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Executive Summary Thingworx has created the first application platform designed to meet the needs of the connected workls, a world of smart things talking to people and to each other, where an explosion of data about the state of the world floods through networks, where every person or thing has the potential to listen and […]

December 9, 2017

When I was in college I was fascinated by a book called The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. When I was in college, I was fascinated by a book called The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology. Actually, I was most fascinated by the title. Sociology was not my thing. But now, finally, that thought has […]

December 9, 2017

In a series of recent stories, Dan Woods has made the argument that IT is facing a management crisis. Consumerization, Software as a Service, virtualization and cloud computing, and mobility are all stretching IT management skills to the limit. (See “The Coming Crisis of IT Management”, “Eight Steps For Addressing the IT Management Crisis”, and […]

December 9, 2017

The goal of energy management is to make more intelligent use of energy in all its forms. CIOs and CTOs are concerned about energy management because data centers are a major consumer of power for running servers and other equipment and for cooling. Energy management is a hot topic due to rising electricity prices rising […]

December 9, 2017

You don’t need to put everything into an asset management system. Noah Broadwater is the CTO of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind the Sesame Street children’s media juggernaut. Dan Woods, CEO and Founder of Early Adopter Research, sat down with Broadwater to discuss asset and portfolio management from the perspective of the CTO, the effect […]

December 9, 2017

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Speaking

Dan Woods brings the context of more than 25 years of experience in technology and journalism to his speaking engagements. Having interviewed more than 1,000 technology experts and authored more than 20 books, Dan adapts his vision of making technology work to virtually any context.

Consulting

If you are facing a thorny IT problem, Dan Woods can probably solve it. Dan’s background as a CTO and his 25 years in the technology industry enable him to create new technology architectures and debug organizational problems while allowing everyone to be heard.