Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Driving Value with the Metaverse in the Enterprise
No comments on Driving Value with the Metaverse in the EnterpriseA killer app is an IT application whose value to individuals and companies is relatively simple to explain, its use is fairly intuitive, and the application turns out to be so useful that it can singlehandedly propel the success of a new product or service. Word processing and spreadsheets, for example, were major factors in…
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“Companies in industries as diverse as finance, sports, health care, retail, oil and gas, and pharma are engaging in a wave of blockchain experiments,” write Gartner analysts David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau in their recently published book The Real Business of Blockchain. “Many see it as the solution for bringing trust and transparency to digital…
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I recently heard a very interesting presentation at the 2019 MIT CIO Symposium, – Why Companies Need an Augmented Reality Strategy, – by Harvard professor Michael Porter and James Heppelmann, CEO of PTC, an industrial software company. The talk was based on their HBR article A Manager’s Guide to Augmented Reality. We generally think of…
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I just read Tripping Down a Virtual Reality Rabbit Hole,- a very interesting NY Times column by technology journalist Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo recently spent a few weeks testing the Occulus Rift and the HTC Vive, two of the most powerful VR devices on the market. “The whole point of virtual reality is to create a fantasy…
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I spent the first week of November as Innovator in Residence at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. As part of my activities during the week, Dean Ernest Wilson hosted a conference on Social Media: Platform of Provocation for Innovation?. The half-day conference consisted of two panels: one on the social and technological innovation…
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I spent the first week of November at USC’s Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism. USC Annenberg is one of the largest and most comprehensive schools of its kind in the world, with research and educational programs in communications, journalism, public diplomacy, public relations, media, educations and related areas. It is thus in a unique…
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Last week I participated in the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The CIO Symposium is an annual one-day conference on the MIT campus, now in its sixth year, “where CIOs and other senior business executives from around the world gather to explore how leading-edge academic research and innovative technologies can help address the challenges faced in…
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Given my strong belief in the promise of virtual worlds applications, I follow closely their ups and downs in the maretkplace. Virtual worlds continue to be most popular in video games, massively multiplayer online environments and other consumer oriented applications. The number of applications in serious areas like education, business, government and health care remains…
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For the last three years I have been quite intrigued by virtual worlds and all the various capabilities we group under this term. I believe they are ushering a new paradigm for user interfaces, as well as a whole round of innovative, more human-oriented, intuitive applications. While many are excited by these possibilities, others remain…
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Last week I was in London, where I participated in a very unique lecture sponsored by Design London. Design London is an initiative announced last year to combine the creativity and expertise in design from the Royal College of Art, engineering from Imperial College’s Faculty of Engineering, and the business of innovation from Imperial College’s…