Links to references

Here are some of the people with whom we associate: Guidewire Group, whose founders include Chris Shipley, executive producer of the Demo conference; I'm also on their Sounding Board Alidade Incorporated, Jeff Cares' innovative consultancy for leading-edge military thinking John Parkinson, former CTO for Capgemini's Americas unit Decision Path, whose founder is Rich Adler, a colleague from CSC days Eric Lundquist, editor-in-chief at e-Week David McIntosh, who does executive development and wrote a book on The Art of Business Stew Bloom, who's president and CEO of Escalate Software, which makes software for retailers Andrew Odlyzko, who writes astute papers from his post at the University of Minnesota Doblin Group, whose CEO Larry Keely is one of the most respected innovation experts in the field Kevin Kelly, whose Cool Tools list is vital reading Weddle Consulting, a long-time player among innovation consultancies David Robertson, a professor at IMD in Switzerland and an expert on IT management Abigail Johnson, who has connected me with several promising startups in her firm's portfolio Gary A. Bolles, co-founder of the Conferenza conference reporting business Bloom Group, which helps professional services firms establish credibility David Isenberg, who I had the pleasure of meeting and admiring even before he wrote The Rise of the Stupid Network Gerson Lehrman Group, which manages a vast collection of practitioners who serve as resources for equity analysts Eric Mankin, who runs a center on innovation and entrepreneurship at Babson College Pito Salas, groupware expert and fellow Guidewire advisor John Patrick, another Guidewire colleague and one of the primary Internet evangelists for Fortune 500 companies in the 1990s