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Happy About Knowing What
to Expect in 2006
by Mitchell Levy
Predictions
from "Happy About Knowing What
to Expect in 2006"
- "Office
in your phone. Millions will be carrying mobile devices that do more than voice,
email and text. Videos, web conferencing, unified messaging, powerpoint presentations,
mobile access to any content using infobots, and more are coming."
Rip
Gerber, CMO, GM-Ecommerce, Intellisync Corporation - "Countries
as Brands. In 2006 countries will start overtly branding themselves to increase
export visibility. Made in Luxembourg? You bet."
Andrew Greenberg,
CEO, Greenberg Brand Strategy - "Younger
and younger users will create increasingly more complex content with higher production
value. Heck, who doesn't know a 4th grader whose made a movie?"
Karen
Howe, VP, AOL - "Amazing acceleration
of the economy of services. Expect the services component of US GDP grow from
72% to 80%."
Jean Paul Jacob, IBM Researcher, Emeritus - "On
Jan 1, 2006, the first Baby Boomer turns 60. The richest, best-educated, most
spoiled generation in history. They want to live well and live forever, and they
will transform our 20th Century healthcare system with their demands."
Jack
Powers, Director, International Informatics Institute - "Crime
on the Internet will be more rampant than ever. Why? Sutton's law. Willy Sutton
the bank robber said he robbed banks because, 'That's where the money is.'"
Dave Anderson, CEO, Sendmail - "Oil
prices will top $100 / barrel and average over $80 / barrel and Oil prices will
drive at least one country to effectively declare bankruptcy and call in the World
Bank / IMF."
Rohit Talwar, CEO, Fast Future |
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Contributors Include:
- "AGK"
Karunakaran, President, GDA Technologies Inc.
- Andrew
Fife, VP Business Development, Cryptine Networks
- Andrew
Greenberg, CEO, Greenberg Brand Strategy
- Ann Revell-Pechar,
President, Revell-Pechar, Inc.
- Barry Weinbaum, President
& CEO, NanoOpto
- Bill James, CEO, Digital Media
Services BT
- Bob Cormia, Faculty Member, Foothill
College
- Brandon Hall, CEO, Brandon-Hall.com
- Chris
Consorte, President & CEO, Integrated Direct LLC
- Dan
Shafer, Technology Visionary and Author
- Daniel Anthony,
MBA Student, Class of 2007, The Johns Hopkins University, Regional Advisor, Marketing,
Envision EMI, LLC.
- Dave Anderson, CEO, Sendmail
- Diana
Hoffman, Former-CEO, EnvironSystems
- Frank Jewett,
VP Business Development, RedFlagsHelp
- George Sidman,
Chairman, Chief Technology Architect, WebLOQ, Inc.
- Gerard
Wen, Principal, The Alternative Board Silicon Valley
- Ian
Lessen, Auditel
- Jack Powers, Director, International
Informatics Institute.
- Jack Yan, CEO, Lucire LLC
- Jim
(J.C.) Carlton, Retired, President and CEO
- Jean
Kovacs, CEO, Comergent
- Joe Tedesco, Founder and
CEO, Architech Corporation
- Jean Paul Jacob, IBM
Researcher, Emeritus
- John Zenger, CEO, Zenger|Folkman
- Karen
Howe, VP, AOL
- Karen Orton Katz, VP of Marketing,
Sales, and Business Development
- Karl Shaikh, Co-founder,
Virtual Directors, London, England
- Kevin Lee, Executive
Chairman, Didit.com LLC
- Kevin Nikkhoo, President
& CEO, Simplex, Inc.
- Michael Drapkin, CEO,
Drapkin Technology Corp.
- Michelle Aden, Standards
Strategist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Narry Singh,
Founder, Tacit, Inc.
- Nigel Woods - CEO, Need More
Sales - www.needmoresales.co.uk
- Peter Ostrow, President
& CEO, Technical Communities/TestMart
- Philippe
Lavie, President, Keyword Enterprises, a Customer Centric Selling Affiliate
- Prasad
Kaipa, Ph. D., CEO Advisor and Coach, The Kaipa Group
- Ralph
Marx, Former CEO, Acteva, and Strategic Business Advisor
- Rip
Gerber, CMO, GM-Ecommerce, Intellisync Corporation
- Rohit
Talwar, CEO, Fast Future
- S Sundararajan, Head of
Operations, Real Soft
- Stephen Ibaraki, Chairman
/ Board Director, iGEN.ca / CIPS / NPA / ChinaValue.NET
- Steven
Rothberg, President and Founder, CollegeRecruiter.com
- Stewart
Quealy, Sr. Conference Program Director, Incisive Media
- Sue
Kunz, President & CEO, Solidware Technologies
- Suzette
Cavanaugh, Independent Consultant
- Thomas Wong, CEO,
Koyale LLC
- Tony Di Franco, CEO, Mail2Net
- Vamsee
Tirukkala, Co-founder and EVP, Zinnov
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| About the Author |  |
| Mitchell Levy is Director of the
innovative Silicon Valley Executive Business Program and the Chairman and partner
of CEOnetworking. Mr. Levy is also President and CEO of ECnow.com, a Management
Consulting firm helping company's grow with strategic consulting and targeted
business education, author of the books E-Volve-or-Die.com,
Happy About Outsourcing, and Happy About
Knowing What to Expect in 2005, creator of the Value
Framework®, and on the board of directors of Rainmaker Systems (NASDAQ:
RMKR). He is the former Chair of comdex.biz at Comdex Fall
and was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, during the last four of which he managed
the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. He is a popular speaker,
lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the
world. | | | |
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