Chief Data Officer (CDO) positions have become increasingly commonplace in enterprises and other organizations during the past 17 years. Capital One and Yahoo! both appointed CDOs around 2002. A 2013 Gartner study found that over 100 companies employed CDOs—more than […]
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IBM closed on their merger with Red Hat this week. I’ve covered a lot of mergers over the years and, by far, most of them have been disasters. The first, and the most painful for me, was an IBM merger,
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Brand reinforcement is high on the agenda at IT vendor customer and partner conferences. After all, the vendors have access to big venues, professional production services and crowds of media on hand so explaining themselves and their strategies is natural.
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This week I was at the historic competition between IBM’s Project Debater and one of the top human debaters in the world and it was fascinating. It wasn’t just fascinating that an AI could even do this, but that the
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Both Chuck Robbins and Michael Dell went on camera (you can find the videos of the what they said here) talking about taxes and poverty at Davos this year and their positions are fascinating. Chuck Robbins believes that—with focus—companies like
One of the most common questions, or statements really, back in the 1990s was on whether Microsoft was evil. You could see how folks got there because—at the time—Microsoft was heavy handed, Netscape was claiming (accurately) that Microsoft was misacting
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IBM is one of the few companies that has been around for over a century. Sears is another one, having been started in 1886, but now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, there is some doubt that the retail giant will be
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A confluence of IT trends and achievements have made AI more achievable and affordable than ever before. That’s certainly good news, but it’s also wise to remember that AI announcements typically mirror a company’s specific talents and skills. So, in
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Rapid fire changes are to be expected in the tech industry, along with rising/falling fortunes, unusual market developments and sudden turns in conventional wisdom. That said, it’s difficult to think of an area where radical shifts occur more frequently than
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Over the past decade, the role of developers as agents of business and technological change qualifies as one of the tech industry’s biggest evolutionary shifts. It started with developers driving cloud computing and bring your own device (BYOD) adoption, then
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