Currently, the news is flashing with markers about the upcoming recession. Inversion of yield curves and the slowing increase of the interest rates are only two of the items frequently mentioned in the press. However, while the articles usually look at the consumer and investor side of the issue, the business side is often untouched….
Month: March 2019
The Open Internet – Still a Place for New Ideas
A week ago, I had the pleasure of judging a business competition. Young men and women, between 16 and 25 presented their plans for the next great business, including both their ideas, competitive advantage, sale strategy, and marketing design. It was remarkable to see, how many of these potential startups would rely on an open…
Effective Leadership
A few years ago, a new TV Series was making its way through US Television. “Undercover Boss” The premises of the show was, that the C-Officer of a company would go into the day to day work of the employees to discover the inner workings of the company. Hilarity ensured. However, the more profound message…
Debate about Open Source, Free Code and Corporate Leadership
In the last couple of days the debate about Open Source Licenses and the usage of Open Source Software by Cloud Vendors, Amazon in particular, has broken open into the mainstream technology news. With the MariaDB CEO[https://www.zdnet.com/article/mariadb-ceo-accuses-large-cloud-vendors-of-strip-mining-open-source/] leveling criticism at Amazon and Redis Labs[https://www.businessinsider.com/redis-labs-source-available-license-2019-2] doing away with Open Source Licenses on some of their code,…