Experience? Engagement? Same Difference! Right?
ah, the wonders of having been there, done that, and having the t-shirt…. i actually have tons of t-shirts. i have not only done many things early, that’s what comes with being an analyst for 20 years – the wonderful challenge of working with early adopters guiding them to achieve the visions we concoct, but i […]
Is RPA officially the new outsourcing?
Just as many enterprises were running out of places to find more and more hidden costs they could quickly remedy through (yet) more outsourcing, along came their perfect new toy to unearth costs they had never thought possible to eliminate: RPA. Yes, folks, this stuff is just the thing to keep you occupied for the […]
The SaaStr Superhero Awards: Honoring the Next Generation of Women Leaders in Tech
It’s no secret that women who work in technology often turn out to be statistical underdogs. Even though women make up more than half of the total US workforce, they fill less than 20% of the country’s tech jobs. And these statistics look even worse from a leadership perspective—only 5% of startups are run by […]
12 things to ask yourself to make your presentation a success!
As a blogger, influencer on certain topics, and a Deputy Chair of the Cloud Industry Forum I regularly get asked to do presentations, and I regularly fall in to bad habits and forget some of the brilliant lessons I’ve learned over the years. In the last few weeks I’ve presented on digital transformation at a […]
Designing the Digital Workplace for the End-to-End Employee Experience
As digital becomes instrumental to virtually every aspect of how we do our work in organizations today, two parallel and closely related concerns have joined the industry discussion. These two concerns, workforce engagement (which technology can very much help with) and the employee journey, have risen as urgent topics and joined the overall conversation about […]
Introduction to TeamOps
TeamOps is the combination of practices, apps and cultural philosophies, prompted by the shift to group messaging like Slack beyond software developers.
Transitive Data Privacy: Behind Golden State Killer DNA and Cambridge Analytica
What you don’t share can still hurt you We are spending a lot of time discussing what happens to data when you explicitly or implicitly share it. But what about data that you have never ever shared? Your Cousin’s DNA We all share DNA — after all, it seems we are all descendants of a few tribes. But […]
Cloud Computing and vague recollections of the Anarchical Society.
Mark Zuckerberg says the world is much more divided than he ever expected https://t.co/EPPQLiMtYp #division pic.twitter.com/rxZ0iwbDu3 — World Economic Forum (@wef) April 7, 2018 elicited this magnificent response. Study STEM, they said. It’s not like a degree in Political Science and International Relations will ever be useful for anything… https://t.co/Z3CxQGHWAw — Eva (@evacide) April […]
We’re becoming obsessive social networkers with a huge appetite to learn from each other
Remember that 70’s movie “Logan’s Run” when, in the 23rd century, the population and the consumption of resources are maintained in equilibrium by killing everyone who reaches the age of 30? They found a simple fix to solve their problems. Today, we seem to be entering a similar situation with employment and intelligent automation: why not […]
Mostly analog in a digital world
By Vinnie Mirchandani on May 3, 2018
My friends in tech like to constantly talk about how fast technology is evolving. I like to remind them the supply side of technology is accelerating, the adoption and implementation of technology lags considerably. I got a reminder this week, following another earlier in the year how some processes have not evolved much since the […]
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