Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Month: January 2014
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A few weeks ago I read a very interesting online article: Why John Seely Brown Says We Should Look Beyond Creativity to Cultivate Imagination. John Seely Brown, aka JSB, was chief scientist at Xerox and director of its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). He is now the independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the…
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In June of 2008 I participated in a conference on The Promise and Reality of Cloud Computing. “There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,” said the conference organizer in his closing remarks. There was general agreement that something big and profound was going on out there,…
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A few weeks ago I participated in an online debate sponsored by The Economist around the question: Are Smart Cities Empty Hype?. I argued the case against the motion. In my opening statement I said that I strongly believe that digital technologies and the many data services they are enabling will make cities smarter and…
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Deloitte’s Shift Index aims to understand the long term transformations in the global business environment by tracking 25 metrics over more than 40 years. These metrics provide a comprehensive picture of the evolution and impact of advances in digital technologies and changes in public policy over that time span. The first Shift Index report came…
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I just finished watching season 1 of the American version of House of Cards, having watched the BBC’s British version a few years back. The lead actors in each version, Kevin Spacey and Ian Richardson respectively, are excellent, as is the rest of the cast. Both productions are quite dark, with strong overtones of…