tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3643474172995216152024-03-13T08:13:29.019-04:00DeepakSethSpeakFollow me on Twitter @SetDeepDeepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-70957432517324409482023-04-25T10:18:00.001-04:002023-04-25T10:24:12.555-04:00Generative AI: No need to Fear!<p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlihXtCTRP8Wqxwn5YPiceY9ayG8yGfxkRNjWhlcbvY26iO7Jz2dsmOCFaC4l9lXzjkJZl-Jnb618mLXJ7rrtWF1OQA-hikcKbDg3UVlyrZ53NpGuDu0jbFyY_Ta4RzGRiOMLzILR6-kQrzga8EcFbkHqgoAVtqSn-gOPprkZCW6BM_NUw_A_pAfu_zA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhlihXtCTRP8Wqxwn5YPiceY9ayG8yGfxkRNjWhlcbvY26iO7Jz2dsmOCFaC4l9lXzjkJZl-Jnb618mLXJ7rrtWF1OQA-hikcKbDg3UVlyrZ53NpGuDu0jbFyY_Ta4RzGRiOMLzILR6-kQrzga8EcFbkHqgoAVtqSn-gOPprkZCW6BM_NUw_A_pAfu_zA" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">I</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">n an <a href="https://www.worxogo.com/power-of-behavior-design-and-ai/" target="_blank">interview in late 2020</a> I had spoken at length about the "Fear of AI". Now, I can see some of the same fears manifested in context of </span><a data-attribute-index="0" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=generativeai&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7055187822411993088" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">#generativeai</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> (ChatGPT, Bard and others) . However, what I said for AI in general then, still holds true for generative </span><a data-attribute-index="1" href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ai&highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7055187822411993088" style="background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-link-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: var(--font-weight-bold); line-height: inherit; margin: var(--artdeco-reset-base-margin-zero); overflow-wrap: normal; padding: var(--artdeco-reset-base-padding-zero); position: relative; text-decoration: var(--artdeco-reset-link-text-decoration-none); touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); word-break: normal;">#ai</a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> now:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">----------------------------</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">First of all, this fear of AI is not actually a fear of AI per se. It is the fear that humans have towards anything new or different, especially on the technological side. It has happened through the ages from when humans first discovered fire. When the loom was invented in England, there were a group of people termed “Luddites” who went around breaking the looms because they thought that looms would take away their jobs as weavers. Horse cart drivers thought their jobs would go away when cars arrived. Yes, the jobs did go away but society evolved new kinds of jobs and new kinds of roles.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">In the same continuum, now AI has taken that place of a new technology that we don’t fully fathom, and we don’t know what it can do to us, so people are scared of it.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Every piece of technology that has emerged over the years has helped us become better humans, or at least we have strived to use it in a way that helps us become better humans. I’m sure artificial intelligence will help us become better humans, and will expose newer dimensions of the human experience which we have not experienced so far.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">When there were no cars, there was some dimension of speed and connectivity missing. Then when automobiles came about, we discovered that. That helped us get better. When airplanes came in, it made the world smaller. We may not be aware of what doors or avenues artificial intelligence may create right now. But that doesn’t mean that we should take the view that all of it will be bad. As an optimist, I believe most of it will be good, some of it will be bad. Every technology is a double-edged sword. But hopefully, ultimately, it will all work out for the betterment of society.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">------------------------------------------</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;" /><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9)" face="-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">What are your thoughts? Is Generative AI something to be feared or is it one more thing that will complement human endeavors as many other technologies have through the ages?</span></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit;" />Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-72603154404973989932019-02-14T15:22:00.000-05:002019-02-14T15:23:04.435-05:00AI meets Fracking: Artificial Intelligence /Machine Learning in the Oil & Gas sector<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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First published in <a href="https://www.mytechmag.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-meets-fracking-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-in-the-oil-gas-sector-1005.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">MyTechMag</a></div>
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A couple of years ago I moved from Upstate New York to Texas. In a lighter vein that can be described as a move from “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/nyregion/cuomo-to-ban-fracking-in-new-york-state-citing-health-risks.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">no fracking please, we’re New York</a>” to “Drill, baby, Drill”. Time magazine described it well in a recent issue: <a href="http://time.com/5492648/permian-oil-boom-west-texas/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">How an Oil Boom in West Texas Is Reshaping the World</a> . Oil and Gas exports are playing a key role in a resurgent US economy.</div>
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Living in Fort Worth, TX and knowing my interest in emerging and disruptive technologies I am often asked by fellow IT professionals whom I meet at various events – what are my thoughts on the role of AI in the Oil and Gas sector? Well, I cannot claim great expertise of the sector (i.e. if I totally discount time I spent hanging out with Schlumberger guys as a fellow expatriate in Vietnam in the early/mid 90s).</div>
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- <strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">perception</strong>,</div>
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- <strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cognition/decision making</strong> (very critical, machine learning can be used to make decisions much more effectively)</div>
