Comments for KimberlyAnna's Cornerview

Comment on Newbies are beginning to shine by Richard Echeandia

Richard Echeandia — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:10 +0000

Tesla’s a technical tour de force but their pricing won’t make them much of a factor in the marketplace. How many people can afford $60K for a car? In 2009?

The one that I think just might (emphasis on might) pull it off is Aptera. With “OMG, did you see that?” styling, +200MPG in some situations and a sticker that’s south of $30K, this could change alot. My fingers are crossed for them and I wish they were available for pre-order outside of California.

Check out http://www.aptera.com for more.

Comment on Newbies are beginning to shine by Bruce G

Bruce G — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:31:06 +0000

It really is disturbing to me that our government spends so much time bailing out a failed business model and attempting to put well run companies (like Exxon) out of business – amazing how government gets this exactly backwards. But I am ranting a bit. I am very excited about the Tesla as are a few of my friends, but sadly, until I pay out about 8 years of college tuition, it;s not on my horizon. I think that people want to own these new technologies, but what business doesn’t understand (and they should) is that it is a simple matter of economics. The reality is that the average person will buy a hybrids if represents a good value to them. Most will not pay 10k more for a similar car unless they are driving enough to make up the difference in gas savings. I made this decision when I chose between an Infiniti and a Camry hybrid, and I know of others that made similar choices. By trying to charge a premium I belive they are missing a huge opportunity to take these technologies mainstream, more quickly. .

Comment on Our first CTO… by Government 2.0 » The Buzz Bin

Government 2.0 » The Buzz Bin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:17:36 +0000

[...] election; as President Obama is creating new offices and making technology appointments. Blogger Kimberly Hatch says it well: a National Chief Technology Officer “would most definitely enable Obama to intelligently [...]

Comment on Social Networks Epitomize Biomimicry by KimberlyAnna

KimberlyAnna — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:07:47 +0000

Steve – great comments! I agree it would be interesting to see some of that broken down. Where I think it would be most helpful is to also relate the value those companies are seeing given their different uses and information management techniques. Peter Kim has a great site about different marketing cases which is close to what I am thinking for internal business productivity uses. http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/ive-been-thinki.html

Comment on Social Networks Epitomize Biomimicry by Steve Elmore

Steve Elmore — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:32:03 +0000

Kimberly,

This is a very good analysis! Two years ago we were talking about this at Cisco: systems are now finally resembling organisms. I think it might be interesting to break social networking constructs into kingdom, phylum, class and species. It would also be interesting to show an enterprise evolutionary scale, and rank various players based on adoption of social networking tools and methods. So, Cisco & Google would be modern man equivalents and you would go down from there.

Comment on Tag! You’re It! by kimberlyanna

kimberlyanna — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:24:55 +0000

Gentlemen, I do agree with you. I figured this was my one compliance with the great “movement.” You have nothing to fear from me in the future!

Comment on Tag! You’re It! by Espen

Espen — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:58:59 +0000

Done, result at http://www.espen.com/archives/2009/01/tag_games_again.html. And I agree with Vaughan – no further contagion from me, either.

Comment on Tag! You’re It! by itorganization2017

itorganization2017 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:59:00 +0000

For the record, thanks for the invite, but, politely, no! I was tagged last year, and went along for the ride. No particular regrets, although I did feel awkward shifting the monkey to some friends and colleagues backs. This time around, I think I’ll pass. It’s not that I’m afraid of sharing 7 more weird or unknown facts about myself – it’s that “passing the monkey” thing I want to avoid.

If my refusing to play is a major blogosphere faux pas, please accept my regrets. There, now I feel better about the whole thing!

Comment on Greening IT by kimberlyanna

kimberlyanna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:15:45 +0000

Esteban, an excellent question! There have been a few big initiatives that are out there and tangible but they are buried within a mess of nonsense marketing. So, I don’t doubt those leaders and real examples are hard to find.

The first example that comes to mind is from Google. In their quest to “do no evil,” they have quickly realized they are using an astronomical amount of energy and producing an equally astonishing amount of heat as waste in the massive data centers they own/run. They have begun massive solar installations and new ways of reusing the excess heat to power and/or heat buildings, etc.

Another example, though I do not have specifics yet, is on the manufacturing side. Many of the major technology manufacturers are coming out with new products which use less or no toxic materials, use less energy or have energy saving modes and, as in Cisco’s Telepresence case, could completely negate the need for travel.

I think I will delve further into this issue for my next post!

Comment on Greening IT by NovaSphere Blog

NovaSphere Blog — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:39 +0000

Kimberly, has a “green leader” in the IT industry emerged? Trends always catch on faster when we have someone to follow. I am sure there are plenty of positive-business case green initiatives out there, but unless you are looking for them, they can be a little hard to find. I would love to be able to provde to my clients the return they will receive for green decisions with hard data.