By John
27 June 2007
10:51 am
Location: Flying to Atlanta
This month I had the pleasure of chatting with David Clark of MIT and a few other folks at the MIT Media Lab. In the course of our dialog, David raised an interesting observation about the fact that we, as an industry, are not creating leaders that are revolutionaries. Instead of creating the future in a disruptive manner, we are tied to preserving the status quo and, as such, are hamstrung with either poor prior architectures and technical decisions or with technologies that simply are not able to be adapted to the present and future technology environment. David and some others are even proposing that the Internet ...
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By John
22 June 2007
12:11 pm
Location: Ottawa, Canada
Over the last six months, I’ve been talking primarily about our technology vision and strategy for rebuilding Nortel into the great company it has historically been. A complementary effort to that is making sure we get our story out. So, I thought it might be interesting for you to hear from my colleague Lauren Flaherty, Nortel’s Chief Marketing Officer, who’s been working aggressively to rebuild Nortel’s brand.
I’ll be posting my next entry this coming Wednesday.
Lauren Flaherty
There's been lots of enthusiastic discussion on this blog and others about what Nortel should be doing and recently some ...
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By John
12 June 2007
6:27 pm
Location: Boston
We just completed our first annual Nortel Technical Conference, held last week in Boston from June 4-7. This conference is one of several initiatives we’ve undertaken within the technology community over the last year to reassert our technology leadership and commitment to transforming the industry.
CEO Mike Zafirovski with conference participants
For 112 years, this company has been involved in the creation and delivery of the most advanced telecommunications technology in the world – and has fundamentally helped shape the industry as we know it today. But, for the past five or so years, the company has been somewhat distracted from that effort as the result of a host of ...
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