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. …
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”; …
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; …
Over the past New Year holidays, I came across a Japanese proverb that made me reflect on strategy (yet again) in the world of business: on how much this word is used, re-interpreted; on how much people aspire to be “strategists”; on how firms develop vision-mission statements and how they are put in to practice; on …
Recently I wondered about how enterprise IT stacks are morphing from a product stack to a services stack and that we are on a path to Prefabricated IT. Let us now look at how morphing of technology, enabled by a new delivery model could change IT and the outsourcing business. Prefab IT Aligns with Outsourcing …
In Part III of this series on business models (See Part I, Part II here), let’s look at how technology, hardware or software, and services interact and the blurring distinctions between technology and service. Those distinctions ultimately are distinctions between humans and technology. We’ll end this with a note on the esteemed Olympian from London …
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 …
How has Utility Computing evolved over the last few decades? Where do we trace its immediate heritage back to? In a previous post I discussed how virtualization technologies evolved in the last 50 years? Let us now look at how the age-old concept of multi-tenancy coupled with virtualization technologies – Virtual Machines, Virtual LANs, Virtual …
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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