For the month of October, I have decided to highlight a company as the Disruptive Leader of the Month. NComputing has been on my radar for awhile as one of the few for-profit startup companies that are targeting emerging markets and the digital divide, but I had not looked at them as a serious [...]
The initial $100 price tag of the XO Laptop from Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) created quite a furor when it was first announced three years ago. At the time, the cheapest laptops were hovering around $400 to $500.
This subject has been rehashed many times in the press and the blogosphere, but reading [...]
I have mentioned Safaricom in this blog several times as an example of a classic disruptive leader and touted their M-Pesa text-based payment system as a game-changing service targeting the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). But a recent article in the International Herald Times showcases the challenges this service and others face. In truth, any [...]
In a recent article in Reuter’s, Michael Dell talked about increasing growth in emerging markets by bypassing their typical phone/web direct-model and selling PC’s in retail stores (dubbed dell.com@retail).
I was talking to Dell’s Asia executives in China last year about job opportunities (this was before Michael Dell returned as CEO). I brought up the challenges [...]
Every month I am going to highlight a specific leader in the technology industry that best exemplifies the skills and qualities of a Disruptive Leader. Each will be a leader who:
Embraces challenge and adversity as a way to strengthen organizations and business fundamentals.
Uses game-changing strategies and tactics to overturn the status quo both within their [...]
