Nationality American Website www.philsimon.com | Name Phil Simon | |
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Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University Occupation Author and Public Speaker Education Carnegie Mellon University Residence Henderson, Nevada, United States Books The Visual Organization: Data Visu, The Age of the Platform, Too Big to Ignore: The Business, The New Small: How a New Br, The Next Wave of Technolo | ||
Phil Simon - Author - Tech Cocktail Week: June 2013
Phil Simon (born ca. 1972) is an American speaker, journalist, and author. He writes about management, technology, publishing, disruption, communication, and analytics.
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- Phil Simon Author Tech Cocktail Week June 2013
- Education
- Work
- Awards
- Views
- Selected publications
- References
Education
Simon studied economics and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving his BS in Policy and Management in 1993, and labor relations at Cornell University obtaining his MILR in 1997.
Work
Simon started his career as human-resource consultant in 1997 at Capital One for a year, and at Merck & Co. for two years. After two more years as application consultant for Lawson Software. In 2002, he started his own consulting firm.
He has written eight management books, most recently Analytics: The Agile Way Beyond his proper books, he served as editor for the 2011 book, 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. In May 2016, SImon announced that he had accepted a position as a full-time faculty member at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
His work has been featured in Fast Company, the New York Times, CNN, Inc. Magazine, Harvard Business Review The Huffington Post, and many other sites.
Awards
In February 2016, Simon received a 2015 Axiom award for Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It in the category of networking / communication. In 2012, he received a 2011 Axiom best business technology book award for The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business.
Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.
Views
Simon believes that the platform represents a fundamentally new business model—the most important one of the 21st century. Specifically, APIs and SDKs are enabling developers to build mobile apps and web services faster and on a much greater scale than ever. The most successful companies of the day—e.g., Amazon.com, Apple Inc., Facebook, and Google—no longer focus on one line of business. Rather, they quickly and frequently add adjacent offerings, products, and services—i.e., planks.
Through increasingly powerful ecosystems, companies today are externalizing a great deal of their innovation and evolving at rapid speeds. What's more, emerging platforms like Twitter, Kickstarter, Force.com, WordPress, Udemy, and scores of others are redefining business in tectonic ways that we have only begun to understand.
Simon's belief in the power of platforms is supported by the extensive economic research of people like Marshall Van Alstyne.