Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Cloud Computing
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Despite the relentless advances of digital technologies, productivity growth has been declining over the past decade. Investment and interest rates have remained low, and income has continued to stagnate for the majority of workers in the US and other developed economies. The world seems to be stuck in a period of slow growth and no…
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In October of 2008, The Economist published a special report on a then relatively new, rapidly growing IT development, – cloud computing. In the lead article, technology editor Ludwig Siegele defined cloud computing by first giving a very succinct history of computing: “In the beginning computers were human. Then they took the shape of metal…
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Social physics first emerged over 200 years ago as an attempt to understand society and human behavior using laws similar to those of the physical sciences. But, it wasn’t until the past two decades that we finally had enough data, powerful computers and sophisticated mathematical algorithms to develop quantitative theories of human social interactions. We…
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About five years ago, McKinsey conducted an online survey of over 850 CEOs and other senior executives to find out how their companies were faring in their implementation of digital technologies and strategies. The data showed that executives were generally optimistic, but they still had much to do to achieve their digital business objectives. Organizational…
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In 2008 I gave a talk at a conference on The Promise and Reality of Cloud Computing. In his closing remarks, the conference organizer noted that most everyone had agreed that something big and profound was going on, but they weren’t quite sure what it was they were excited about. “There is a clear consensus…
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I was recently involved in two different meetings, each convened by an IT research organization focused on providing strategic advice to CIOs. My participation in each of the CIO meetings was in the form of a fireside chat with a senior analyst of the organization. Given that I’ve closely followed cloud computing over the years,…
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After many years of promise and hype, AI seems to be finally reaching a tipping point of market acceptance. “Artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere… it is proliferating like mad.” So starts a Vanity Fair article published around two years ago by author and radio host Kurt Andersen. And, this past June, a panel of global experts…
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Last year, IBM’s Institute for Business Value conducted a C-suite study aimed at identifying the key disruptive trends that will likely impact companies around the world over the next three to five years, as well as what their senior executives are doing to better prepare their organizations for the expected disruptions. The study surveyed over…
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Service Science emerged in the mid-2000s as an academic discipline aimed at applying technology and science to the service sector, – by far the largest sector of the US economy and of most economies around the world. Since its inception, IBM has played a major role in the continuing evolution of service science, coining the…
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The March 12 issue of The Economist includes a special report on the future of computing after the very impressive 50-years run of Moore’s Law. In his now legendary 1965 paper, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore first made the empirical observation that the number of components in integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention…