It has become commonplace to hear news from the Big 5 in technology – Facebook-Microsoft-Apple-Google-Amazon. FMAGA for short, if you are like me and can’t recall who is in the Big 5 club. One day we hear from them about the cloud or the Internet of Things. The next day we hear about new phones, …
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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 …
It has been said that the 2nd decade of a century brings about change at an accelerated pace. So I scurried, looking for evidence. The 2nd decade of the 20th century was devastating with the Great War (1914-1919); the 1810s saw the War of 1812 between Britain and the USA as well as the Napoleonic wars; …
Several years ago I visited Parfumerie Gallimard in Grasse, France. Grasse is famous as the perfume capital of the world and Gallimard is the 2nd oldest perfumery in the world. There I learnt about how the les nez (“noses”– the perfumers who compose perfumes with their fine-tuned olfactory senses) create new perfumes. The vocabulary used to describe …
Over the history of humans, there are instances where one set of people mistook another for gods. Much disputed accounts exist of Hernan Cortez being mistaken for god by the Aztecs or Captain Cook by the Hawaiians. White men discharging firearms were construed as creating thunder and lightning. Basically, unfamiliar technology wielded by one human …
In previous posts on utilities, I talked about the evolution of common utilities like water, gas, electricity, and lately computers (Part I), and utilities that connect us like transportation networks and communication networks (Part II). Now we have virtual social networks on a virtual transportation network. In this post, let’s de-construct that virtual social network to see …
A few years ago we were traveling in Portugal and passed through a beautiful town called Óbidos in central Portugal. Óbidos, an old Roman settlement, was repeatedly bequeathed by Portuguese kings to their queens as wedding presents. The town is also known for a famous 17th century painter called Josefa de Óbidos whose baroque works …
Lately I have been reflecting on how consumption of technology is shifting from products to services, enabled by a utility business model. I referred to it as consumption shifts right, enabled by cloud. Let’s look at how that shift is starting to affect traditional IT stacks. I grew up seeing buildings built brick-by-brick. Each brick …
In Part I of this series of posts on business models, on whether we have new business models in the Information Technology sector, we looked at comparing business models using a Product-Service-Software-Hardware plane or PSSH Plane shown below, with quadrants representing the primary business models of firms. We examined the so-called “new business models” in the …
It is rare for a work day to go by for me without a conversation that includes the phrase new business models. That phrase is often surrounded by other phrases du jour such as cloud, virtualization, consumption etc. Throw in XaaS and the day is complete. XaaS could mean SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, BPaaS etc. or …
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