Digitalisation

Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Executing, Management, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Is Cloud deployment a Slam Dunk?

It’s never been easier to spin up Cloud infrastructure and get going. The obvious brands are, well, obvious – the Hyper-scalers, as they’re known – and they grease the on-ramp with free credits for start-ups; uploading and storing data is free; firing up a few instances is so simple. What could go wrong? Three trends…
Covid-19, Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Executing, Management, Trend Spotting

How Covid-19 caused an IT support issue

The jury’s in, and it’s good news for tech: Coronavirus gave everyone a great big shove and now everyone’s online for almost everything. It was always going to happen eventually, but Covid-19 made the transition of the next five years happen In five weeks. Consumers and business, Enterprise and SMEs, commercial and public sector. It…
Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Executing, Investors, Management, Strategy

The days of getting online are over

Robert Mason described it well. He said that when his flying instructor first gave him control of the pedals, the machine started swinging about wildly, and he hadn’t done anything! So true. You’d think that flying can’t be that much of a challenge, but it is, especially helicopters. My instructor gave me a stern talking…
Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Data seems to matter to everyone but people

So Norway is joining the space community and launching two satellites to deliver broadband to its northern regions up near the Arctic. The ground stations will be government run, they say it’s so that they remain in control, and the satellites are going to be carrying the latest defensive technologies like anti-jamming and protection against…
Digitalisation, Executing, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Scarlett O’Hara and what’s around the corner for tech infrastructure

The direction of travel: The thing about trends is that it’s never certain where they’re going to end up. If it was they would be journeys, not trends. Trends suggest a direction, like the road ahead on a murky day. Even then trends don’t necessarily tell the whole story about what might be just around…
Digitalisation, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Why the world is battling over 5G

Handsets, Speed and Money I never thought I’d feel nostalgic for 3G, but those were the heady days when handsets were starting to be about more than making calls and talking to people, and the UK Government raised a whopping £22.5bn from five mobile operators in a world beating spectrum auction. That was early 2000,…
Digitalisation, Trend Spotting

The future began a while ago

My phone connects up to the car’s Bluetooth system just fine, as you’d expect it to. Not that long ago it began to give me helpful information as soon as it connected: “15mins to get home, take Potter Row. Traffic is light.” Ok, it’s figured out where “home” is and that when I start the…
Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Trend Spotting

The Good, the Bad, and the Surreptitious

What is it about humans? Protest against the introduction of new technology is hardly new. How far back do you want to go? Agricultural workers were protesting in the 1830s about the new threshing machines that were undermining their livelihood. (Wikipedia) If the subject intrigues you, then try the excellent Shield of Achilles, which examines…
Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Management, Strategy, Trend Spotting

WhatsApp scuppers the B2B market

Diversity today is a key topic – how to achieve the right mix of talents, backgrounds and human characteristics in the teams we build and, in many ways, how to avoid missing out because we failed to include some. My project to test WhapsApp as a business channel has delivered some startling results already, and…
Digitalisation, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Subscriptions are so middle aged

Flock is great for flexible insurance for drone pilots – “Download the app for free to get a real time quote in seconds. Puts you in control.” Pay to use, when you use. It’s the Uber model – a simple and convenient app to access what you want, on the fly, pun intended. Who wants…
Digitalisation, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Where are Data Protection and Safe Harbor laws now?

So, we had been on track for the EU wide overhaul and harmonisation of data protection laws, and work had begun to sort out the stand off between the EU and US authorities over safe harbor provisions. Where’s all that now? Presumably, the UK will exit – it must do, I guess – and do…
Digitalisation, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Technology does it again

I’ve heard it said that photography released painters from the workload of capturing reality, freeing them up to do what cameras can’t do. I daresay that many painters might point out that they are capturing what they see as aspects of reality, but you get the point. Camera technology took over the great mass of…