Siri, Google Now, and Cortana are interesting as far as digital assistants go. Each have their strengths and weaknesses and each have their quirks and learning curves. Each of the digital assistants do seem to get better with use and certainly as the user gains experience with interacting with the assistant. You can perform tasks…
New Year’s Productivity
For one of my New Year’s resolutions this year, I committed to actually use more of the technology that’s at my disposal to increase my productivity. As an example, I’m actually dictating this post rather than typing it. This is technology that’s been embedded in my Mac for the last several years but I have…
Apple Mac Pro – A New Growth Paradigm
The announcement by Apple of the radically redesigned Mac Pro on June 10, 2013 was met with some mixed reviews. Most negative comments have tended to focus on perceived limitations of the new design relative to expandability. A recurring thread (if you allow me to extrapolate from only 24 hours worth of threads) is specifically…
Don’t Focus on the Cloud, Incorporate it!
In the world of technology strategy swings, the cloud and cloud computing offer the next opportunities for going overboard. The same way outsourcing created an extraordinary rush to outsource, sometimes regardless of business value, cloud computing provides the same risks and potential downsides if not approached appropriately and carefully. The use of cloud computing capabilities…
BYOD? At Last
The debate concerning BYOD or Bring Your Own Device has reached a fever pitch in IT and Corporate arenas. The topic is being brought to a head, not specifically through the personal computer channel as much as through the smart phone channel. Having said that though, the BYOD concept is relevant for the entire population…
Prioritization and Leadership
Leadership and managing conflicting priorities? Perhaps true leadership anticipates priority conflicts at the time of strategy formulation. When strategic imperatives are at odds, this should be apparent to leadership at the time the strategies are articulated. How about a rule of the roads that establishes a true precedence order in case things aren’t clear cut…
Kodak First, Is the Camera Next?
What to learn, what to learn? With Kodak’s bankruptcy filing, a large number of articles have been written about the root cause of Kodak’s failure – the failure to embrace a fundamental change in the photographic market from analog (film) to digital (jpg). What is more very interesting and imminent, is the demise of a…
The Dilemma of the Consumer Product Life Cycle (Part 2)
For a consumer, who directs their own purchasing behavior and exercises full control over whether or not the latest and greatest technology is better for them then last year’s purchase, the decision is an individual one. How does one position this strategically within a business setting rather than in a personal setting? Keep the technology…
The Dilemma of the Consumer Product Life Cycle (Part 1)
One only needs to look at the rapid fire, innovative change between Apple’s original iPad (released April 2010) and the iPad 2 (released March 2011) to appreciate a strategic, change management and investment dilemma. If a business had embraced the iPad at its initial launch and bought, let’s say, about 1,000 iPads to support the…
Keeping the IT Lights On
Run the business, or RTB, consists of all infrastructure, systems, and resources necessary to process and fulfill the transactional requirements for a business on a real-time, near real-time, hourly, shift, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually and other cyclical basis as required by that business. Any interruption to the RTB processes has a material effect on…