How the iPhone Was Born: Inside Stories of Missteps and Triumphs

How the iPhone Was Born: WSJ 6/25/2017 9:00AM 

On the iPhone’s 10th birthday, former Apple executives Scott Forstall, Tony Fadell and Greg Christie recount the arduous process of turning Steve Jobs’s vision into one of the best-selling products ever made.

Carly Fiorina Faced 'Tough Choices'

The "HP Way" and the change agent.

Carly Fiorina talks about leadership, management, and culture ans her book, 'Tough Choices:' 





"When culture becomes convention, then something has to change."

"...sometimes the toughest choices you have to make are to fire somebody, not because they're not getting results, but because their values and judgment are inconsistent with what you say you stand for. The toughest personnel choices I have ever had to make in my career are where I have had to deal with abusive or dishonest people and, let's be honest with each other, abusive, dishonest people get results in business."

"I was taught long ago that values are what guide your behavior when no one's looking and you think no one will find out."

Data & Retail

You may not physically see software and data bases and algorithms, but firms' investment in IT and their use of it is just as important as their investment in physical capital.  There has been a shift from data as what and where we sell to who buys and why.  Technology is changing the way retailers do businesses with some brands combining analytics and mobile apps to learn about their customers and giving their customers reason to benefit from their snooping. 

In this March 7th video (four minutes and twenty five seconds), the FT's Bede McCarthy discusses the introduction of technology on to the high street (i.e., the downtown shops) with Scott Morrison of Diesel UK and Computer Weekly's Bryan Glick: 

 

IT & Banks

What has IT got to Marketing?  Or banking for that matter?  With a bank, when you think infrastructure and operations, think IT.  

 

In this February 6th, 2013 video, Butch Leonardson, Boeing Employees' Credit Union's chief information officer, tells Paul Taylor, the FT's Connected Business editor, about the opportunities and challenges facing the CIO of this leading credit union, and how IT supports BECU's strategic objectives.  The video lasts 5 minutes and 17seconds.