Brian Solis will take the main stage at the World Business Forum in Mexico City to share his views on how collaboration will fuel a new competitive market. Brian joins other thought leaders including Mohanbir Sawhney, Don Tapscott, Felix Baumgartner, and Angella Nazarian.
What’s the Future of Business Makes 800CEOREAD’s Top 20 Business Books…Again
What’s The Future of Business by Brian Solis has once again made the 800CEOREAD list for top business books in its September 2013 report. 800-CEO-READ, a leading direct supplier of book-based resources compiles a monthly list of best-selling business books based on purchases by its corporate customers nationwide.
Hollywood’s The Wrap Takes The Covers Off of Twitter IPO with Brian Solis
The Wrap’s Brent Lang called Brian Solis to examine the various scenarios Twitter executives should consider for a successful IPO. Here are some of his thoughts from the article, “How Twitter Can Avoid Facebook’s IPO Nightmare.” “What you have is a wary Wall Street that still has a memory of the dotcom bust fresh in its mind,” Brian Solis, a digital analyst at the research and advisory firm Altimeter Group, said. “There is certainly a perception that a quarter…
Brian Solis Sits Down with Peter Guber to Talk About the Future of Business
Peter Guber joins Brian Solis for a special edition of his popular Web series Revolution. Peter shares his experience in taking traditional business models and modernizing them for the connected economy. Peter also explores the differences in competing for the present versus competing for the future. About Peter Guber: – Chairman and CEO of the multimedia Mandalay Entertainment Group – Past president of Sony Pictures – Producer of popular motion pictures including Batman, Rain Man, The Color Purple, just to…
Brian Solis Publishes His Thoughts on The New Customer Revolution in Influencia, a French Magazine on Innovation
Brian Solis has contributed his latest article to Influencia, one of France’s leading magazines on innovation. In this article, he explores the end of business as usual and how to harness the power of connected consumerism. It starts with change, but it takes a change agent. Le peuple est le premier acteur du changement ! Les médias sociaux ont posé les fondations d’une révolution, celle de la façon dont les gens apprennent, communiquent et se connectent entre eux. Aucune marche…
3M Features Brian Solis at Innovation ThinkTANK
3M invited Brian Solis to keynote the company’s inaugural Innovation ThinkTANK event in St. Paul, MN. Solis challenged strategists and executives for leading brands in attendance to embrace Creative Destruction to create a culture of innovation where disruption isn’t something that you do or that happens to you, it’s the result of competing for the future…today. More here.
AlwaysOn Ranks Brian Solis as a 2013 Power Player in Technology Business Media
AlwaysOn announced the first annual Power Players in Technology Business Media list, honoring the technology journalists who are keeping the Global Silicon Valley connected and informed. Brian Solis was included in this list for his work across multiple publications, LinkedIn Influencer‘s program and also for his award-winning blog, BrianSolis.com. Introducing the 2013 Power Players in Technology Business Media Byron Acohido Technology Reporter USA Today Kiran Aditham Editor Mediabistro Erin Ailworth Business Reporter Boston Globe Mickey Alam Kahn Editor in Chief…
NPR Invites Brian Solis to Discuss Twitter IPO On Air
Twitter gave potential investors the first peek at its financials as the company heads toward its initial public offering. Twitter plans to raise $1 billion in its IPO and will trade under the ticker symbol TWTR. While Twitter has quickly transformed the way people communicate and comment on events, it has yet to establish itself as a business. NPR’s Steve Henn interviewed Brian Solis to discuss Twitter’s S-1 filing and what lies ahead for the company as it makes the…
Time Magazine asks Brian Solis about the state and future of Google+
Credit: Andrew Kelly / REUTERS In a piece entitled, “Google Is Far From Losing the War Over Social,” Time’s Verne Kopytoff examined the state and future of Google+. At 390 million users, Google’s social network is 60% larger and much younger than Twitter. But two years after its launch, many still question its progress. Koptoff interviewed Brian Solis where the two spent an hour discussing every aspect Google’s rise, strategies, and the meaning of Google+ within the company’s greater ecosystem…
The Wall Street Journal asks Brian Solis to weigh in on Twitter’s S-1 filing
Twitter filed its S-1 on October 3rd, 2013 in its quest to raise up to $1 billion in a public offering. The company reports up to a quarter billion users and also a quarter billion in revenue for the first six months of 2013. While revenue doubled this year over last, its net loss grew by 40% to $69 million as a result of ballooning expenses. In its story covering Twitter’s IPO plan, The Wall Street Journal asked Altimeter analyst…