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MARCH 1, 2022

As we have moved to virtual briefings, I have increasingly been excerpting short video segments (with permission ) as part of my Analyst Cam series. HCL is a leading Indian outsourcing firm. Differently from some of its Indian peers, it.

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MARCH 6, 2014

At New Florence, the coverage covers a wide swatch including health tech, greentech, nanotech so end up researching obscure journals and magazines for stories. But you have to scan today’s USA Today, a mainstream newspaper, to see how tech coverage. Industry Commentary'

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Technology 236

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Ever since I researched these topics for The New Technology Elite, I have continued to marvel how complex technology supply chains have become: a) The need to demand forecast and plan for launch of several million units or just a. Industry Commentary'

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MARCH 3, 2015

My reaction was technology vendors, not just SAP, are actually inconsistent when it comes to global matters compared to companies like Unilever or. I read a few tweets today about how SAP does “global well” and how SuccessFactors reflects it. Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP)'

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

As Washington, London and other world capitals debate and revisit classical global trade thinking, a remarkable change has been happening in the technology world. SaaS, PaaS and IaaS competencies are becoming increasingly pronounced and vendors are recognizing the sheer scale.

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APRIL 17, 2017

In his annual letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos writes “I’ve been reminding people that it’s Day 1 for a couple of decades.” “Day Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death….To

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Technology 210

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MAY 12, 2020

I have been doing video interviews with a number of CIOs, software executives and practitioners about acrobatics they have been seeing in various vertical sectors during the COVID-19 crisis and the "New normal" they can expect as the economy wakes.

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JANUARY 16, 2016

Every time there is a big lottery drawing, I wonder why as a society we don’t make a few hundred millionaires, rather than award the big prize to a small group of people. While China and the market meltdown will.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Gartner used to publish an annual poster which rated systems integrators/outsourcers by industries, by geographies, by technologies, and other competencies. It was 1997. It was a large wall hanger with many rows and columns, and many analysts, including me, had.

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MARCH 18, 2011

Last week I wrote “After Sunday night with home based technologies, it is quite a let down to go in to work technologies on Monday morning.” This week I read about a Unisys poll about bringing the Sunday night experience.

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Technology 258

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APRIL 15, 2013

Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP is leaving to become CIO of UBS Group and this article has a comment "the idea of somebody moving from an IT services company into an end user company is quite uncommon" Actually it is. Industry Commentary'

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Technology 268

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MARCH 15, 2015

I write this as hundreds of media folk are in Austin at SXSW probably dissecting what happened to GigaOm. My perspective is more as media consumer – a voracious one who scrounges hundreds of articles for my blogs and my. Industry Commentary'

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MARCH 28, 2017

I heard a fascinating talk yesterday by Louis Richardson of IBM. He is part of their Watson cognitive computing group. Three things stood out a) His title – Chief Storyteller. Yes, seriously b) Almost zero content about Watson or IBM.

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Technology 150

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MARCH 21, 2011

While baseball spring training games beckon, over the last few weeks I have been conducting early research and interviews with some really smart folks around my next book which looks at the exciting convergence of technology consumption and production models:

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

I find myself in Toronto every few years and my image of the city has been one of a financial services capital, a baseball town, and a well-run large city – someone called it “New York run by the Swiss”.

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Technology New York 309

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JANUARY 10, 2011

One of the big ahas in researching my book was how much technology is being embedded in products by companies we traditionally do not categorize as tech vendors – the book cited examples from BMW, Hospira, Nike, Moen and several.

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OCTOBER 13, 2012

My wife and I enjoyed The Bourne Legacy. In my case, it was after I saw it the second time. The first time I missed many of the nuances behind the spyware and pharmacology that define the movie (as I.

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Technology 268

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JULY 19, 2012

Joe McKendrick quotes The New Technology Elite in his Forbes column “The list goes on, and points to a trend both Vinnie and I have been watching in recent years — the blurring of the lines between technology providers and.

