For years I joined the trek to Mobile World Congress and fought my way through the surging throngs in both the old and new Firas in Barcelona. It was both a genuinely global event and an ideal environment for contageous diseases to spread, with crushes of tired delegates pushing against each other to get from…
Note: here is a new action-oriented article that incorporates this material by reference. The coronavirus has killed over 1,300 people thus far[1]. Loss of life and other human costs — think of the guests and crew quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship off Yokahama[2] — are far more important than commercial implications. Headlines Nonetheless,…
On Monday 3 February 2020, Iowans caucused at almost 1700 precincts across the state to select their preferences among presidential candidates. Three days after the Iowa caucuses, the final tallies for the Democratic presidential candidates remained incomplete. The popular press blames a technical glitch in the Shadow app, but accountability resides with party leaders and…
On February 4, 2020, Koch Industries announced it had acquired the remaining 30% of enterprise software company Infor making it the sole owner. Golden Gate Capital had primarily held those remaining shares. Koch has been investing in Infor for the last several years, increasing its share to 70% last year. Given that Koch has had…
The bombardment of “Digital Transformation” imperatives is generating confusion and cross purposes for enterprises. Digital transformation means different things, depending on who you talk to. Analysts, like myself, assert (see this prediction) that organizations need to transform their digital capabilities and approaches now to compete in the future. But digital transformation is the tip of…
In my first Analyst Syndicate post, I talked about the ongoing IT-OT civil war and why a CIO or other tech-related CxO needs to actively address the issue to get the most from Digital Transformation. The questions that blog raises has prompted this blog post about what the roots of the tribalism Prediction 2020 revealed…
Predictions of things past are far easier than predictions of the future. Most predictions are more likely wrong than right. Learn from that experience.
