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The story about PLATO is not only interesting, but it will also teach you a lesson or two. It explains the fate of great ideas that are not in sync with the times and how large, well-established [...]

Steve Jobs was commercially successful in being Steve Jobs. Everyone else is better off remaining who they are. A review of Walter Isaacson’s book Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography at [...]

The idea was not particularly sophisticated. It was an improvement of something that already existed. The timing and the execution was brilliant. When Erik Damgaard in the summer of 1983 returned [...]

Using standard software to support business process management and control in midsized companies started with the invention of the minicomputer in the late 1970s and got its breakthrough with the [...]

The story of how the brothers Erik and Preben Damgaard started their small software company in the basement under their parents’ house and in 18 years created a company for which Microsoft [...]

I bought a new Volvo a while ago and was surprised when my insurance company, Topdanmark, declined to take it on. “It needs to be retrofitted with a GPS tracker,” they said. However, [...]

We have published our annual report that presents an estimation of the relative demand capacity for B2B information technology and related services worldwide.  This estimation is called “The [...]

Many years ago, I attended a meeting of the Silicon Vikings network. This network aims to establish links between the Nordic/Baltic countries and the bustling, entrepreneurial environment on the [...]

By success, I understand that you achieve your goals. These are goals you have defined yourself. Thus, you decide for yourself whether you are successful or not. Your success is not for others to [...]

Books like Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup are the main reason I do not read much fiction. Again and again, the reality surpasses the imagination. Had Bad Blood been [...]