San Diego, California, United States
Executive management consultant with 30 years of experience advising and delivering digital business solutions to Fortune 500 companies. Specialize in technology-driven business innovation, IT and business strategy, governance, planning and portfolio management and IT operations transformation. Formerly a Managing Partner with Gartner Consulting's High-Tech, Telecom and Media practice. Specialties: Business strategy & transformation, business model innovation, social business, mobile computing solutions, 3D manufacturing & supply chain, M&A and divestitures, product innovation and development, program management, IT strategy & governance, IT operating model optimization, technology architecture and planning, and globally integrated enterprise (shared service) strategies and solutions. "The art of innovation is not rooted in the desire to be disruptive, it is inspired by the passion to be revolutionary. Change lives, change the game!" "In order to survive in today's digital world, you need to have a voracious appetite for change." “Honesty is the best gift you can give someone and yourself. It is the currency that buys you trust.” "Have a plan, but plan on that plan not going according to plan." "Be comfortable with being uncomfortable." "Thought-leadership is a first-of-a-kind thing.  It's not an observation of the past.  It's about creating something new, whether it is an idea, a point of view, a philosophy or way of doing things." There are no experts on "disruption", just victims and stone throwers. Let the first of us who have launched their Tesla into Martian orbit cast the first stone. :-) #nextcurve I would rather be called ignorant than full of shit. Humility, learning heart, judgement, integrity. Lemmings follow. Thought leaders tell the herd not to go over the cliff. Don't get it twisted, I'm an optimistic futurist. I arrive there through healthy skepticism, not sustained and compounded ignorance. Don't trust, verify! Why? Trust is earned. Seems people have forgotten this very wise adage. #management #technology #innovation #futurism
neXt Curve is a leading and highly-regarded boutique research and advisory firm that I started in the tail end of 2017. Since its founding, neXt Curve has advised leading companies across TMT (Technology Media and Telecommunications) sectors with their strategic and frontier priorities that define and shape the future of their organization and their business. I am regarded as a leading thought leader and expert across a number of domains including telecommunications, IT, IoT, digital transformation & change. I have been recognized as one of the top industry influencers by CBT and Onalytica, and ARInsights.
The official podcast channel of neXt Curve, a research and advisory firm based in San Diego founded by Leonard Lee focused on the frontier markets and business opportunities forming at the intersect of transformative technologies and industry trends. This podcast channel features audio programming from our reThink podcast bringing our listeners the tech and industry insights that matter across the greater technology, media, and telecommunications (TMT) sector. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN AND SUBSCRIBE TO MY PODCAST -> https://nextcurvepodcast.buzzsprout.com Topics we cover include: -> Artificial Intelligence -> Cloud & Edge Computing -> Semiconductor Tech & Industry Trends -> Digital Transformation -> Consumer Electronics -> New Media & Communications -> Consumer & Industrial IoT -> Telecommunications (5G, Open RAN, 6G) -> Security, Privacy & Trust -> Immersive Reality & XR -> Emerging & Advanced ICT Technologies Check out our research at www.next-curve.com.
Managing Director and founder of neXt Curve, a research advisory firm based in San Diego, California focused on providing cross-domain ICT industry research and advisory services to enterprises, startups and technology vendors looking to differentiate themselves and win in a rapidly changing digital economy.
Welcome to the neXtTechCheck Podcast hosted by SmartTech Research's Mark Vena and neXt Curve's Leonard Lee. This informative podcast informative and coves a broad array of tech topics in the news and focuses on challenging a lot of the industry hyperbole that often distorts what’s most essential and relevant. Please subscribe to our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@NextTechCheckPodcast/featured Follow Mark on Twitter/X at @MarkVenaTechguy Follow Leonard on Twitter/X @ebizexec SmartTech Research: https://www.smarttechresearch.net/ neXt Curve: https://next-curve.com/
Member of the Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only organization for successful senior-level technology executives.
Sensors Converge is a Questex LLC brand that hosts a number of events and forums during the year to promote awareness of sensors and electronics and deliver a top-tier education program for design engineers. As a member of Sensor Converge, I will be contributing knowledge to the engineering community, influence the technical program of major conferences, contribute articles, and participate in events as speaker, track chair, or moderator.
FierceWireless is the wireless industry’s daily monitor. FierceWireless’ independent team of experienced editors provides relevant and insightful information on the dynamic wireless market, covering topics ranging from 5G, network infrastructure, wireless technology, regulation, spectrum policy, business deals and competition. FierceWireless provides its readers — which include stakeholders from the entire wireless industry such as carriers, device makers, equipment vendors, enterprise customers and analysts — with thoughtful news and analysis on this increasingly competitive marketplace.