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- <strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">action</strong></div>
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and see how that can play in the various segments of the Oil and Gas industry:</div>
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<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Upstream or E&P (Exploration) and Production sector:</strong></h2>
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o Onsite operating costs can be reduced by using sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) powered by AI to handle data collection and system control in real time</div>
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o Eliminate costly risks in drilling by identifying best sites.</div>
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o Well reservoir facility management</div>
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o Real-time intelligent system with forecasting and optimization capabilities for better decisions and operating performance.</div>
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o Oil and gas well surveying and inspections</div>
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o data model and predictive algorithms to develop software-based insights and solutions for the end-to-end management of water and other consumables. </div>
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o streamline their refinery and petroleum delivery operations to accelerate revenue growth</div>
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There are certain aspects where AI has a role to play across the entire value chain:</h3>
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Like any other sector, there will be a <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrong-way-right-looking-ai-deepak-seth/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wrong way and a right way</strong></a> to go about doing this</div>
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<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wrong Way</strong></h3>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We've got massive amounts of data. There must be some value in it. Let's use AI to figure it out.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Can a computer replace the brains of all my employees and do more efficiently what they do?</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Can I get some AI "Magic Dust", sprinkle it on my organization and make it smart?</li>
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<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Right Way</strong></h3>
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Let’s play it through with a representative <a href="https://www.epmag.com/ai-database-saves-logging-time-1676686#p=full" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">use case</strong></a> :</div>
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Work with a problem (<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">e.g. “As wells become more complex, logging and LWD (Logging while Drilling) measurements become more challenging to obtain”</em></strong>)</h3>
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Just write down the solution you’d like to have. (<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">possibly a capability to provide reservoir properties without running expensive logging tools</em></strong>).</h3>
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then work backwards and figure out what kind of automation might support this goal (<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AI driven predictive model?</em></strong>)</h3>
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break the problem down into the traditional components of AI—</h3>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">perception <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(use gamma ray logs and drilling dynamics data (ROP, weight on bit, torque, etc.) for many domestic and international basins.)</em></strong></li>
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map those onto different parts of the business problem: </h3>
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then work back to whether there’s the data you need, and how you collect it (<strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a framework for planning a data acquisition program using conventional logging tools</em></strong>.).</h3>
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In conclusion, I think there is tremendous opportunity for leveraging the entire continuum – <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cxo-can-you-keep-straight-artificial-intelligence-vs-machine-seth/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: var(--ui-accent-blue); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Data Science</strong></a> in the Oil and Gas sector to drive efficiencies even as we remain mindful of the following caveat:</div>
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<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AI is about using math to make machines make really good decisions. At the moment it has nothing to do with simulating real human intelligence. Once you understand that, it kind of gives you permission to think about how a set of data tools—things like deep learning and auto machine learning and, say, natural language translation—how you can put those into situations where you can solve problems. Rather than just saying “Wouldn’t it be good if the computer replaced the brains of all my employees so that they could run my company automatically?”</em></blockquote>
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Has the time come now for users to be paid royalty for use of their “digital exhaust” by corporations like Facebook and Google? Will a digital exhaust royalty framework be win-win for both: the corporations whose business model is based on the monetizing of this exhaust; and the individuals who are increasingly wary of this exhaust being put to wrong use without their knowledge or permission?</h3>
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I like to make beginning of the year predictions about what technological innovations will come to play in the New Year. Some I get right, but yes, some I do get wrong. One such prediction which did not come to fruition was the one I made in <a href="https://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-business-intelligence-chronicles.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">2015</a>:</div>
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‘Pay me or else stay away’</blockquote>
