Six trends shaping IT cloud strategies, how businesses are protecting themselves from cybercriminals, and Adobe’s acquisition of Mettle’s SkyBox tools to expand its VR video portfolio are just some of the interesting stories we found this week to share with you. 6 trends shaping IT cloud strategies today. The majority of companies today, regardless of their business model, depend on technology …
The IoT, Qualcomm, and the Path to a Smarter, More Connected World – Part 2
In Part 1, we took a quick tour of what the IoT is, how globally transformative it is likely to be in the next two decades, and what role Qualcomm is quietly playing in making the IoT a reality. For the sake of brevity, we ended right as we were about to dive into what I see as the four …
Six Steps to Make a Massive Five Year Turnaround — Lessons from Sprint
Sprint had been on the brink of death. From 2009 to 2015, the company went from a solid third place among mobile phone providers to dead last. It was then the company decided on a comeback. Their six-step plan, reminiscent of other successful digital transformation strategies, has already shown signs of progress and growth. While at Pegaworld this year, I …
The IoT, Qualcomm, and the Path to a Smarter, More Connected World – Part 1
In business and in life, the most important discussions you will ever have may not be the ones that everyone else is having. If you have been paying extra close attention to what we choose to cover here in our insights, you may have noticed that we don’t always stick to the road most traveled when it comes to Digital …
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Making the Robots Smarter
If you’ve ever taught a dog to sit or shake, you’re familiar with the concept of reinforcement learning. Positive reinforcement is when an animal—or a child, if you’re lucky—learns a desired behavior based on the rewards it receives for the steps it takes to reach the desired outcome. For example, you give your dog a treat for sitting at the …
Adobe Helps Users Make All Things Digital with Adobe Scan
One of the biggest problems for companies in digital transformation is the issue of moving their hard copies to digital. In fact, most companies find themselves wrestling with a mix of new technology that makes digital a part of everyday life—and legacy systems or workflows that still rely upon paper signatures, files, and processes. As the mobile-only movement forges ahead, …
Improving Cities One IoT Device at a Time
OK—maybe one device at a time is a bit misleading. It’s been suggested that 16 billion devices will be interconnected by the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2021. Cities are expected to spend more than $40 trillion on IoT technology in the next two decades, and companies like Cisco, IBM, Intel, GE, and Siemens all have their hands in the …
Tech and Business Review: June 17, 2017
These last few weeks I’ve been in Vegas for the PegaWorld event, in Phoenix to meet with one of my business partners, to Prescott, AZ (where it was much cooler) and now I’m headed to NOLA tomorrow for the SHRM conference with my partner Eric Vidal and TalentCulture’s Meghan M. Biro for some immersion in the HR and HR tech …
Classroom Collaboration—Going Beyond Projecting Information
Teachers have been projecting images onto screens to present information to their students for years. Remember when they first introduced the whiteboard? The excitement over projecting images from a laptop or computer to the whiteboard opened up a whole new way to educate and engage children in the classroom. The whiteboard was just the beginning, though. New technology has allowed …
Key Takeaways from Cisco’s Cybersecurity Annual Report
In January, Cisco published its 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report, which gave a rundown of the challenges that face Chief Security Officers (CSOs) in today’s digital work environment. As part of the report, some 3,000 CSOs and security operations leaders from around the world shared their insights on what is plaguing their company. Headaches ranged from new emerging threats to chronic …