Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Month: March 2014
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Cloud, Services and the Transformation of Production
2 comments on Cloud, Services and the Transformation of ProductionEver since cloud computing first appeared in the IT world, people have struggled to define what it is and why it’s so important. “There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud computing is,” said the organizer of a 2008 cloud conference in his closing remarks. Just about everyone agreed that…
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I recently read an intriguing column, – The End of Mass Production, – by technology author and columnist Kevin Maney. I first met Maney several years ago when he was at USA Today, and have always enjoyed his columns and books. The mass production of standardized products is a defining hallmark of the 20th century…
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I recently read a very interesting article, – Big-Bang Disruption. The article was written by Larry Downes and Paul Nunes and published in the March, 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review. It was later expanded into a book, Big Bang Theory: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation published this past January. The authors’…
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Last week I wrote about innovation in the digital economy and some of the puzzling questions we are now wrestling with. Is innovation accelerating or slowing down? Have we stopped solving big problems or are we solving bigger problems than ever before? Is innovation in the digital economy fundamentally different from the industrial age innovation…