Adrian Pittman

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Since age 16, Adrian Pittman, Founder of Module, has tasked himself with learning one new skill per year. We discuss the impact of that strategy on growing his company.

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Filed under: Adrian Pittman | Ann Arbor, MI | Innovative Employment | Module

Adrian Pittman, founder of Module, started working for himself at age 16. In this conversation, Adrian and I discuss the advice he would give to his sixteen year old self wishing to enter his field of endeavor today. He cited two:

• Expect the rules as you know them today to change.
• As a result, you need to constantly consider yourself a student.

When I asked him how he learned himself, the answer was quite revelatory:

• Each year after starting work, he set himself a goal of learning one new skill a year.
• He chose the skills based on demand from his clients, thereby ensuring he stayed in touch with the marketplace.
• As his business grew beyond a one-man show, he began to incorporate course work on managing people.

In conclusion, Adrian states that he was lucky to be put in a situation where he was forced to learn. But, the truth of the matter is that he himself made the decision to be in a situation where learning was essential. This strategy might be described as a blueprint for how to succeed in the knowledge-based economy.

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The social web is a real time stock market of prevailing trends and opinions. Adrian Pittman shares what he has learned while briefing executive suites on social media.

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Filed under: Adrian Pittman | Ann Arbor, MI | Module | Network Businesses

 Adrian Pittman and his company, Module, recently put on the Module09 conference to provide a business-oriented overview of Social Media. In this segment, Adrian provides a highly condensed summary of his findings on social media:

• Platforms like Twitter and Facebook are channels for social communication over the web. The social web occurs at the intersection of these channels and might be considered a sort of real time stock market of social communication.
• While Twitter and Facebook are the consensus picks for most popular social media platforms, people's allegiance to platforms is very fluid and changeable.
• Twitter now appears the best platform for engaging new audiences, mainly because it has dramatically reduced privacy restrictions.

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The key to success in the cloud is tying it to your company's business drivers.

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Filed under: Adrian Pittman | Ann Arbor, MI | Module

In the past year, there's been increasing discussion of cloud computing. In this conversation, Adrian Pittman, founder of Module, a technology company, describes the cloud as decentralizing distribution and access to a company's core data assets. For most companies, the main advantage of moving into the cloud is that it creates connections that allow better information throughput, making operations more efficient and interaction with customers more effective.

With this view, Module takes the following strategic approach to cloud computing:

• Understand the business drivers of potential clients seeking to move into the cloud.
• Determine which, if any, service offerings best meet those needs.
• Create applications that glue those offerings together.