Today’s pandemic is a humanitarian and economic disaster but if this were 2005, the economic ruin would be much worse. This summer, despite the pandemic, tens of millions of white-collar workers were not laid off. Their jobs were saved by broadband access, Bring Your Own (BYO) and major executive attitude changes. In the face of…
Starting in 2021, pandemic abandoned office space will be repurposed to indoor farming and food production. The pandemic has had a significant impact on commercial building usage. Shuttered businesses, reduced workforces, working from home have emptied office spaces, especially in cities. It’s very likely that much of that space will not be refilled when the…
CEO’s top technology priority in 2021 is blockchain, especially in the fintech sector. Five blockchain opportunities revolutionize banking and financial services for business and central banks’ adoption. As more emerging/new fintech blockchain services are available for adoption, existing financial services will require refresh/retro-fit upgrades. Banks, credit unions, and financial services must revolutionize their traditional services to be relevant within five years!
Despite widespread hype, analysis of objective data suggests strongly that WFH has reduced productivity while increasing costs for most firms. Given current COVID resurgence and business uncertainty, it is inadvisable that any long-term WFH strategy should be decided upon through at least YE2021. Subjective Support After reviewing more than 200 reports, research notes, articles, and…
It’s not just AI, of course. It’s the effects of the combination of the intertwining of analytics, automation and AI (A3) and the different ways and paces various telcos experiment with and embrace the revolutions that A3 will bring. The differences in ways and paces will create three new and different classes of telcos –…
Harsh criticisms of the scientific foundations of AI are accumulating and the trend sped up steeply in 2020. This may delay AI deployment by some years but it will do the technology (and you) well.
Predictions of things past are far easier than predictions of the future. Most predictions are more likely wrong than right. Learn from that experience.
By 2025, one third of robotic process automation (RPA) projects will reveal opportunities to accelerate and diversify revenues, but over half of those opportunities will be missed by obsessive focus on the bottom line.
