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 New Polymath – the seven year itch
John Wiley released The New Polymath seven summers ago. Lots of readers tell me it is my best book. It inspired them as executives to build multi-disciplinary teams and multi-faceted products. Modern and ancient polymaths I described have inspired other readers to broaden their own skillsets. They say Millennials treasure experiences over physical possessions. Book writing has […]
Oracle Cloud Apps 13: A pivot point?
Oracle Cloud Applications Release 13 – its bi-annual cloud applications release – announced last week solidifies the company’s position as the industry’s broadest suite – across ERP, HCM, CRM and SCM domains. Oracle has been at work on this for over a decade now, and it shows that competitors like SAP and Infor who want to […]
SAP Smooth and Relaxed?
Let me start off by saying I am really pleased I went to SapphireNow this year. I saw what I called the “dawn of intelligent applications” with Leonardo. I liked CEO Bill McDermott promising to do more for customers about toxic contract terms. I liked that the partner booths appeared much smaller than few Sapphires ago – […]
The Clover-Leaf Talent Economy
In analyzing factoids from the recent listing of the Fortune 500, I came up with a startling data point. The F500 have a combined total revenue of $12.1 trillion equal to 65% of the US GDP. Yet they only employ 28.2 million people worldwide. Assuming 60% of those are in the US, that is only about […]
Inforum: Mixed emotions
Updated with comments from Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor The buzz at Infor’s annual user conference (and a side analyst summit) was around Coleman, the AI platform Infor announced to use “powerful machine learning to improve processes such as inventory management, transportation routing, and predictive maintenance”. The name Coleman is a nice touch – honors […]
SAP Leonardo: The dawn of intelligent applications
At SapphrieNow a few weeks ago, SAP’s Hasso Plattner painted the vision of “Intelligent Applications” to include Intelligent Transactions – automate high-frequency repetitive tasks Analytics – make data-driven insights available to everybody Collaboration – tap into the collective intelligence of knowledge workers Digital Assistant – provide the right answer at the right time SAP also […]
Why midmarket customers love Workday
Since its early days, I have heard Workday executives talk about having a highly scalable cloud so large companies would feel comfortable moving off their on-premise finance and human resources applications. So, it is not surprising that multinational customers like United Technologies can consolidate over 100 payroll systems across 80 countries on Workday, and many […]
Oracle: Does good luck also come in threes?
1. Oracle does very well in the premier version of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises”. Only Oracle’s ERP cloud and Workday are in the Leader’s quadrant, and Oracle’s NetSuite subsidiary just barely missed getting there. 2. Oracle had a very impressive cloud performance in […]
Maybe this will spur SAP?
I honestly cannot remember the last time SAP showed in the lower left quadrant – for niche players – in a Gartner MQ. But in the latest MQ for “Cloud Core Financial Management Suites for Midsize, Large and Global Enterprises” , it does. That has to be a concern because SAP has been positioning S/4HANA, […]
A more realistic, less alarmist Oxford study on automation and jobs
By Vinnie Mirchandani on August 17, 2017
In my book, Silicon Collar and in several blogs I have critiqued the 2013 study by two Oxford researchers which reached this alarmist conclusion about the impact of modern day machines on jobs: “According to our estimates, about 47% of total U.S. employment is at risk.” I found several flaws in their study. With such a scary […]
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