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.
Darwin on demo: Workday Rising
I saw Panera Bread present eye-popping stats at Workday Rising – 65,000 hires a year with rapid growth and 90% staff turnover and yet, on-boarding expectations of less then 24 hours. It would not be an exaggeration to say Panera, along with Starbucks, Whole Foods and a few others have significantly influenced American diet in […]
Oracle: Time to push the pedal on cloud apps
Larry Ellison joked at Oracle OpenWorld he was told Fusion applications would be developed in 4 years. They have taken over a decade. Snicker all you want. The flip side of that is Oracle started developing cloud apps years before most others. While IaaS and Amazon got a lot of attention during OOW, the winner […]
Workday Rising: Sneak Preview from Leighanne Levensaler
Workday’s annual user conference, Rising is in Chicago this week. The European version is in Barcelona in a few weeks. It’s always an enjoyable event with “The Citizens of the Cloud” – some of the happiest customers in the world. Founders Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri showcase an entertaining keynote, and this year I am […]
Oracle AI: Adaptive Intelligence
As Steve Miranda previewed last week, one of the more interesting announcements this week at Oracle OpenWorld is around its Adaptive Intelligent Applications. Steve had said “Basically, what we’re doing is leveraging our data cloud, which I know you’re familiar with (having profiled BlueKai), together with machine-learning algorithms and incorporating that into our transactional applications […]
Oracle IaaS opportunity is much bigger than Amazons
Three things were striking about Larry Ellison’s kickoff keynote at Oracle OpenWorld last night a) he was at his late night host best – I must have been a sight as I burst out in humor every few minutes b) he must have spent the week reading all the press releases Oracle issues during this […]
The Post-Corporate Job Economy: A Remarkable US innovation
Lost in all the noise about the “middle class squeeze”, angry workers “who have been left behind”, and that 6 out of 10 Americans say the “economy is on the wrong track” is another story which has not been widely reported. The US has created a new-gen labor economy which the rest of world will […]
A Tale of Two Wildly Divergent Emotions
Dennis Howlett posted this weekend “The robots are coming and we are royally screwed”. In contrast, ZDNet ran my column “Automation is coming, but it’ll take longer than you’ll think (and won’t take your job)” The timing of the columns was coincidental, but leads to the question – why do we have such divergent views […]
The SAP Sisyphus
These days , far removed from the origins of Greek mythology, it is easy to feel sorry for Sisyphus as he pushes a huge boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down. He is cursed to repeat this action over and over again. Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. But read the […]
Silicon Collar excerpt: Rosewood Sand Hill
Silicon Collar looks at machines and humans at work in over 50 settings across industries and countries. On this blog I will excerpt many of those settings over the next few weeks. On Deal Architect I will excerpt more of the policy parts of the book. “Let’s head a little bit due south, next to […]
Doctor, Heal Thyself
An interesting set of observations from Silicon Collar While analysts are predicting doom and gloom from automation to other sectors, they themselves continue with a labor and paper intensive model based on dated, static tools like Magic Quadrants and Waves which were designed in previous decades. Ditto for many academicians who believe MOOC (massively online […]
