CYBAEA is an independent consulting organization. We help our clients prepare for and profit from disruptive technology innovation.

We support organizations in defining, communicating, and delivering their strategy for the use of technology. Additionally, we provide independent research that identifies and analyzes major trends in technology and their impact on business.

Navigating Technology

History is littered with the corpses of companies that made assumptions about their future based on known technologies, only to be swept away by innovation rendering entire industries obsolete.

Such disruptive innovation can be a threat or an opportunity. It all depends on how prepared you are.

CYBAEA is an independent consulting organization. We support our clients defining, communicating, and delivering their strategy for the use of technology.

We work closely with our clients to add measurable value through each stage of the process of realizing your business objectives:

Vision. Everything starts with a vision. You've got to have a dream, as the song has it. How will you articulate and communicate your vision to ensure that it is taken up by investors, employees and other stakeholders?

Research. Research places the vision in context. What is the competition doing, what disruptive technologies are on the horizon, what are the alternative strategies?

Strategy. Strategy is the vision made concrete. How will you change the way you do business, your organization, and your relationship with suppliers, customers, employees, and investors?

Change program. Rarely, can a business strategy be implemented in a single step. Usually a change program is required. What is the portfolio of projects that will successfully implement the strategy, what are the project dependencies, and what is the optimal scheduling?

Read more about CYBAEA: What we do and who we are.

cybaea (latin), ae, f.: trading vessel; a transport, cargo, or merchant ship.

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Recent blog entries

Your mobile phone knows everything about you ... and it is telling

On 2009-08-17 09:18:00, Allan Engelhardt wrote in CYBAEA Journal:

We knew the potential existed already, of course. Mobile devices in the USA generates some 600 billion transactions per day, each tagged with the location and time. Jeff Jonas: Every call, text message, email and data transfer handled by your mobile device creates a transaction with your space-time coordinate[...].

The mobile operators have this data, of course. We all know this (especially here where we have been using some of it for social network analysis). No real surprises here, except perhaps in the volumes.

But did you know that the operators are sharing your data? What is new, at least to me, is that this data is being provided to third parties that are leveraging specially designed analytics to make sense of our space-time-travel data.

Beautiful Data

On 2009-07-27 19:38:00, Allan Engelhardt wrote in CYBAEA Data and Analysis:

O'Reilly's recent publication Beautiful Data has a chapter by Jeff Jonas which is enough reason in itself for me to recommend it. The chapter, Data Finds Data, is also available as a PDF download.

Massively parallel database for analytics

On 2009-07-22 13:37:00, Allan Engelhardt wrote in CYBAEA Data and Analysis:

This is by far the best description of why traditional parallel databases (like Teradata, Greenplum et al.) is a evolutionary dead end. But much more than a theoretical discussion, they have built a solution which they call HadoopDB. It is based on Hadoop, PostgreSQL, and Hive and is completely Open Source. Alternative, column-based, backends to PostgreSQL are being implemented now. Read: Announcing release of HadoopDB.

B2B Content Marketing

On 2009-07-22 06:59:00, Allan Engelhardt wrote in CYBAEA Journal:

The nice people at Velocity has released The B2B Content Marketing Workbook. It is behind a registration wall which means we wouldn’t normally recommend it but you can just type junk in the fields if you are not comfortable with giving your personal details to a marketing agency. (Think about it....) If you are relatively new in the B2B world, say having joined a professional services or consulting organization, you may find this one useful.

Marketing lessons from Antiquity

On 2009-07-10 21:25:00, Allan Engelhardt wrote in CYBAEA Journal:

A story from antiquity involving a king of Rome and a Greek Sibyl has lovely marketing lessons for today.

Sometime around 576 BC the Cumaean Sibyl arrives in Rome and offer nine books of her prophesies to King Tarquin, the legendary (in both senses of the word) last king of Rome (they had emperors after that).

The king laughs at the enormous sum she is asking for the books and sends her packing. She then burns three of the books and goes back to the king offering the six books at the same high price as the original nine. He rejects her again.

Then she burns three more of the books and offer the last three to the king at the same price.

This time he buys them.