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The Internet of Things (IoT): when everything is “a thing”
Gartner and others project that the Internet of Things (IoT) will have close to 30 billion devices interconnected in 5 years. While we wait for technology and standards to catch up and allow that...
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Digital Transformation: the need for buzzwords
This is the first of blog post series covering the much discussed topic of Digital Transformation. As buzzwords go, Digital Transformation is topping many lists lately, as attested by news headlines...
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Digital Transformation: Digital Darwinism or survival of the nimblest?
This is my second blog post covering the topic of Digital Transformation. You can read the first one here. As Digital Transformation continues its buzzword journey through the Gartner hype cycle –...
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Digital Transformation: the new digital is not about ones and zeroes
This is my third blog post covering the topic of Digital Transformation. Read the first and second ones too. At this point, almost every large organization has some kind of a Digital Transformation...
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Digital Transformation: Undigitizing the intangible “digital fridge”
Fans of Star Trek are very familiar with the concepts of the food synthesizer (in the original series) and the replicator (The Next Generation): The so-called ‘replicators’ can reconstitute matter and...
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Digital Learning: Beyond the copycat model
As organizations progress through their digital transformation journey, one of the areas that have the biggest potential to be revolutionized by a novel approach is Enterprise Learning. However, many...
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Digital Learning and the Sharing Economy
In a business environment where the flavor of the moment is digital transformation, how does corporate learning fit in? What are the main digital trends that will have a transformational effect on the...
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Digital learning and the invisible Digital Divide
As organizations embrace mobile, social, big data, and cloud solutions, and as digital literacy becomes a prerequisite for the workplace, a very large contingent of people is silently left behind...
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Digital casualties: protecting your privacy is not fully In your hands
Last year, the Harvard Innovation Lab produced an interesting video showing the evolution of the desk from 1980 to 2015. That video showed the dramatic transition that happened from atoms to bits over...
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Digital casualties: a new trust awakens
Last month, we discussed how privacy became a casualty of the digital revolution: like immunization, we depend on others to protect our personal privacy, and that dependency is making us all more...
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Digital casualties: digital diversity at the workplace
This is the third “digital casualties” post. You can read the first two here and here. As we transition to a workplace increasingly reliant on the so-called digital technologies, where much of what is...
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Digital casualties: analog talent and foraging behavior
This is the fourth and final post on “digital casualties.” Check out the first three posts here, here, and here. As all things digital get most attention these days, there may be a tendency to forget...
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Digital futurism, UX, and streams: tomorrow will look like yesterday
Having been in the field of emerging technologies for many years now, often people ask me “what is next? What will technology look like many years from now?” My answer invariably is: “I don’t know,”...
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An undigital revolution of sorts
Even though binary representation is nothing new, being invented in the 17th century, and early reasonable manifestations in Ancient Egypt and China – think Yin and Yang as one of the oldest...
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Machine Learning: a digital Cambrian explosion about to happen
Evolution as understood by Charles Darwin was supposed to happen very slowly and gradually. That’s why he, and many other scientists, were puzzled by an event that happened about 540 million years ago,...
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Cryptocalypse Now: hacking from the future or a Y2K déjà-vu?
If you have not heard about quantum computing yet, you will very soon, from both likely and unlikely sources, including Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Staged or not, the explanation provided...
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Close up, nobody is normal: Generation clash or ageism?
Disclaimer: This is an updated writing of a post I wrote 8 years ago for a blog that no longer exists online, but the generational theme has never been so current. A quick comparison in Google Trends...
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Digital futurism, machines that learn, and the end of (our) jobs
The holiday season and the first few weeks of every year is a time to reflect on the old and getting ready for the new, with no shortage of predictions about what the future will bring us. One of the...
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Digital fear or digital hope?
By many accounts, the oldest person alive now is Emma Morano—likely the only living person born in the 1800s. It’s mind-boggling to realize that the initial works on the New York subway system, the...
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Digital is plural
As companies embark on their digital transformation journeys, some tend to pursue that continuously moving target of binary perfection with the traditional mega-program enterprise approach: setting up...
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