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Some capabilities for monetizing the digital exhaust created by individuals will emerge so that they can track and receive "royalties" for use of the same by corporations; and some of their privacy concerns can be mitigated ("pay me if you want to use my location data or online purchase history”)</blockquote>
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But now as the <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/27/597279596/they-don-t-care-whistleblower-says-cambridge-analytica-seeks-to-undermine-democr" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Facebook/Cambridge Analytica</a> scandal plays out and with <a href="https://www.eugdpr.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">GDPR</a> looming on the near horizon, I think it may finally be time for the idea to come to life.</div>
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Users have gotten used to the “free” services which Facebook, Google et al provide. But everyone knows at the back of their mind that given the multi-billion-dollar revenues these companies are generating, nothing is actually free. The users’ data is being bundled and sold to marketers and the like so that they can do targeted messaging. The data is as likely to be used by a product marketer for targeted ad placement as it is by a political party for focused political messaging.</div>
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The core item at play is our “digital exhaust”. McKinsey in 2013 had talked about organizations mining “exhaust data” (<a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/digital-mckinsey/our-insights/competing-in-a-digital-world-four-lessons-from-the-software-industry" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Competing in a digital world: Four lessons from the software industry</a>):</div>
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In addition to creating new revenue streams by amping up traditional product and service offerings, organizations have been mining “exhaust data”—information that is a by-product of normal business operations—for use in developing new products. Such by-products, for instance, allow credit-card companies to monetize transactional data from cardholders by analyzing and selling these data to merchants.</blockquote>
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But since then the exhaust has amplified. All our actions are generating “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9cbMCDunVg" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">digital exhaust</a>”: every credit card swipe, every click of a smart television remote, every google search, highway cameras, phone records, medical history, social media likes, every purchase transaction etc. All these are available for companies to bundle and market to the highest bidder.</div>
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In fact, I would say <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">companies like Facebook and Google are in the business of monetizing digital exhaust.</em> And that’s not a bad business to be in per se. They figured out a way of monetizing something and providing something of value to us in return (say search or socialization or navigation) and in the process generating even more digital exhaust for them to monetize.</div>
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The business model as it exists now allows these companies unlimited liberties to use the exhaust and may have become increasingly lopsided in their favor as their burgeoning revenues indicate. Is it time now for the pendulum to swing back a bit now towards the users who are generating the digital exhaust in the first place. This brings me back full circle to my original premise – Has the time finally come now:</div>
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“for monetizing the digital exhaust created by individuals so that they can track and receive ‘royalties’ for use of the same by corporations.”</blockquote>
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Having a well-defined royalty framework can help alleviate privacy concerns. People will be compensated for use of their information and they can track who or what it is being used for. A user can choose what kinds of uses his/her data can be used for: viz. will accept royalty for use by marketing companies but will opt-out for usage by political targeting.</div>
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A royalty framework already exists for music, entertainment and publishing industry. Royalty accrues to recording artistes or performers every time their music is played on the radio or show airs on the television. Now I am talking about evolving that framework for the digital era where every person is an artiste, their digital exhaust is their music creation and use by another party is akin to the song being played on radio.</div>
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Pipedream or reality?</div>
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I think technology and public opinion is evolving to make such a model feasible:</div>
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Blockchain could emerge as a way of tracking the use of a person’s digital exhaust.</div>
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This will be an extension of a trend that is already emerging in the entertainment industry: <a href="https://www.royaltyexchange.com/blog/is-blockchain-the-answer-to-better-royalty-accounting-and-payments#sthash.0AZbcVfa.dpbs" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Is Blockchain The Answer To Better Royalty Accounting and Payments?</a> What this article proposes for music royalty can very well apply to digital exhaust royalty too:</div>
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Put simply, the blockchain format can embed all the necessary accounting, usage rights, and creator credit information right into the song file itself. That means wherever that file goes, the information needed to know who to pay, how it can be used, and more travels along with it.</blockquote>
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All digital exhaust “transactions” for a person can be tracked in a blockchain ledger and royalty revenues accrue in a crypto-currency like bitcoin.</div>
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Public Opinion</h2>
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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/04/elon-musk-robots-will-take-your-jobs-government-will-have-to-pay-your-wage.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Elon Musk has talked about something akin to a Universal Basic Income to deal with the problem of robots/automation taking away jobs</a>. Others have said the same thing too (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fortune</em>: “<a href="http://fortune.com/2016/05/26/basic-income-skills-gap/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">What Governments Can Do When Robots Take Our Jobs</a>”).</div>
