Building a Platform: Big Data Considerations
Organizations that embrace data and analysis will do far better than those that don’t.
Category: Platforms
How Platforms Lead to Big Data
The most successful companies today realize that data is critical to their success.
Understanding Contemporary Platforms
How they differ from traditional technology marketplaces like eBay or Craigslist.
Proprietary APIs: A New Tool in the Age of the Platform
A new arrow in the quiver.
On Microsoft, Android, and Platform Thinking
Cats and dogs living with each other.
Android Fragmentation: A Dataviz on Platform Strategy
An interesting way of manifesting Android’s Wild Wild West.
The Invisible Cloud
Thoughts on the continued evolution of cloud computing.
The Near Future Interview
Twelve minutes on what artists can learn from platforms.
How Platform Thinking Can Improve Healthcare
Healthcare is ripe for the very type of disruption that platforms can effect.
2014: Year of the Platform Revolution?
Is this the year that every company embraces platform thinking?
My New Book
Analytics: The Agile Way—my eighth book—is out.
Featured Talk: How to Create a Culture of Analytics
A 50-minute talk about Big Data and what we can learn from Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, and Google.
Comment Policy
I welcome and even encourage critical discourse on this site. I will, however, douse comments with hydrochloric acid if they descend into inappropriate language, disrespectful behavior, excessive self-promotion, or personal attacks.