Vinnie Mirchandani
CEO of Deal Architect, a top advisory boutique recognized in The Black Book of Outsourcing, author of a widely praised book on technology enabled innovation, The New Polymath, prolific blogger, writing about technology-enabled innovation at New Florence, New Renaissance and about waste in technology at Deal Architect. Previously Analyst at Gartner, Partner with PwC Consulting. Keynoted at many business and technology conferences and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and other executive and technology publications.
The Changed Definition of Vertical Technology
It was 1997. Gartner used to publish an annual poster which rated systems integrators/outsourcers by industries, by geographies, by technologies, and other competencies. It was a large wall hanger with many rows and columns, and many analysts, including me, had a say in some of the cells. One of the firms being rated submitted the [...]
Innovation is a game of fractions
As we get ready for the big game, I listened to Al Pacino’s speech in Any Given Sunday. And it occurred to me if Coach was talking about innovation, he would substitute fractions for inches. Think about it. Innovation is all about relativity – fractions. a) If your customers think you are innovative, a large [...]
Zach Nelson: A Decade in the Clouds
Zach Nelson is a really interesting tech executive. He has a wide rolodex (over 20 pages in my last book, The New Polymath came from interviews with Zach and several others he introduced me to), diverse interests (numerous relationships with the Oakland Athletics baseball team, part owner of the Omaha Nighthawks football team, golfer), and [...]
Apple and US labor
Steve Jobs supposedly told President Obama ““Those (iPhone) jobs aren’t coming back,” according to this article in the New York Times. Apple’s labor in China is also showing up in much hand-wringing in the Presidential race. Let’s explore a few other dimensions of the issue: The Chinese labor is a small part of the iPhone [...]
Life post-SOPA?
I had couple reminders over the last few weeks of how messy attributions and permissions already are – so about life if SOPA passes? a) My book editors went through and highlighted several quotes from articles which exceeded 50 words. I shortene…
Innovation Myopia
In 2005, the year in which I launched my innovation blog, New Florence, I had 65 posts there. This year, at the pace January has started, I will have that many by the 3rd week of February! And my books written in the last 3 years have another 800 pages of other innovation case studies [...]
The Real Mega-trend in IT. Hint: its not social, cloud, Big Data
So, by now you have read a bunch of last year’s trends and forecasts for this year. You probably have your favorites – cloud computing or Big Data, maybe? Talk to CEOs and the big excitement is about what is on display at CES in Vegas this week. No, not ultrabooks – but technology which [...]
Bring out the fact checkers
‘Tis the season for debates and fact checking statements by candidates. Not politicians, but technology vendors.
Like this one by SAP in a column titled Cloud Strategy that I saw courtesy of Jon Reed:
What might IBM learn from Apple
Mark Fidelman blogged “Why every company needs to be more like IBM and less like Apple.” His arguments are cultural. IBM is supposedly open, more socially savvy. Apple is, in contrast, closed, secretive. Very different reality from the famous “Big Brother” commercial Apple ran during the 1984 SuperBowl, he says. Let me come back to [...]
The future of work and workers
Over the last few weeks been thinking of the radical changes in the workplace. No, not just SAP/SuccessFactors and the hype around that. More macro trends a) My two nephews, on either side of 30 years, visited over the holidays. One came with his wife and 2 year old. There were, of course, my kids, [...]