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That may sound controversial right now but public opinion seems to be shifting (see <em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LA Times</em>: “<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ubi-20170625-story.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Conservatives, liberals, techies, and social activists all love universal basic income: Has its time come?</a>”).</div>
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Let’s take the Universal Basic Income premise a bit further. What if in a robotic era, the digital exhaust which we now consider a byproduct becomes the actual product which most humans create. If producing digital exhaust is the “job” then shouldn’t humans be paid for doing that? Could the Universal Basic Income rather than being a dole, be a fair wage for the job being performed- creation of digital exhaust? </div>
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Much needs to happen before a Digital Exhaust Royalty framework becomes a reality. But the question is not about why or how but when. What was a pipedream in 2015 may very well become a reality by 2020. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What do you think? Stay tuned and join the conversation.</span></div>
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Originally published on <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3267106/privacy/digital-exhaust-royalty-will-it-solve-some-of-facebook-and-googles-personal-data-usage-travails.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO.com</a> ((Read this and other posts at <a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #665ed0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SETHspeak</span></a>)</div>
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2017 has come to a close, like any year it brought its share of joys/sorrows, successes/failures et al. </div>
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But I am sure we emerged wiser and stronger, hopefully none the worse for being through the wringer called 2017.</div>
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2018 - awaits over the horizon with a shining glow!</div>
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Wanted to end 2017 with a warm and sincere <strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THANK YOU!</strong> Thanks for reading my blogposts, commenting on them and sharing them with your own networks.</div>
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I am humbled by your feedback and feel privileged to be part of this virtual community of ours.</div>
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Many of you I know personally as our paths have crossed on our life and career journeys and some of you I have met via LinkedIn only. <strong style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wish all of you and yours the very best for 2018!</strong></div>
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What a journey we went on in 2017 - Innovation, Data, Driverless Cars, APIs, Talking Toasters and Listening Copiers et al. Hope you found these useful and enjoyed reading them as much as I did writing them: </div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cios-listen-up-voice-recognition-meets-printer-deepak-seth/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_post_details%3BA%2FZoGCJPSu6MMrQyso5zKw%3D%3D" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIOs, listen up: voice recognition meets the printer!</a></h2>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-29556683348824508312017-12-21T09:13:00.001-05:002017-12-21T09:13:05.101-05:00CIOs, listen up: voice recognition meets the printer!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First published on </span><a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SETHspeak</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (CIO.com)</span></div>
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<a href="https://reinvent.awsevents.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">AWS:reinvent 2017</a><span style="background-color: initial;">, held November 27 to December 1, 2017, lived up to its promise as </span><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/02/aws-kept-the-announcements-coming-at-a-frenetic-pace-this-week/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“AWS kept the announcements coming at a frenetic pace this week.”</a></div>
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Amongst the ones that interested me a lot was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/amazon-is-putting-alexa-in-the-office/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“Amazon is putting Alexa in the office.”</a> The reason that it piqued my curiosity was that amongst the first custom skill use cases that <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/alexaforbusiness/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Alexa for Business</a> touts as part of its <a href="https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Alexa Skills Kit</a> is related to printers in an office environment (full disclosure: I work at Xerox):</div>
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“For example, you could build a skill that lets a user report a printer problem to IT, and the skill could use the device location so that IT knows which printer is broken.”</div>
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Reminds me of how Andy Slawetsky <a href="https://industryanalysts.com/whats-happenin-xeroxs-biggest-launch-ever/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">described</a> what he saw at a Xerox new product launch event earlier in the year:</div>
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Donna Davis of <a href="https://www.visione.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Vision-e</a> showed us an app they built that adds these new Xerox copiers into the Amazon Alexa ecosystem. Walk up to the machine and tell it to color copy 50 pages, two-sided and stapled and watch it go. I saw it work. Those of you that have an Alexa get how powerful this is. Those of you that don’t, can’t appreciate it properly until you try it. While it may look like a gimmick or just cool “thing,” it’s much more. It’s a true time-saver around the house, adding things to grocery lists without interrupting what you’re doing, playing music, giving you the news and weather, looking things up for your, etc.<br />
