After a couple of months in “stealth” mode, I am happy to announce the formation of my new company “Light and Electric“. Light and Electric is a management consulting firm supplying expert advice and custom development services to businesses and their partners. Our efforts center on the intersection of business communications and web technologies, such as social business, mashups and open source software. Unlike traditional management consulting firms, our advice comes from our real world experience solving businesses communications problems. Our approach is holistic: our business insight drives our technical solutions, and our technical competence uncovers new business opportunities. Above all, we seek to be a trusted advisor, providing both business and technology views that are valuable, unique and radically unbiased.
Today, I am very happy to announce our first public partnership. Light and Electric will be partnering with TMC, producers of IT Expo and other events, to provide education and training to their 3.5 million readers every month. The first tangible result of this partnership is a new section of the IT Expo show called “The Cloud Communications Show”. This one day event will gather the best and brightest minds working on API based development of applications and services, CEBP experts and social business advocates to discuss what’s working, and what’s not. Just like our practice at Light and Electric, the Cloud Communications show will be very light on hype and very heavy on real world experience, lessons and opportunities. We are honored to work with a company with the audience reach of TMC.
In the coming weeks, we have a number of other announcements as well. Light and Electric is partnering with major suppliers of APIs and cloud services to supply professional services such as custom development, integration, needs and readiness assessments. In addition, Light and Electric is working on several analysis reports with our analyst partners. In all things, our basic approach holds: our primary research is the work we do in the field, and our primary value is the real world knowledge about what works, and what doesn’t.
Stay tuned.
