Education
Simon studied economics and political science at Carnegie Mellon University, receiving his Bachelor of Science in Policy and Management in 1993, and labor relations at Cornell University obtaining his MILR in 1997.
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He writes about management, social media, technology, publishing, disruption, and information management. Simon started his career as human resource consultant in 1997 at Capital One for a year, and at Merck & Company for two years. After two more years as application consultant for Lawson Software he started his own consultancy firm philsimon.com.
He has written seven management books
In addition, he served as editor for the 2011 book, 101 Lightbulb Moments in Data Management: Tales from the Data Roundtable. Seth Godin featured Simon"s work in his 2011 e-book Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People who are Poking the Box and Making a Difference.
His work has been featured in Fast Company, the New York Times, Cable News Network, Incorporated. Magazine, Harvard Business Review The Huffington Post, and many other sites.
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In February of 2016, Simon received a 2015 Axiom award for Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix lieutenant in the category of networking / communication. In 2012, he received a 2011 Axiom best business technology book award for The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business. Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.
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Simon believes that the platform represents a fundamentally new business model—the most important one of the 21st century. Specifically, APIs and SDKs are enabling developers to build mobile apps and web services faster and on a much greater scale than ever. The most successful companies of the day—e.g., Amazon.com, Apple Incorporated., Facebook, and Google—no longer focus on one line of business.
Rather, they quickly and frequently add adjacent offerings, products, and services—id est (that is), planks.
Through increasingly powerful ecosystems, companies today are externalizing a great deal of their innovation and evolving at rapid speeds. What"s more, emerging platforms like Twitter, Kickstarter, Force.com, WordPress, Udemy, and scores of others are redefining business in tectonic ways that we have only begun to understand.
Simon"s belief in the power of platforms is supported by the extensive economic research of people like Marshall Van Alstyne.
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In February of 2016, Simon received a 2015 Axiom award for Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It in the category of networking / communication. In 2012, he received a 2011 Axiom best business technology book award for The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business. Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.In February of 2016, Simon received a 2015 Axiom award for Message Not Received: Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It in the category of networking / communication. In 2012, he received a 2011 Axiom best business technology book award for The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business. Simon announced in April 2012 that The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business would be translated into Korean in late 2012.