Take that mentality to the office and ask yourself how much easier would it be for customers to walk up to the MFP, drop the documents in the feeder and say “email these to Andy,” and it just does it. “File these invoices” and they wind up in the system. There’s some real opportunity here. Or authenticate with voice instead of a card you need to swipe every time. And guess what. Xerox didn’t think of it. Xerox enabled it. This came from a dealer’s development company.<br />
Not only has Xerox created a platform that enables their channel partners to customize the products while building net new recurring revenue streams, they’ve gone further by allowing customers to develop their own apps. And this is what could put the MFP at another level.</blockquote>
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Check out the cool <a href="https://youtu.be/sCnXRXqgQWU" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">video</a> of Alexa voice recognition interacting with the Xerox Multifunction printer.</div>
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Gets even more interesting even more interesting when in addition to executing direct commands like "print copies" the voice agent uses its net connectivity and AI to actually find and deliver output "Alexa, can you print me the outstanding task list for my project" or "Alexa, print me a list of all vendors providing XYZ services." And then in the next incarnation both the voice agent and the printer become part of a seamless AI driven office workflow.</div>
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Voice assistants have moved over from being just a fad to a legitimate office efficiency enhancement tool with the voice-recognition market estimated to <a href="http://ctt.marketwire.com/?release=1302516&id=11363968&type=1&url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.branded3.com%2fblog%2fok-google-give-stats-voice-search%2f" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">be over half-a-billion-dollar industry by 2019</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://cloud.google.com/speech/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Google</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Siri</a>, <a href="https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Alexa</a>, <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/cortana" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Cortana</a> are all very much upping the ante to <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/bringing-voice-control-to-the-office-of-the-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">bring voice control to the office of the future</a>.</div>
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Alexa getting into the office is not a great stretch of the imagination since starting from the home she had already made her way to our cars (<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/ford-amazon-alexa-echo/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">You'll soon be able to start a Ford via Amazon Echo</a>) and so it was just a small little hop, skip and jump to get into our offices.</div>
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What does all this mean for you as the CIO or a technology leader:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be prepared to see voice/speech recognition as part of the office and computational landscape as users increasingly interact with their devices via voice commands (<a href="http://www.wsj.com/video/cio-network-better-speech-recognition-coming-soon/28BBD3D3-922D-4F79-9DDE-2659C911C8FF.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO Network: Better Speech Recognition Coming Soon</a> says Baidu’s Andrew Ng). CIOs may be increasingly called upon to help other C-suite executives understand the ramifications of proliferation of this technology.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Voice would also become an increasingly important part of how corporations interact with the external environment and CIOs will be tasked to ensure the technology works smoothly. (<a href="http://searchcio.techtarget.com/magazineContent/Speech-Recognition-Technology-Gains-Acceptance" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">On the CIO circuit, Barbara Layton, telecommunications manager of California's Marin County, recounts her case study</a>)</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Be mindful of the privacy and security challenges as a totally new dimension of sound opens up. (<a href="https://www.csoonline.com/article/3140633/privacy/how-voice-recognition-will-affect-privacy-and-the-internet-of-things.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">How voice recognition will affect privacy in the Internet of Things</a>; <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/06/alexa-and-siri-are-vulnerable-to-silent-nefarious-commands/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Alexa and Siri are vulnerable to 'silent,' nefarious commands</a>) .</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Help the business stakeholders figure out ways to make “voice” an efficiency driver in existing business processes. (<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/siri-cortana-alexa-and-google-assistant-are-just-the-beginning-voice-is-the-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO Strategies: Four ways to explore the use of voice technology for your business.</a>)</li>
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Be ready! Alexa, Siri et al may be in your workplace soon.</div>
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First published on <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3238728/sd-wan/got-sd-wan.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">SETHspeak</a> (CIO.com)</div>
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If you are a CIO wondering what the SD-WAN buzz is all about, don’t worry, you are in good company. The remote office network connectivity market is a huge one: 25 million offices; $25Bn market opportunity. However, less than 5% of the market has adopted SD-WAN - metered as it were by the limitations of first generation SD-WAN products. Coming up to speed is imperative because the <a href="https://blogs.gartner.com/andrew-lerner/2017/06/03/sd-wan-is-going-mainstream/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">pundits</a> predict <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3048174/wide-area-networking/idc-sd-wan-market-to-hit-6b-by-2020.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">50% of customers will be using SD-WAN</a> within the next 36 months driven by compelling Gen-2 SD-WAN offers such as those by CloudGenix.</div>
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Why SD-WAN?</h2>
