Rob Enderle

Last week, IBM’s new CEO Ginni Rometty made a powerful statement at Almaden Labs about IBM’s leadership in R&D but her real message was how IBM is vastly different from every other company in its class. IBM was uniquely designed to be immortal and to achieve this it focuses more on agility and building for […]

Sometimes you can get lost in the marketing rhetoric and lose track of what the real strategy is. It doesn’t help that vendors often don’t share it or that marketing departments are far removed from strategy sessions. But at IBM CEO Ginni Rometty’s investor talk today it was clear that IBM had a secret agenda […]

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, has been doing a lot of things right in her effort to turn around Yahoo. However, it was only a matter of time before she made a big mistake. CEOs are no more perfect than anyone else, and she is inexperienced in the role. Eliminating telecommuting was just such a mistake […]

At CTIA, Samsung announced its SAFE program, designed to make its Android smartphones more acceptable to IT organizations and provide a better alternative to BlackBerry, which has historically been viewed as the most secure of the volume platforms for business.    However, I think Samsung must have missed a meeting because it seems to have completely […]

As I watched the U.S. State of the Union speech this week, I was impressed with regard to how many portions of the talk dealt with improving the technology market and reaffirming it as one of the big revenue generators for the country.  No other industry seemed to get as much positive focus (energy was […]

I was reading with interest today Mary Jo Foley’s piece on Bill Gates’ biggest product regret. It was a rather obscure aspect of Windows Vista that never made it to market, WinFS. It was to revolutionize the desktop and server file system and likely make some classes of database products obsolete. WinFS never made it […]

Back in the 1980s, when Microsoft and Intel first started bonding and created what would, for the next two decades, be the most powerful hardware model, it seemed invincible. But for most of the last decade, it has been anything but as companies like Apple, IBM, and even Google have showcased that optimizing around a […]

I’ve often found it odd when vendors who have a stable and happy customer base panic and suddenly feel they need to chase someone else. That never ends well, which is why I think Apple’s increasing focus on chasing Samsung isn’t turning out so well. RIM did that initially with Apple and darn near kissed […]

This is a big week for Research in Motion. How people perceive this week goes will have a great deal to do with whether RIM survives as an independent company, or at all. You typically get one chance for a makeover at the scale that RIM is attempting. If you get it wrong, well, we […]

Scott Cleland recently wrote a compelling piece on the need for a new national privacy law in the U.S., but I think this particularly genie is out of the lamp. That would only provide limited protection in a legal case; it wouldn’t protect you against losing your family, career or reputation and the three aren’t […]

If we accept argumentative theory and confirmation bias as facts, and I believe both theories are representative of how we approach problem solving, then many of us rightfully view analytics as more of a problem than a solution.    Argumentative theory suggests we use the power of argument to dominate and improve status and we are […]

I was going down a list of failed and problem companies and it occurred to me that the seven sins in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer map pretty well to most of the mistakes that I’ve observed companies make over the years, either as a corporate entity or by their executive staff. As we watch […]