AI: “What’s reality but a collective hunch?”
In case you’ve missed it, MIT Technology Review has been doing a spectacular and somewhat sobering series on the current state of Artificial Intelligence, which I believe they plan to culminate in a dedicated year-end issue. And not a moment too soon. You know things have gotten out of hand when to say that the […]
Greed Is Good….
Could VC’s twist from their own petard? The first time I saw a venture capitalist was in 1974. Florsheim shoes, Brooks Brothers suit, school tie, horn-rimmed, tortoise shell glasses and according to my sources a pedigree that read like the marketing brochure from a trendy Cambridge sperm-bank: yada yada Harvard, yada yada Stanford, yada yada […]
The Elephant in the Room Just Got a Little Bigger
Meaningful Measures for Digital Strategies A few weeks back Gartner published a survey that got just about everybody’s attention. The survey consisted of 388 CEO’s and other senior executives. And the consensus that emerged was eye opening. Turns out a majority of CEO’s surveyed don’t see the payoff in emerging technology. Now to be fair, […]
Innovation: Power Laws, the Adjacent Possible and the Accumulation of Continuity
plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose You can do some really nifty things with math. For instance, were you aware that winning the lottery is not as hard as everyone makes it out to be? If you start with a universe of say 36 or 42 or 56 possible numbers you don’t have […]
HPE Builds a Boat in its Basement
But will it still float if they ever get it out? Recently, Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) has been losing ballast like a leaky freighter in a raging storm. Coming off the much anticipated separation of HP into HP and HPE there have been a number of additional strategic transactions executed by HPE including the sale […]
Revenge of the Thingies…
With the Dyn’s DDoS attack, the future of IoT just got much more daunting. About a week ago, somebody, who remains at-large, launched an exploit of Internet of Things devices that deprived numerous users access to several prominent Internet sites. This type of denial of service attack was not new; in fact, prescriptions to remedy […]
Platform Strategies in the Age of AI
In case you missed it, platforms are now the rage in technology strategy. To be current means that you need to be developing a platform to capture multisided markets of producers and consumers to exploit and capture network effects that ordinary pedestrian business models cannot hope to attain. And, unbeknownst to all but a few […]
Facebook: The Cadillac of Social Media?
Honey, I just wonder what you do there in the back… Leaving the Pew polls aside for a moment when I close my eyes I imagine the typical Facebook user to be increasingly female, white, high-school educated, and of lower middle class income. They are also increasingly empty nesters whose preferred vacation venue is a […]
AI: The Next Cambrian Explosion
Will open sourced AI prove productive or problematic? Science generally agrees that life here on the rock began about 3.8B years ago, loitering on the edges of Gowanda, trying to figure out how to exchange genetic material for fun and profit. Then about 3.2 or 3.3B years later something happened. Nobody yet agrees as to […]
Digital Strategies…a Practitioner’s Perspective
A few years back something curious happened with the advent of the internet. Thanks to the business press, ordinary, even pedestrian businesses suddenly became glamorous technology companies. Even today, sites that do little more than sell shoes are talked about as the next big technology IPO and their CEO’s are extolled as visionary because they […]