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What SD-WAN (Software Defined – Wide Area Network) does is provide remote office locations seamless, secure connectivity across multiple communications channels and across the entire corporate application portfolio from a single centrally managed operational console.</div>
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I first wrote about SD-WAN about a year ago, after I had met some start-ups in the space (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/corporate-meets-start-up-innovators-deepak-seth/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">"Corporate IT meets startup innovators"</a>).</div>
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One year is a very long time in this space, and a lot has happened in the space since then. as when I met him today, he had some exciting news to share. SD-WAN has grown explosively over the last year: some of the biggest customers in the Fortune 500 across manufacturing, banking, retail, healthcare etc., retailers with thousands of locations, global manufacturers with international locations, banks that form the financial back-bone of the industry – all use SD-WAN today for their remote office connectivity needs.</div>
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Market consolidation and flux</h2>
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The network connectivity market in a state of major flux and consolidation. The most recent examples being market leader Cisco's <a href="http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/networking/300084996/10-things-to-know-about-ciscos-acquisition-of-viptela.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">$610 million acquisition</a> of SD-WAN vendor vIPtela and another leader <a href="https://www.rcrwireless.com/20171103/vmware-challenges-cisco-with-velocloud-acquisition-tag27" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">VMware announcing plans to purchase VeloCloud</a>.</div>
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Evolving technology spectrum</h2>
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The first Generation (Gen-1) SD-WAN players (<a href="https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/intelligent-wan/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Cisco</a>, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/solutions/vmware-sd-wan-on-vmware-vcloud-nfv-brochure.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">VMware</a> et al) have focused on delivering communications cost savings by enabling customers to integrate broad-band connectivity through existing carriers.</div>
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On the other hand, Gen-2 players (<a href="https://www.cloudgenix.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CloudGenix</a> et al) have not only enabled this baseline of connectivity across diverse transports, but also enabled the application-centricity needed in a cloud-first world. CIOs need WAN solutions that align with a multi-cloud strategy – this is at the core of the Gen-2 SD-WAN value proposition.</div>
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Here are some questions which you as CIO grapple with when evaluating network connectivity options.</div>
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I am locked in with my existing legacy hardware (routers, etc.) which are not yet fully depreciated. How will the financial model work?</h2>
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SD-WAN can coexist with existing infrastructure and you can continue to get depreciation on existing hardware. You can put SD-WAN software to work in tandem with existing routers which can be removed once they are fully depreciated. It also gives you the financial leeway to move from a Capex model to a subscription based Opex model.</div>
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However, knowing that IT organizations operate at different points on the Capex-Opex continuum, SD-WAN vendors offer several alternatives:</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fully capex model: Customer buys an appliance (Intel Server) preloaded and optimized for CloudGenix software</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Customer buys the software and installs on own in-house infrastructure.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fully OpEx model: A subscription based cloud hosted solution.</li>
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Also in terms of the sales cycle model SD-WAN vendors can respond directly to RFPs, working through an integration partner or with a Channel Partner.</div>
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Why should I not stick to bundled offerings from my existing telecom service provider (AT&T, Verizon, et al)?</h2>
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That is an option, but one often ends up with limited operational freedom to drive costs down leveraging different telecom rates at different sites. Also, one is stuck with a plethora of hardware at different sites and burdened by response times and finger pointing when problems arise. Lots of money spent on change control.</div>
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SD-WAN solutions allow inter-operability across many communication modalities. Network traffic can be driven based on cost or performance policy considerations which can be consistently defined and applied for all sites from a single centralized operational console.</div>
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Do I get locked in with a specific cloud services provider?</h2>
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Check if your SD-WAN vendor is agnostic to the CSP choice. They should have strong technology partnerships with all the major players- AWS, Microsoft Azure et al. They should be able to work with any of them and having them deployed should simplify the process of migration between providers.</div>
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My applications are not all deployed via cloud. Also, many are legacy in-house custom applications. Can they be accessed effectively at all my remote sites with a SD-WAN solution?</h2>
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The vendor should realize that applications are amongst the most important technology assets a company can have. Lots of emphasis should be placed on understanding applications at a very deep level. This is irrespective of whether it is CRM, ERP, Database, off-the-shelf, homegrown in-house et al.</div>
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The focus of any SD-WAN solution should be on delivering applications effectively to the remote office whether they are hosted on-premises in a datacenter, in the cloud, or from a SaaS provider.</div>
