Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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The Gulf Between Planning and Reality
1 comment on The Gulf Between Planning and RealityIt’s way too early to know what really happened with the botched launch of Healthcare.Gov. We don’t know how it will all play in years to come and what its impact will be on the evolution of the Alternative Care Act (ACA), on election results over the next few years, or on President Obama’s legacy. …
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My friend and former IBM colleague John Patrick posted a very good entry in his blog on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare. As we all know, the ACA has had a rough start. In his entry, John asks two basic questions: do we need the ACA?; and, should it be repealed? John has…
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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded last month to professors Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen from the University of Chicago, and Robert Schiller from Yale University “for their empirical analysis of asset prices.” While there is general agreement that these three economists are most deserving of the prize, quite a few…
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In the first week of October I participated in a Cognitive Systems Colloquium hosted by IBM at its Thomas J. Watson Research Center. IBM defines cognitive systems as “a category of technologies that uses natural language processing and machine learning to enable people and machines to interact more naturally to extend and magnify human expertise…
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In the Fall of 2007, I taught a graduate course in MIT – Technology-based Business Transformation. The course focused on the major challenges that a business must deal with to successfully bring a disruptive innovation to market, including technical and market strategies as well as organizational and cultural issues. The course drew heavily on my…
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On May 22 I attended the 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. This year’s theme was The Transformational CIO: Architecting the Enterprise of the Future. “The enterprise of the future will be very different from the one we know,” wrote the organizers in the event’s website. “It will be complex, develop hitherto unforeseen forms, and will…
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Complex systems, whether natural or engineered, are composed of many parts. But it’s not the mere number of components that makes them complex. After all, stones are composed of huge numbers of molecules, yet we would not consider them complex. A truly complex system consists of many different kinds of parts, intricate organizations and highly…
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Digital technologies are enabling us to develop systems with huge numbers of interconnected components and sophisticated software that infuses them with seemingly unlimited capabilities. They are penetrating just about every nook and cranny of the economy and of society in general. And, they are profoundly changing the way all organizations operate, as well as our…
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On October 21 I participate in a Colloquium on the Frontiers of IT at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center. The colloquium, – which was part of IBM’s Centennial celebration, – brought together experts across industry and academia to discuss and debate the direction of four key Grand Challenges at the very leading edge of…
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I recently participated in MIT’s 2010 Systems Thinking Conference for Contemporary Challenges. This annual conference is sponsored by Systems Design and Management (SDM) – an interdisciplinary program between MIT’s School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management. The SDM program aims to provide mid-career professionals with a systems perspective that will help them address and…