6 Leadership Paradoxes for the Post-Pandemic Era
Graphical representation based on Linwand, Mani and Sheppard’s 6 Leadership Paradoxes for the PostNormal
Case #14 (Part 2): Your Smart and Autonomous e-Creatures
When is a designer, maker, or operator of autonomous smart device liable for damage or cost? How is the world changing with more autonomous digital entities?
Case #14 (Part 1): Perspectives on Technology, Post-Covid
CASE #14 (Part 1): LinkedIn’s Dan Roth asks speakers on where technology will be… and the world? INSIGHTS+OUTLOOKThe digital buzz may distract us from noticing a marked divide between HAVE DIGITIZED’s and HAVE NOTS. Yet as we connect “everything and everyone”, the problem is quickly global. The concern is not merely an untapped market potential:…
Case #13: Verizon Lays Out Its 5G Strategy
Telecoms are like highways in more ways than we’d admit: never the destination, nor even the view – yet there’s no getting there without ‘em. People think of 5G as merely faster phones. Verizon defines 5G in eight speed-throughput configurations that segment its markets.
Cases #11 and #12: Microsoft, HIBER, and our superconnected world
CASE 11: Microsoft Data Campus (Quincy): “Over a half-million server computers… more (data) than 50,000 libraries of Congress….” CASE 12: HIBER: Nano satellites for the first truly global IoT network. Great case study for private-partnering (e.g. with SpaceX) at new scales. INSIGHTS+OUTLOOK:Only 5-10% of internet data searchable; 90% unsearchable in the private Deep Web and…
CASE #10: You in a world of smart, interconnected and autonomous objects: are you master or passenger?
INSIGHT+OUTLOOK New Rules and Processes of coordination:Calling it an Internet of Things puts us off guard. Interconnecting autonomies logically lead to an internet of everything: all things, data, process, and people. Expect extensive partnerings and alliances, as we see in the autonomous electric vehicle case. Coordination and standardization lead to common platforms; but who sets…
Cases #08 and #09: Bots to Enhance, Extend, or Restore
CASE #8: ORCAM: a handheld smart device that seamlessly reads text for people with visual or reading difficulties. CASE #9: SKYDIO: Autonomous drone can see, understand its complex surroundings; plan and fly a path avoiding obstacles in close-proximity. INSIGHT+OUTLOOK: Virtual reality and Robotics:I have a Need. I either bring the Value (of the object or…
CASE #05: LUMI Keys: A Self-Directed Learning System
LUMI Keys: a self-directed music learning system integrated through sound, light, and color. INSIGHTS+OUTLOOK: The pandemic isolation has surely helped the market for personal entertainment and creativity. The LUMI is very directly hands-on, making for a fun way to learn and create music. An excellent application of technology and insights from gaming: fun challenges to…
Case #04: Samsung Note, aka the Pocket PC for Gamers?
Samsung puts a “PC in your pocket with power to do things unlike any PC”
The Big Divergence
How do severe discontinuities like the COVID-19 impact business, finance, technology, government, and even our way of living and working? Here we explore 25 key aspects of The Big Divergence, seen from the point of view of customers —both individuals and businesses—are longing for.