SaaS is evolving, not dying
There has been a lot of talk during the last two years about the Agentic era leading to the death of Software as a Service aka SaaS. In June 2024, the Salesforce stock slid more than 20% based on its quarterly earnings. It became especially loud recently when Satya Nadella recently stated his views in…
Aftermath of the tech layoffs: How to land job interviews
Tips on how to land job interviews
Google, ChatGPT and the Innovator’s dilemma
In the booming post World War US economy of the 1950s, the American companies like RCA and Zenith made a ton of money selling music consoles – elegant cabinets with integrated radios. It was part of the middle class living rooms. High quality wood and high quality radio. Sony, a small company back then, licensed…
Why broadcasters should adopt the cloud
The cloud is better suited for consumers on the internet. Newer technologies enable content heavy workflows in the cloud
Leveraging others’ innovation
Anybody who has gone through a slide deck on data has heard of three things. First, data as the new oil. Second, the value of the data is in the insights. Insights are generated by combining multiple sources of historical data And third, the amount of raw data generated in the world doubles every two…
Startups and Google Cloud: A match made in heaven
Startups lead change. They are building prototypes and trying to learn quickly what works and what does not. The cloud is a tool that allows for quick prototyping without huge upfront costs. It is an ally to all the entrepreneurs out there. Unfortunately, over the last few years, the time it takes for an entrepreneur…
Websites to Platforms
The internet started as a network of networks. We already had local networks (computers in a given building or organization connected physically) and then we found a way to interconnect the local networks with each other in one giant mesh. Hence the word interconnected network. Seen from a network perspective, the internet has 3 major…
Leaders as change agents
Middle managers focus on productivity improvements, while digital companies need to focus on innovation.
Profit seeking Vs. rent seeking behavior
There are two ways of making money. Profit seeking and rent seeking. Profit seekers increase their wealth by creating new wealth (usually through innovation). Rent seekers increase one’s share of existing wealth without creating new wealth. The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a property owner who installs a chain…
Cyber attack: The side effect of abstraction
In 2015, just before Christmas, the lights started going out in Ukraine. There was a cyber attack on its power grid, plunging entire neighbourhoods into darkness. Unlike conventional wars, cyber attacks offer dictators the option of plausible deniability. The IT infrastructure can become a source of vulnerability. What makes one’s environment susceptible to hackers? Unlike…
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