This interview illustrates a next-gen innovative approach to business modeling that leverages GIS and enterprise system assets for improved enterprise search and decision support.

We were pleased to speak with Kevin Pomfret of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy on his perspective of the legal and policy landscape, the burning issues for providers and users of location, and the future of best practices and guidelines.

Australia and New Zealand have developed a forward thinking public-private partnership incubator for spatial information innovation. It’s called the Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRCSI). It is a joint venture of . . .

As Di-ann is driving around the Bay Area she uses Waze (http://waze.com) to find her way. From Waze she gets routing, traffic and road closure information. In exchange, Waze tracks her location and knows her ultimate destination. It knows that she is going slower than expected on Highway 101 and that she is probably in traffic.

About five years ago, the group I worked for at Microsoft looked at what was happening in the blogosphere and decided to bring it in-house. We saw that the conversations needed a

There was a time, not too long ago, when “global” was a concept, but hardly a reality. As a corporation pushed its horizons beyond the relatively homogeneous local market, it encountered increased diversity and complexity, strange customs and even stranger legal environments. There were no global markets, no truly global products and few global brands. Corporations at best were multinational, jerry-built conglomerates of local institutions, each catering to relatively homogeneous local markets, each differing from the next.

Corporations have been pursuing an implicit model that has shed much of the internal political, social and cultural qualities that characterized past corporations and have transformed themselves more and more into purely economic institutions. As this model has advanced, corporate loyalty, a largely political concept, has been replaced by the formal or “at will” employment contract, a purely economic arrangement.