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Look for a vendor that has a powerful application identification engine that looks beyond simple packet details (like IP addresses and ports) and examines actual application transactions. As soon as a new application is identified and “learned” the new learning should propagate to all remote nodes. So there should be no time lag in deploying application capabilities to remote sites. All these benefits should be there even for home grown applications. </div>
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What about security?</h2>
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This is a very important question. The SD-WAN solution should complement and supplement the existing security environment and protocols by providing the ability to centrally define, monitor and enforce network policies. Firewalls should easily be enabled and configured within the SD-WAN software. They should also have strong integration with cloud security solutions from vendors like <a href="https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Palo Alto</a>, <a href="https://www.zscaler.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">ZScaler</a> and <a href="https://www.symantec.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Symantec</a> to ensure a consistent security perimeter for all sites.</div>
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What does a Gen2 SD-WAN bring to the table that Gen1 SD-WAN does not?</h2>
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Gen-1 SD-WAN products from Cisco and VMware are architecturally limited to being packet-routing or Layer 3 devices. This means they can help with broadband integration but often force carrier dependencies. That’s the reason they were unable to move the market beyond less than 5% adoption.</div>
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A Gen-2 product delivers Application Networking for multi-cloud – meaning they are “Layer 3-7” solutions. They understand applications, sub-applications and metrics from their transactions and sessions, and coupled with those same networking metrics, allow for more fine-grained policy and enforcement based on how the apps are actually performing. It’s a <a href="http://sd-wan.cloudgenix.com/rs/911-KCN-503/images/SD-WAN_CloudGenix_WP_Packet_Pushers_Ethan_Banks_Drew_Conry-Murray.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">top-down view that centers around user experience rather than packets</a>. This allows people to create policies for actual applications like Google Docs or Microsoft Lync and even sub-apps rather than just having policies for “Internet HTTP” and “Enterprise HTTP” and ensure the best user experience possible. It’s the second generation of SD-WAN and is crucial for any customer that wants to make sure that they have a Cloud-ready strategy rather than generically sending Internet HTTP traffic out via broadband and Enterprise HTTP out via MPLS.</div>
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What comes next? Where is the technology environment headed?</h2>
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This space intersects with data science, machine learning and AI. Think of self-driving cars and how those same principles apply to networking to create self-healing and self-governing networks. With legacy solutions, there is massive manual intervention in the network to keep it operating. With Gen2 SD-WAN solutions, the network learns based on past cost and performance data and then reacts automatically to emergent situations. Check if your vendor is heavily invested in this space.</div>
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is another interesting play albeit in its early stages. Network connectivity for millions of embedded Point of Sales (PoS) and inventory tracking devices at thousands of remote retail locations is a use-case model SD-WAN vendors should be actively engaged with.</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In conclusion, if you are looking to a multi-cloud strategy, deliver great user experience, automate your network and reduce WAN costs, Gen-2 SD-WAN makes now the perfect time to evaluate your SD-WAN options.</span></div>
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First published on <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3238728/sd-wan/got-sd-wan.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">SETHspeak</a> (CIO.com)</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-45754108553121592512017-10-25T15:16:00.000-04:002017-10-25T15:16:15.072-04:00Why CXOs need to jump off a plane<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Being ready to metaphorically jump off a plane seems to be a key requirement to deal with the rapid pace of technological and organizational change. Discomfort is the new comfort zone, and individuals as well as teams must learn to adapt to that.</h3>
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Originally published on my <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3231204/leadership-management/why-cxos-need-to-jump-off-a-plane.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO.com</a> blog - <a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">SETHspeak</a></div>
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Last year I stepped out of a small airplane at 10,000 feet for my first-ever tandem skydive. I was celebrating a milestone birthday.</div>
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As I reflected on it the next day, I could not help but think of the parallels with the IT project execution context.</div>
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Starts off with trepidation and uncertainty – a vague understanding of what lies ahead but little clarity. (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Project is initiated.</em>) </div>
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Then comes the chaos of the free-fall. Noisy. Rushing wind. A couple of flips and somersaults while hurtling down. Sensory/information overload. Things happening too quick, too fast. Am I following the instructions correctly? (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scope being defined.</em>) </div>
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The drogue parachute then deploys. It stabilizes the free-fall but does not reduce the speed. Things are still a blur but clarity emerges. (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Scope, costs, plans emerging.</em>) </div>
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Then the main canopy deploys at 5,500 feet. The sudden jolt. And then serenity of the view. Controlled descent with some twists and turns. Nothing unexpected though. Bliss. Systems and processes are humming. (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plans being executed.</em>) </div>
