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Jobsageddon: Why Automation isn’t the Grinch that Steals Jobs?
More than 125 years after we started observing “labour day”, ominous headlines scream of jobs decreased dramatically by technology. Countless opinions and studies project how Artificial intelligence (AI) will take away jobs and reduce the affected humans to heaps of despair. AI-graduating-from-college-to-replace-workers dominates political debates. Should technology-driven automation be our sole concern about reduced demand …
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The High Road — Just Take It
Is a flag merely an expression of patriotism? Does it evoke other emotions? Is a flag a type of logo? Will a logo embrace a flag? Will a logo be a flag?
How the Big 5’s Mega Battle to Control the 3C’s is Unfolding
It has become commonplace to hear news from the Big 5 in technology – Facebook-Microsoft-Apple-Google-Amazon. FMAGA for short, if you are like me and can’t recall who is in the Big 5 club. One day we hear from them about the cloud or the Internet of Things. The next day we hear about new phones, …
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Is Facebook the AT&T of the 21st Century?
Two communications giants. What makes them similar and different? AT&T as Ma Bell ruled the roost as the biggest communications company for over a 100 years. It had a plethora of technology inventions, 100 million subscribers, and over a million employees before its break-up in 1984. Today, Facebook has well over 2 billion monthly active …
M&A and Venture Strategy: IoT = IT + OT
The convergence of IT and OT has dramatically altered the investing landscape. The convergence of IT and OT dramatically alters investing activities in corporate development. We wake up routinely to the news of one acquisition or another. Most stories repeat the refrain, “Big fish bought little fish”. We hit snooze and move on. However, lately …
Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy: IoT = IT + OT
How to rethink your go-to-market (GTM) strategy for a connected world. We can build the best camel there is. But can we transport the camel to the right buyer? Do you have the right pallet for it? The right go-to-market (GTM) strategy is needed to ensure you have product-pallet fit to reach your buyers. Beyond …
Product Strategy: IoT = IT + OT
Reimagine your products for a connected world. Many years ago, I used the phrase IoT = IT + OT as shorthand for how information and communication technologies (ICT) need to be integrated with operational technologies (OT), and how IT organizations and business operations teams need to work collaboratively in order to realize value from IoT. …
IoT Killer App is NOT the Clichéd Predictive Maintenance
For years we have been hearing about the virtues of IoT and specifically how Industrial IoT (IIoT) is the cure for inefficient machine maintenance and unplanned downtime. While all that is true, if zero-downtime (“ZDT”) was such a pain, why aren’t we all rushing to get connected and drive maintenance costs down and uptime up? …
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Election 2016 & Leadership: Beyond Comfortably Numb
We all know this presidential election cycle is unprecedented. I won’t enumerate the reasons for it. I’m sure you have your favorite ones. Among other factors, I find it unprecedented because of the sensation I have had about it until last week. I had been comfortably numb! Unlike other elections where I had been a …
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