
Humans are Taking Jobs Away From Robots, Not Vice Versa
First let me set the stage. I’m a big fan of Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson who are the authors of Race Against the Machine, a book which explore how technological innovation is impacting our jobs, skills, and wages- more specifically how technology is taking our jobs. Andrew McAfee was featured in my book, The […]

Dachis Business Summit – you know, the Social one!
Now look. I have a real problem with the term “Social Business” as it’s being used by Dachis and IBM and others. However, let me put that to one side for another post later this week, but it’s a thread that starts here and runs through my thoughts on the London edition of the Dachis […]

The Cloud & Enterprises
This is in continuation of the previous note: Thomas Friedman makes the case that Value creation is becoming so complex that no single firm can master it without closely collaborating with a wide set of partners. John Hagel brings this up : We are shifting from a world where the key source of strategic advantage […]

A tale of two conferences
A somewhat hectic June concluded with my second trip of the month to California. Whilst the first excursion led to Santa Clara and an interesting insight into attempts by Hitachi Data Systems to reinvent its relationship with the wider community, the second journey took me to San Francisco and a pair of events that lie […]