Last month the Council on Foreign Relations published a report co-authored by Joel I. Klein and Condoleezza Rice, titled, “U.S. Education Reform and National Security.” Giving voice to the work of its task force of 25 scholars and practitioners, the report sounded a call to arms from its...

 With almost a billion friends on Facebook, six billion cell phone accounts globally, and twenty billion “things” from refrigerators to bridge spans to micro-medical devices soon to be wired by Internet, the digital age is upon us in full force. Everyone and everything is...

How Do You Give the US Navy and Coast Guard “Friend Or Foe” Awareness of Any Ship, Crew or Cargo AfloatAnywhere in the World – Fast? Ask Mike Krieger. The Situation.The 9/11 planes had crashed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. A year later a Cuban gunboat docked in Key West...

How Do You Ensure Your Telcom Infrastructure Will Withstand The Next Cataclysmic Strike – And Keep Traders, Exchanges, and the Global Capital Markets Humming? Ask the New York Stock Exchange. The Situation: The 9/11 attacks had devastated lower Manhattan. Even so, the New York Stock Exchange...

How Do You Engage Thousands of Automotive Enthusiasts, Crowd Source Design of a High-Performance Off-Road Racer, and Go from Global Concept to American Manufacture….in Twenty Four Months? Ask Local Motors’ Jay Rogers. The Situation: To John B. “Jay” Rogers the Big 3 car...

October’s New England snowmeggadon showed us how far social media has come in making collaboration across the boundaries of government and citizens easy. And it offered stark contrast between those who get it and use it, and those who don’t. Social media and the digital devices...