Anyone who is a fan of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Talking Heads fan will likely remember their song “Cities.” Originally included on the 1979 album “Fear of Music,” it later appeared in the concert movie “Stop Making Sense.” The song not unexpectedly namechecks lots of cities—London (and perhaps not England’s version—it’s described…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] “My Dinner with Andre” is a 1981 movie directed by Louis Malle and starring Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn. The film was critically acclaimed, and it was not because of the action sequences. The 111 minute long movie basically depicts a conversation between two men over dinner. Almost…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Last month marked the 46th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and the first steps by humans on the lunar surface: July 20th, 1969. A lot of monumental change has occurred since this groundbreaking (lunar surface-breaking?) event, but sometimes the differences in times are best brought home…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In our last blog posting, we discussed the fact that predictive review can reduce costs, improve quality and sometimes even save your case but many legal professionals don’t use it because they don’t trust it. A second reason is that they believe predictive review is too difficult and…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] We are swimming in data. According to IBM, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. And it’s growing faster than ever. Ninety percent of the data in the world has been created in the past two years. And “The Internet of Things” will create even more…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] In 2005, if you’d purchased 100 shares of Netflix— remember that company that delivered DVD movies to your mailbox?—it would have cost you a little over $11,000. Not an insubstantial investment—stock analysts already liked the Netflix model, and investors had already priced a lot of future growth in—so…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] Facebook. Twitter. YouTube. Netflix. LinkedIn. Pandora. WordPress. Amazon.com They all have something in common: they are all able to gather and assimilate a tremendous amount of information in seconds, from an immense number of sources, and turn it into revenue. Facebook and LinkedIn assemble data on their users…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] A definition of executive: Someone who has the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect A person with senior managerial responsibility in a business organization Or, according to Forbes ASAP: Someone who wastes 150 hours per year—almost an entire month—searching for lost information. Let’s…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] As Google races to become the first company ever to reach market capitalization of a trillion dollars, a question worth considering becomes: why, exactly is Google worth so much money? It could easily be argued that selling advertising is the reason. Certainly the purchase of YouTube was a terrific business decision, with millions of…
[column width=”1/1″ last=”true” title=”” title_type=”single” animation=”none” implicit=”true”] The concept of the paperless office feels like it has been around for forever. That’s because it actually has been around nearly forever– or at least, ever since the advent of the personal computer. A 1975 Business Week article entitled “The Office of the Future” first predicted the…