Java’s late flowering, Solaris cut back to roots.
At the risk of starting from the beginning, which is somewhat unfashionable these days in these days of Netflix box sets with complex chronologies, I am going to start at the beginning. Java, the language, was introduced on May 23, 1995, just as the Internet took off. Netscape’s initial public offering was just a couple […]
Equifax : Disturbing Developments
Credit-rating company Equifax’s data breach, which involves an estimated 143 million people, may not be the largest that we have seen, after all Yahoo lost billions of emails in a series of data breaches, most of them brought out to the public much later. Given the nature of data at play here, this is clearly […]
It’s Design Thinking heaven with TandemSeven as Genpact makes its OneOffice move
“You guys really should evolve your lean capabilities into Design Thinking with your clients” was my conversation with Genpact’s innovation lead, Gianni Giacomelli (pictured), a year ago. “You should also do that with your research clients” was Gianni’s response. Exactly a year later, we open our Research ThinkTank in Cambridge England to perform said exercises with our clients, and […]
Practices for Effective Distributed Teams
Alignment isn’t a wing formation (photo credit iStock by Getty Images) I’ve worked with distributed teams with my last three startups. I find that with the right practices distributed teams can be more efficient and effective, so long as you over-invest in certain things to make up for distance. To share best practices, I’d like to […]
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.
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Can Hard Work Beat Intelligence? [Hint: Wisdom Beats Both!]
People are curious whether hard work can beat intelligence? A similar question is “Can hustling harder make up for a lack of native talent?” The reason to wonder is obvious–we can hustle harder, but it is hard to manufacture more talent. Or is it? There’s really 3 things we should be considering, not 2: […]
Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 Adds 5G, Edge Computing For First Time
Gartner added eight new technologies to the Hype Cycle this year including 5G, Artificial General Intelligence, Deep Learning, Edge Computing, Serverless PaaS. Virtual Personal Assistants, Personal Analytics, Data Broker PaaS (dbrPaaS) are no longer included in the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 provides insights gained from evaluations of more […]
SuccessConnect- a higher calling?
We live in troubled times. They call for principled leadership, standing up for values, and for ignoring our darker angels. Whether that was the intention of SuccessConnect or not, I certainly walked away from the event with that message. Rob Enslin, President of SAP’s Cloud Business Group kicked off the event with a focus on […]
Lithium, Jive-X, and Some Thoughts
Wednesday Lithium announced they had acquired the code base and customers from Jive-X (the external community product from Jive). Let’s face it, this should be a non-event. At least, that is what I thought at first. After all, I wrote off Jive some time ago: great architecture, bad management, poor understanding of their target market […]
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 […]