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Technology 150

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MARCH 4, 2012

In my last book, The New Polymath, I used a somewhat old-fashioned literary style of a Prologue and an Epilogue. Drawing from the movie Field of Dreams I brought to life 10 Polymaths from the past – Da Vinci, Newton,

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Technology 218

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MARCH 9, 2012

The core of my new book is about 12 attributes of what I describe as the industry’s elites. 12 adjectives – 3Es, 3Ms, 3Ps and 3Ss - made the cut: Elegant, Exponential, Efficient, Mobile, Maverick, Malleable, Physical, Paranoid, Pragmatic, Speedy,

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FEBRUARY 28, 2012

As I watched bits of the Daytona 500 it hit me how adept the drivers are at taking advantage of the aerodynamics of the car ahead of them, while balancing the overheating from breathing the fumes of the car ahead.

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Technology 186

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Rob Carter, CIO at Fedex, is an executive I have long respected. Every event I have seen him present at, it has been in business terms – not geek talk. He made a comment, though, last year to Chris Murphy.

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Technology 231

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Quicken Loans says it has 30 years of lending experience and closed more than $140 billion in mortgage loans in 2013-2014. They say they have streamlined the mortgage loan process and it is “engineered to amaze”. A few weeks ago,

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MARCH 22, 2011

I was talking to Chris Murphy at InformationWeek recently about the theme of my next book. He talks to CIOs all the time and is on top of most mega trends in the industry. He agreed most industries are looking.

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Revenue Technology 247

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JUNE 24, 2015

Like most, I have watched many a “One more thing” announcement by Steve Jobs. While it made many run out and line up for blocks when Apple introduced that shiny new thing, it inspired the author in me to write.

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JANUARY 25, 2010

As I finish up on book on innovation, one of the most intriguing chapters I wrote was about the growing ethical issues being spawned by innovation and technology. Food/biofuel tradeoffs, God powers with nanotechnology and genome technologies, the thin line.

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Technology 186

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NOVEMBER 23, 2013

Kelly, the flight attendant, saw me shake my head as I entered my connecting flight to the Bay Area this week. I recognized the plane as an older Southwest 737-300 plane with no wi-fi. An email a few days prior. Industry Commentary'

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Technology Email 291

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JANUARY 23, 2012

My friend Brian Sommer recently pointed out “On 5/14/2012, SAP, NetSuite, Plex Online, Host Analytics and other vendors(?) are all having their user conferences.” Clearly, that will be a busy news week. But it made me think about the news.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024

I watched a replay of a webinar run by Carter Lusher and Duncan Chapple which focused on Gartner’s and Forrester’s recent earnings and their influence on technology markets. Both Carter and Duncan are long term watchers of IT Analyst Firms.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

The pace of technology innovation continues to accelerate - New Florence just had a record month of posts. This Harvard Business Review article and the graph from it below show technologies are getting adopted. But innovation without adoption = duds. Industry Commentary'

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Technical Review Technology 312

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

I was reading Tim Cook of Apple: “It’s interesting to me—and I think this is a privilege for Apple—just like we’re sitting down at this table today, I get e-mails all day long, hundreds, thousands per day from customers who.

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APRIL 15, 2024

She has been focused on deploying technology to drive business outcomes in this sector for 25 years. For the 117th episode of Burning Platform, we host Patrice Cappello, Managing Director of the Professional and Business Services vertical at Workday.

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JULY 12, 2010

Consumer Reports says it cannot recommend the iPhone 4. No bowing to mighty Apple. And it reminded me how few such emphatic calls we have in tech. We don’t call BS on software quality – the torrent of Microsoft bugs.

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Technology Software 247

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On October 7 while presenting in Vail, CO, I thought I had an attack of altitude sickness (not unusual me coming from sea level in Florida). The medics disagreed and had me checked into the Swedish Medical Center in Denver.

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Denver Florida Technology 264

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JUNE 23, 2011

We have seen it in the movie Godfather. We have seen it hilariously parodied by Billy Crystal in the movie Analyze This (see clip below). It is a meeting where the Cosa Nostra – the major US Mafia families -.

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Technology 199

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

My colleagues there were doing Congressional Hearings, had thrown out a number of $600 billion for enterprises to fix the Y2K bug – stuff which woke up CEOs and Boards to their technology challenges.

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Technology Vertical Global Software 260

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

He is an IT analyst, consultant and regular contributor to a number of technology publications including Diginomica and AvidThink. In the 57th episode of Burning Platform, we host Kurt Marko of MarkoInsights. Coming out of Stanford with a BS and.

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