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Welcome to my blog! Its focus will be world events, and to understand them we'll take frequent side-trips into the worlds of business, technology, and religion.

The war on terrorism occupies a lot of my atention these days, partly because I've been following it for a couple of decades and partly because I - like so many of you - lost a friend on Sept. 11th. Other areas slated for frequent coverage will include weapons of mass destruction, the potential effects of new technologies, the dynamics of a networked society, and sometimes things that just strike my funnybone. There are more things in heav'n and earth than are dreamed of in my philosophy, after all, and some of it is pretty funny.

If you read my blog and think of words like "thoughtful," irreverent," iconoclastic," and "deep", I'll know that I've succeeded.
posted by Joe Katzman on 4/5/2002 06:49:58 AM | [link to this post!]

 
Traditionally, people ask "who are you?" It's an impossible question to really answer, so I'll start with what I do. I talk business strategy on equal footing with the strategists, and technology on equal footing with the technologists. Mostly, I'm a translator - a very important role for organizations who want both a better understanding of their futures and a way forward that leverages the power of technology, marketing, and strategy. I used to do this with Ernst & Young and KPMG Consulting, but now my friends and I have a firm of our own and we're excited about where we're going.

My background in business strategy grew from my background in international strategy, which included extensive studies of military and intelligence matters. So the subject matter of this blog really isn't much of a detour for me after all. I'm also a baseball nut, and a former SCUBA instructor, and an afficionado of live theatre. If you want to know more about my interests and inner state, well... you'll just have to read the blog.

On with the show - and welcome!
posted by Joe Katzman on 4/5/2002 08:48:07 AM | [link to this post!]