Strategy

AI, Executing, Investors, Strategy

The Coming Storms for Technology Users

In today’s interconnected world, the escalating trade tensions between major global powers are creating ripples far beyond the immediate tariff impacts. While much attention has focused on disruptions to technology hardware manufacturing, the long-term implications for everyday technology users are only just beginning to surface. These emerging challenges are the gathering storm clouds on the…
AI, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Strategy

Who Owns and Controls What Technology?

The Art of Building Your Business on Third-Party Technologies In today’s fast-paced business environment, leveraging third-party technologies through APIs and interfaces has become a popular strategy for rapid market entry. This approach is particularly evident in the current AI application boom, allowing businesses to innovate quickly with minimal capital and technical expertise. However, this convenience…
AI, Executing, Management, Strategy

Why Drive Straight into a Traffic Jam?

It’s a traffic-Jam in the making, and hiding in plain sight. The Cloud computing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, one that can upend the carefully laid plans of UK SMEs who have come to rely on its seemingly limitless capacity, flexibility and predictability. The foundations of Cloud infrastructure are being stress-tested in ways few…
AI, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Does AI have a Best Before date?

Irony or prescience? On July 24, 2024, as tech stocks plummeted in a sudden AI-related market rout, researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh published a groundbreaking study in Nature. The paper, titled “AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data,” revealed a critical flaw in the development of artificial…
Entrepreneurs, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Trust and survival are intertwined for tech firms

Trust has been a big issue for all of time, or at least the 300,000 years humans have been around. Trust sensitivity has been baked into our DNA by selection, simply because the people most likely to survive and reproduce were those who were skeptical and mistrusting of anything that they didn’t already know. Change…
Executing, Investors, Management, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Latest News Reveals Business Risks in Cloud

The latest estimates show that the world market for Cloud infrastructure has grown by almost 20% in the last year, to $66.5bn in Q1 2023, and that’s 60% higher than two years ago. AWS is very much the leader with its Cloud revenues estimated at well over $25bn. All the leading hyperscalers have grown significantly…
Entrepreneurs, Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why Cloud gives tech firms a skills shortage

It’s almost twenty years since AWS publicly launched its first infrastructure service. Those early days of Cloud were chock full of promise: no more hardware ownership to worry about; scale infrastructure up and scale down, paying only for what you use. In many ways that headline promise has been realised. Much of the last two…
Executing, Investors, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Three ways Cloud may be holding back your Business Plan

Cloud has become embedded in many firms as the weapon of choice for accessing computing power and storage without needing to own hardware. However, while Cloud has many advantages, there are some important disadvantages that business decision makers must navigate. Sometimes, the underlying disadvantages of Cloud can be overlooked and only become apparent when real…
Digitalisation, Entrepreneurs, Investors, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Why we can’t ask ChatGPT if it’s the future of technology

I’ve often wondered whether insight is simply a particular kind of logic. Did Steve Jobs visualise the visionary Walkman by joining the dots and seeing an area where plenty of human activity took place yet recorded sound was missing? Was the iPhone an obvious step to take five years after Blackberry had proven the appetite…
Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why Operational people dominate the new Cloud era

Cloud technology has captured the headlines for years, and development teams have delighted in all the new services and capabilities that have been added. Rightly so. The race has been on to build new applications and get them running in the Cloud. Yet the emphasis has been shifting steadily, largely overlooked, and this shift has…
Executing, Management, Organisation, Strategy

Why using a new Cloud provider is getting even harder

Public Cloud services are widely available, and more and more firms are using these as a platform for their own technology services and systems. Tech teams, though, tend to have a favourite brand of Cloud, often out of familiarity or practicality. This can be a problem because there are several good, business reasons why firms…
Entrepreneurs, Investors, Management, Strategy, Trend Spotting

Are you ready for the Post Everything world?

How the world has changed in such a short space of time. Just three years ago, Trump was in the White House, Jeremy Corbin was almost in Downing Street, and Get Brexit Done was everywhere in the UK media.  It’s hard to think of a major business assumption that hasn’t been turned upside down since…