully electric car. More Apple-like in terms of buying experience, service, customer loyalty and […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 With 2015 almost behind us, it’s time to look ahead to the amazing things that we will likely be hit upside the head with in 2016. You see, here in the tech space, we aren’t satisfied with just screwing up your work week. We want you to know […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 First, I hope you are reading this from home and not as one of the poor saps that has to come in and work over the holidays. You know, years ago, I was in Internal Audit and we had to help close off the year; vacations (well, even […]

When I look at Microsoft vs. Apple in the previous decade, it was as if Microsoft looked right at the data and didn’t see why Apple was kicking its butt. This decade, at least with PCs and business tablets, the opposite may be true. You see, it was really clear when the iPad first came […]

CES Announces the Most Innovative Tech Products for 2016 When the year ends, I start to look back at products that I really liked and really hated. The BlackBerry PRIV fell into the former group and showcases how you can blend a business focus with a consumer OS and get a decent result. I’ve been […]

BYOD for the CIO: Maximize Productivity While Maintaining Security Are managed upgrades a thing of the past? CDW just released its numbers on Windows 10 upgrades and while it found that the majority of IT folks, 79 percent, had upgraded their own machines, only 30 percent run or plan to run Windows 10 pilots in […]

Tipping the Data Breach Odds in Your Favor Earlier this month, Varonis issued a sizzling note analyzing the Sony breach that would have likely done far better at Halloween than Christmas because it is one scary piece of work. It walks through the process that likely occurred for the massive Sony breach, which ended the […]

4 Ways IT Can Better Align Itself to Fulfill Business Needs Yahoo has announced that it is going to do a reverse divestiture, keeping the Alibaba holding it was planning to spin off and instead spinning off its core business. From a financial perspective, this idea looks really good, but that is assuming the firm […]

It’s interesting that, in many ways, Android represented an incomplete version of Microsoft’s Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish strategy, used so successfully against Lotus in the 1980s. It came in as a virtual copy of iOS and did Apple a lot of damage. But, as with all things, Google seemed to lose interest and momentum. Now, […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2016 I’ve been looking at the EMC/Dell merger very closely and I see two parts of the soon to be combined company that together should make Dell and EMC stronger. They have nothing to do with products, supply chain, executive leadership or organizational structure, which is where we typically […]

Many lessons can be learned from the mistakes tech companies have made over the last several decades. Microsoft Zune teaches us that it is foolish to enter a market dominated by another company if you are unwilling to spend or do the things necessary to displace that larger company. A whole host of companies have […]

How to Be a Winner: 5 Keys to Achieving Big Goals This week, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo’s CEO Marissa Mayer is soon to be the next ex-Yahoo CEO. But, unless some major changes are made in Yahoo’s board, she won’t be the last. This isn’t an uncommon problem right now; you […]