Kevin Maney

Kevin Maney joined consulting and design firm VSA Partners in 2011 to build a practice that can marry business to big-think journalism in a way that helps both prosper. The first example of his collaboration with VSA is a book commissioned by IBM and co-authored by Maney and veteran tech journalists Steve Hamm and Jeff

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Can Technology Help Businesses To Get Ahead of the Game?

In less than two weeks, The Two-Second Advantage by Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney will make its debut on bookshelves across the U.S. Below is an excerpt from the first chapter, Wayne Gretzky’s Brain in a Box. By guest authors, Vivek Ranadivé and Kevin Maney On March 28, 1955, Time magazine reported on a new generation of machinery

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Vivek Ranadivé

Vivek Ranadivé is an entrepreneur, technology visionary, author, philanthropist, and sports team owner recognized for his outside-the-box thinking. He has led the advancement and use of real-time technology in business operations and decision making, which earned him the nickname “Mr. Real Time” in technology circles. Vivek is dedicated to the belief that if you get

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 7)

SM: How much of this vision is already playing out? VR: A lot. Our leading edge customers already have it. You can go industry by industry and see how they are doing it. With the scope and velocity of life how it is, there is no other way to solve the problem.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 6)

SM: What was the highlight of your TIBCO journey? VR: The highlight is ahead. The best days are still to come.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 5)

SM: What happened after you sold to Reuters? VR: For a couple of years I ran the company as a separate company that was part of Reuters. They cut another deal with me based on our profitability, so in the end they paid double the initial purchase price due to performance.

Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 4)

SM: What did you do after your meeting with the Goldman Sachs partners? VR: I borrowed a Sun workstation. They wanted to get into the commercial sector and they were competing in the engineering workstation area as well. We were the guys who took Sun and put it all over Wall Street. That turned out

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Pioneering Real-time Computing: TIBCO CEO Vivek Ranadivé (Part 3)

SM: You mentioned that you developed a value system during your time at Fortune. What was that? VR: Fortune Systems was an interesting company. I saw that it would be mathematically very difficult for them to make it.