As an engineer and closet sociologist, I love stories about cultural change — especially those brought about by modern technology. I’d like to share one that came to my attention recently … It is well known that the pace at which the average Indian is being freed from the bureaucratic heritage left behind by British [...]
Teardowns are the bread and butter of the consumer electronics and automotive industries. (An example of a teardown of the Nintendo 3DS [IEEE Spectrum, June 2011], is appended at the bottom of this post.) I recall product teams at GM tearing apart the latest cars from the competition. While it bothered me that a perfectly [...]
Mobility and mobile apps for the enterprise space have been on my mind and on that of my team of late. In a recent blog, I looked at mobility from the customer’s perspective. Kosin Huang wrote about the benefits that mobile apps and devices bring to SMBs. I was, therefore, very interested in Dennis Howlett’s [...]
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal (July 28, 2011; page B5) had an article by Joe Mullich entitled “5 questions SMBs should ask when going mobile.” The article identifies 5 questions: How can you ensure your information always stays safe? Can your device match your workforce’s stamina? can the device accommodate changing needs Can workers perform tasks [...]
John Wilkinson, SAP’s VP of Business Analytics for Global Ecosystem and Channels, joins me in my latest quarterly SAPInsider “SME Insights” column to explore how small businesses and midsize companies are overcoming three important challenges that they have traditionally facedin making good, data-driven decisions: ensuring the integrity of information, democratizing the availability of information, and [...]
About two decades ago, General Motors dangled an intriguing problem in front of me — “Can you help us get robots to work with humans? We need to do this; otherwise OSHA is going to fine us!” I turned down academic offers and decided to spend “a few years in industry” working on this problem [...]
In the “10 Questions” section of the June 20, 2011 issue of Time Magazine, historian David McCullough shares his thoughts on the impact of the dying art of letter writing on the study of history. He’s concerned about “… the loss of the process of working out your thoughts on paper, of having an idea [...]
I’ll start off by admitting that I am a big fan of Lady Gaga’s — more for her market savvy, somewhat for her music (even if I am, sad to say, tone deaf), and less for her over-the-top clothes. So, it wasn’t a big surprise that an article entitled “Lady Gaga Romances India – Taps [...]
Somewhere over Nova Scotia, June 6th, 2011 – I write this as I ride on Lufthansa’s AB380 en route San Francisco – Frankfurt. I had to ride on this plane, ever since I saw it swing by, towering over us, while on an earlier trip to Orlando precisely 3 weeks ago. Ok, I’ll just admit [...]
Orlando, May 17th, 2011: Bill McDemott and Jim Hagemann Snabe, SAP’s co-CEOs, just delivered their keynotes — and in doing so, advanced SAP’s efforts (read my recent article on this topic — “SAP’s best kept secret”) to tell the world about its offerings for SMBs. They highlighted Under Armour and FreshDirect — customers that are [...]
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