TED2012 Day 1 “LittleBits” for big dreams

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Zia Yusuf

Here we go again, TED 2012 started yesterday in Long Beach. I decided this year to do a short blog post every day on the talk or conversation that most inspired me.  Yesterday we had the amazing TEDFellows make their presentations.  Wonderful to see these ideas being presented in such a passionate and clear way. [...]

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HW vs. SW: Do you have to choose ?

Posted on August 19, 2011 by Zia Yusuf

Yesterday’s decision by HP to sell of its PC business prompted me to consider this question of HW vs. SW. I believe the decision by HP to sell of its PC business is the right one (IBM made the same decision in 2005 and was able to transform the company into a highly profitable services [...]

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Rethinking the Technology & IT Analyst Industry

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Zia Yusuf

Over my last twelve years working as a senior executive in the technology industry I have had an opportunity to engage with a broad section of technology and IT analysts and researchers – both from established firms (eg. Gartner, Forrester etc.), smaller more focused firms (eg. Altimeter Group) and of course the more recent phenomena [...]

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A Growth Strategy for Yahoo – the (Social) Enterprise ?

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Zia Yusuf

Yahoo is a company that has always intrigued me.  Over the past few years we have all read about the issues facing Yahoo – lack of a clear strategy, management challenges, the on again off again romance with Microsoft and a stock price that has gone from about $35 about 5 years ago to $16 [...]

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