Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Cloud Computing
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How can we best anticipate the future of a complex, fast changing industry like IT? Which hot technology innovations, – e.g., artificial intelligence, the blockchain, cloud computing, – will end up having a big impact and which are destined to fizzle? What can we learn from the IT industry’s 60-year history that might help us…
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What do we mean by platform? I particularly like this definition by MIT Professor Michael Cusumano: “A platform or complement strategy differs from a product strategy in that it requires an external ecosystem to generate complementary product or service innovations and build positive feedback between the complements and the platform. The effect is much greater…
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I’ve been closely following cloud computing for a number of years, having posted my first cloud blog in March of 2008. A few months later I gave a presentation at a cloud-based conference. The overall sense at that conference was that something big and profound was emerging in the IT industry. Cloud computing could well…
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A year ago, McKinsey Quarterly published a special edition, Management: The next 50 year, to commemorate its 50th anniversary. To illustrate how different the world was 50 years ago, its lead article characterized the 1964 environment with three key events: the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which was the first global telecast via satellite; the last…
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The Industrial Revolution led to the creation of many large and mid-size companies in which people worked together to produce goods and/or deliver services. Having a good job meant working for one such company. These workers, many of them unionized, enjoyed relatively secure, stable jobs and a number of company benefits, including health care insurance,…
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For the past few years, some have justifiably questioned whether innovation has been going through a period of stagnation, especially when compared to major 19th and 20th century innovations like electricity, cars and airplanes. Have we pretty much stopped solving big problems? “We wanted flying cars – instead we got 140 characters,” is how PayPal…
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I recently saw a very interesting presentation, – From Cloud to Fog: The Internet of Things, – by Cisco executive Michael Enescu. He tells us that the Internet of Things (IoT) is truly taking off, already comprising about 25 billion smart devices at the edges of the Internet, a number that’s expected to more than double…
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By now, most will agree that cloud computing is a major transformational force in the world of IT. But, cloud has not the easiest concept to grasp. Not that long ago, even people who agreed that something big and profound was going on, were not totally quite sure what it was they were excited about. “There…
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We are in the middle of a kind of digital perfect storm, where several major IT trends, – e.g., mobile, cloud, social, big data, – are each gathering speed while interacting with and amplifying each other. Every day brings new stories about the transformative impact of digital technologies on companies in just about every industry. …
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On April 7, 1964, IBM announced the Systems/360 family of mainframes. “System/360 represents a sharp departure from concepts of the past in designing and building computers,” said IBM’s then chairman and CEO Thomas J. Watson Jr. “It is the product of an international effort in IBM’s laboratories and plants and is the first time IBM…