Connected World
Billions of Things and Cyber Security
Over the last many months, I have been engaged in great conversations with colleagues about what cyber security will look like when we have billions of things connected in our future hyper-connected IoT world. How do you control and manage cyber security and illegal access when you will have tens of billions of connection points?…
Read MoreWhy is Your Company Resisting Using AI???
This article in Financial Times refreshed a question that I have been struggling with for a long time: Why are companies hesitant to use AI? AI is all around us and everyone has heard about it. Large companies with massive engineering staff are refusing to use AI, and I think this article points out one…
Read MoreWhy Zoom Won and Skype Lost
Skype has been around for decades. Pre-Pandemic, Skype was a global standard. Microsoft had high hopes when they purchased Skype at a very high price in 2011. Around that time and in the coming years, some had heard of Zoom, and there were many other competitors as well. Let’s remember that Skype as a Microsoft…
Read MoreCan Airlines Survive the Worst Year in Airline History?
Even with a COVID 19 vaccine looming in the future, it will be a long time before we will be traveling in masses for client meetings, go to large gatherings, or see millions of travelers take trips around the globe. I have taken five trips in the last month and flown mostly empty planes. The…
Read MoreHow are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Investments Doing in 2020?
2020 has been a challenging year! While it seems the world has stopped while we deal with the pandemic, innovation in areas such as AI skyrocket. So, what is the AI investment landscape in 2020? As of June 1, 2020, about 800 VC AI deals have been conducted for a total of about $9B. Note…
Read MoreAt What Point is Virtual Insane?
Since Feb of 2020, thousands of conferences and events have either been straight-up canceled or have attempted to go virtual. I respect, for example, SXSW which did not attempt to do a half-baked virtual replacement for their conference. It seems that many conferences are acting desperate and unable to accept this delay during the pandemic…
Read MoreApple, Blood-Oxygen, & You!?
The new Apple Watch 6 is boasting a blood oxygen monitor (amongst other health monitoring as well). In theory that is great. Love it. In reality and practically speaking, the question is where does this data go, what happens with this data, and how does the consumer (you) benefit? Unless we solve the last mile…
Read MoreiPhone 11: A Culture-Maker!
This is so hard to imagine. While the iPhone 11 was announced this week in a very Apple-rock the world-debut, people who purchased their iPhone 10 for over $1000 only a few months ago are ready to dump 10 for 11… the main reason: Not because of any critical phone feature but rather a 3…
Read MoreThe Evolving World Of The Digital Insurance Industry
For decades, the insurance industry has been highly profitable and operated in the same manner. You buy insurance for everything of value you own, rates increase each year, and if something happens you get remunerated. Be it your house, car, valuables, boat, RV and all other. Nothing is excluded really. In the new era of…
Read MoreInversion, IoT & The Hyper-Connected-World
Inversion is the paradigm shift allowing all companies to think needs-first vs product-spec-first and focus on enhancing consumer experiences for all products. The paradigm shift has new software architecture considerations. In our book, The Inversion Factor, we have identified four essential principles—connectedness, composability, recruitability and immersion—that all stakeholders can use to develop and build the next wave of…
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