“Today everything computes. Intelligence has been infused into things no one would recognize as computers: appliances, cars, roadways, clothes, even rivers and cornfields.” So begins an IBM Smarter Planet ad in the Wall Street Journal arguing that computing must get smarter to manage today’s wealth of data. This data is not your father’s data of computer bits and bites. It now includes tweets, visual images, videos, machine output, etc. In this new world, IBM argues, computing must be: Designed for new data streams Optimized and fine-tuned to specific user tasks Managed in cloud-based solutions that offer security and flexibility Major computer models don’t change often, IBM states. But when they do change they “unleash enormous productivity, innovation and economic growth,” capturing the conclusion of economists who study Kondratiev long economic cycles. Does your business model capitalize on a rising sea of data from…