From a Different Perspective...

Several Kaiser Permanente executives recently urged  that we stop wasting patients' time.  They cited the ultimately tragic example of J...

For those of us of a certain age, we expected to be living in a Jetsons-type world, complete with flying cars.  That hasn't happened, bu...

Mala Anand, SAP's President and EVP- Analytics,  recently wrote , "data is the fuel for the digital economy."  We generate mor...

A new study in JAMA suggests that nearly one-in-three drugs approved by the FDA between 2001 and 2010 had post-market safety issues, which ...

You've probably heard of IKEA , the international retail giant that is known for its modernist design aesthetic and its clever some-asse...

The woes of the retail industry are well known, and are usually blamed on the impact of the Internet.  Credit Suisse projects that 8,600 br...

Alan Kay recently outlined some of the principles that he thought made Xerox's PARC so successful (if you don't know who Alan Kay ...