Frenemies tied the knot Comcast advertising Netflix as a feature of its cable TV service would have raised eyebrows once. These days Comcast’s Xfinity service brochures routinely feature Netflix access as a prominent feature of the service. How did two ferocious rivals who tried to outsmart each other just a few years ago become allies and …
Rainbow of Decisions: Business & Technological As we embark on a new year, three awe-inspiring words are on many lips: Digital Business Transformation. Talking about digital is akin to describing large pachyderms by touching various parts of their bodies. Let’s admit. Digital is complicated. Digital is complicated because we communicate in different wave lengths simultaneously. …
We all know this presidential election cycle is unprecedented. I won’t enumerate the reasons for it. I’m sure you have your favorite ones. Among other factors, I find it unprecedented because of the sensation I have had about it until last week. I had been comfortably numb! Unlike other elections where I had been a …
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Last week we celebrated the International Women’s Day. We cheered, we lamented, we measured progress, or the lack of it. A friend quipped on whatsapp: “In 1816 women had no rights, in 1916 they had some rights, in 2016 they are always right”. On a long flight from San Francisco to Istanbul, I reflected on how …
The hue and cry over Uber’s well-known and much-maligned taxi service is reaching a crescendo. Lawsuits, labour law reviews, strikes, violence, safety and privacy concerns etc. are just a few of the issues surrounding Uber. Regardless, Uber’s service is striking a chord with all of us at multiple levels. It’s a cool app and is very “techy”; …
The promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) to create unprecedented economic value is a dominant topic of recent technology & business stories. What would it take to create and capture value from connecting vast number of unconnected physical objects to the Internet? A while ago, I talked about how the dance between business and technology in this …
It’s a Friday night. I am perched on a cozy corner of my couch, wine on one hand, my smartphone on the other. The smart TV is on. I am pulling up House of Cards on Netflix via the phone, projecting it to the TV via Google Chromecast. Life is good! And then I start to …
Meandering in the new year In the touchy realm of leadership Like I pondered here The quirks of strategy Is leadership like music With its many kinds Some we like and some not Music nonetheless Are there hues to leadership Like the Blues Delta, Chicago Texas and more Are leaders like these players Breaking norms …
Lately, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become de rigueur in the computer networking world. Before purpose-built networking devices came in to existence, networking was done via software running on expensive computers. That legacy makes the phrase software-defined to refer to networking superfluous. Clearly we must mean something more than just software when we talk about …
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