“Strong personalities have strong opinions, and most of the time, those opinions may differ. Being able to resolve those conflicts is challenging,” said Harry Ruda, the founder and CEO of Softricity. Ruda was one of four panelists who discussed how they define, create and maintain high performance organizations.

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“The pace of paradigm shift is growing exponentially,” said author and futurist Ray Kurzweil in his keynote speech at TiECON East 2006. Kurzweil talked about exponential growth of information technology, what comes after Moore’s Law, and reverse-engineering the human brain.

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S. Ramadorai considers a round of questions about serving markets and building businesses in an increasing complex global marketplace.

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Harvard Business Professor Clayton Christensen says companies shouldn’t base their strategy on the customer as much as on the job the customer needs the product for. When you hire a milkshake what do you expect it to do? Check out this podcast for the answer.

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Leaders in Life Sciences engage in a panel discussion on the state of the industry in India and the practicalities of international business plans in the perspective of globalization.

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Howard Anderson speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson after his Keynote speech at TiECON East 2006 in Boston. Anderson says, “It would be nice to say that we always move to advance more technical, but China’s going there too. We’ve always pushed out some of the labor intensive businesses to the ...

Howard Anderson of the Yankee and Battery Ventures delivers an edgy and dynamic look at the future roles of India and China in the global economy of the not too distant future, and the history of global business culture in Asia and America.

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Shyno Chacko works with ASHOKA, a non-profit group seeking out and promoting Social Entrepreneurship. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talks with Chacko about her work with the group and the changes they’ve facilitated the world round.

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“Is the Internet going to displace broadcast media?” asked Josh Bernoff, VP and Principal Analyst with Forrester Research. Bernoff moderated a discussion about digital media convergence in which panelists from content and distribution companies discussed opportunities and challenges in the digital media space.

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Hatim Tyabji, Executive Chairman of Bytemobile and Best Buy Board Member, finished out the opening keynote at TiECON 2006. In a speech peppered with inspirational advice for entrepreneurs, Tyabji spoke about building corporate culture in the new “flat world” of IT.

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“Wireless is really an all-encompassing concept,” said Jon Auerbach, former Wall Street Journal technology reporter and currently GP at highland Capital Partners. Auerbach was one of the panelists on the “Emerging Trends in Wireless” session at TiECON East 2006. Abhi Ingle, Cingular Wireless; Steve Nicolle, Tatara Systems; DP Venkatesh, mPortal; ...

“In astronomy it turns out that amateur astronomers are finding comets and asteroids before NASA and all the science labs can because the data is being sent out to the community and they can search and look in a distributed way much much faster than the labs can on their ...

S. Ramadorai says sustaining quality and employee competency is one of the big challenges in the industry, especially as the playing field evens out around the world. He is the CEO and Managing Director of the $2.25 billion software company Tata Consultancy Services Limited. “In terms of I.T. services and ...

“The flat world will challenge cherished beliefs,” said Frank Douglas, Executive Director of the newly formed MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation. In this podcast, you’ll hear Douglas’ keynote speech on the challenges and opportunities for biopharmacology in a flat world at TiECON East in Boston. Until his recent retirement from ...

“There ain’t much learning in the second kick of a mule,” said Vice Provost of Harvard University and Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Howard Stevenson. His keynote speech on developing predictive intelligence opened the TiECON East 2006 conference in Boston. In this podcast, you’ll hear Al ...

You’ve heard on stock shows on TV and radio, “Do your due diligence.” That goes for the pros even more so. On this TiECON East panel experts like Chris Felstedt of the Merrill Lynch Hedge Fund Product Group, Dave Furneaux with Kodiak Venture Partners, Greg Locraft at MFS Capital Opportunities ...

Apurv Bagri, Managing Director of the Metdist Group of companies and Chairman of TiE Global, opened the TiECON East 2006 conference in Boston with a talk on globalization and what it means in a flat world. To sum up his fifteen-minute-long talk, Bagri said, “Globalization in a flat world will ...

Boston, June 15-17, 2006:
“Innovating in a Flat World” focuses on issues integral to the growth of private enterprises and non-profits. This year’s event takes place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

PodTech’s John Furrier chats with Sanjay Kadaveru who is promoting the upcoming TiECON East.

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