Forget the Poor, Build it for the 1% – Take #2
The topic of 1% keeps resonating because its both tantalizing to the masses but also very divisive. As Apple launches the latest iPhone priced even higher than earlier Apple phones, its a good time to revisit why that makes a great strategy. Apple has launched yet another product that many critics call over-priced and focused […]
The digital transformation of learning: Social, informal, self-service, and enjoyable
Technology has long been used to improve how we learn, but today’s digital advances, particularly with social media, have taken learning in powerful new — and for some — entirely unexpected directions.
Socially-paranoid media: where did it all go wrong? (rant)
What’s really happened to social media these days? What used to be a fun place to share untethered banter, humor, intellectual conversation and debate, perhaps be a little risqué, has degenerated into a stuffy medium for puffing up corporate brand mush, and regurgitating the same old bland insight we’re having pushed at us daily. Every […]
Automation to displace 750,000 low skilled Indian jobs, but create 300,000 mid-high skilled jobs by 2022
A lot has changed in the last year… especially when it comes to automation: it has now become the broadly-accepted efficiency tool for cost leverage with operations. Every customer has RPA project managers and automation leads hungry for data, advice, and ideas. Every service provider has RPA embedded into their service delivery models, and every credible advisor has a practice […]
Camels to Cars, Artificial Cockroaches, and Will AI Take Your Job?
Avinash Kaushik is a Big Deal in marketing circles. He’s not as big as our Top 15 Marketing Masters of the Digital World, but few are. Take my word for it–Avinash knows marketing and a lot of people follow him. He’s the Digital Marketing Evangelist for Google among other things, and he writes a blog […]
What Top CMO’s Care About (Demand Gen Persona) – Part 1 of 4
Top Trends for 2018 Highlight Greater Orchestration In March 2016, Constellation introduced four personas of the modern CMO (see Figure 1). This framework provided CMO’s with a model to think about the role of strategy versus execution and audience development versus audience acquisition. Over the past eight weeks, conversations with demand generation focused […]
Why Donald Trump should take the Infosys CEO gig
There’s only one thing in our world that keeps Donald Trump off the headlines… of course… it’s good ol’ Infosys! Yes, folks, we actually seem to care more about who is attending these board meetings and squabbling about the cost of refueling the company jet, than the nuclear warheads currently pointed at Pyongyang. Yes, people, the $10bn Bangalore-headquartered […]
The struggle is surreal
After so many decades, where are we? My new friend Connie recently introduced me to Donna Ferrato. I was a little star-struck. I had discovered her early in my journey to understand the “market” surrounding domestic violence. Donna’s seminal work as a photojournalist, gave the public an inside view into the shameful, secret horror of […]
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 […]
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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