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Hit the ground. Prepared for it but still a little choppy, bumpy. Ground winds stronger than anticipated. (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Go live/cutover/day one.</em>) </div>
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Is it already over? </div>
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And, yes, there was a backup safety chute, which could have been deployed if needed. (<em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Risks identification and mitigation plans.</em>) </div>
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Interestingly, what seemed like stepping out of the comfort zone at the outset does not appear so in hindsight given the people (instructors), processes (skydive tips and techniques) and technology (parachutes, backups) at work to ensure a smooth ride. </div>
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Similarly there are the people, processes and technology we have going for us in all project efforts.</div>
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Which brings us to:</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Comfort zone</span></div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s a place where we feel secure and where risk is contained. It’s also a place where our performance is not severely tested.</li>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Step out of your comfort zone. Why?</span></div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is where the growth happens.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is where the solutions are.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is where fulfillment resides.</li>
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In short, the really important stuff happens outside your comfort zone.</div>
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Stepping out of the comfort zone: Employees</h2>
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Challenge your personal comfort zone:</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Escape conventional norms by taking on professional challenges beyond personal comfort zones.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It also means collaborating (often virtually) with new peer groups – inside and outside traditional silos – to find and apply new solutions to critical work challenges, thereby advancing personal and professional growth. It also helps to be aware of the “blind spots” that keep us from seeing an opportunity for change or the value of constructive criticism.</li>
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Never stop learning:</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You need to make continuous learning a permanent part of job description. In the perpetual discomfort zone, it’s not what you know today that counts – it’s how you acquire, refine and apply new knowledge for tomorrow.</li>
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Stepping out of the comfort zone: Corporations</h2>
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Compete on code and manage on meaning: </div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To compete in the discomfort zone, enterprises must decode the rising volume of data surrounding customers, markets and products.</li>
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Agility is the killer behavior: </div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Business agility has a dual mandate: to drive greater effectiveness and efficiency, and invest in growth-enabling innovation.</li>
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Functioning in a perpetual discomfort zone</h2>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Think fast, </span>meaning abandoning prolonged strategic debates in favor of rapid, real-time, data-driven decisions. Don’t become mired in discomfort, be agile in responding to it.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Think forward, </span>meaning create new business models, processes and workplace environments that enable organizations to ride the next wave of innovation – intentionally establishing new areas of discomfort.</li>
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How can you maximize trips out side your comfort zone?</h3>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Acknowledge the value.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lean into the experience.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Notice your fear.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t overthink it.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Play full out.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Celebrate the victory.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pause to reflect.</li>
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And the caveat? Consider your own personal threshold. Some people thrive on being outside their comfort zones, others don't, and some people are in the middle. Consider where you are on this continuum and then recognize how much you can handle. Don't avoid things outside your comfort zone out of fear, but also know yourself and when something is simply too much for you to handle.</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://michaelhyatt.com/tag/intentional-leadership" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Michael Hyatt “Intentional Leadership” Blog</a></li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Francesco D’Souza <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20131210121111-142173-big-idea-2014-discomfort-is-the-new-comfort-zone" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Big Idea 2014: Discomfort Is the New Comfort Zone</a></li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.thriveglobal.com/stories/13128-when-you-should-stay-right-inside-your-comfort-zone" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">When You Should Stay Right Inside Your Comfort Zone</a></li>
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Originally published on my <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3231204/leadership-management/why-cxos-need-to-jump-off-a-plane.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO.com</a> blog - <a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">SETHspeak</a></div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-23215073552220867902017-09-12T09:34:00.002-04:002017-09-12T09:38:10.915-04:00The CIO's data dilemma: The paradox of plenty?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Classical data strategies have focused on "what the data looks like" and can it provide "answers." Newer approaches provide the ability to move beyond that to "how can I use what I have" and can it provide "directions."</h3>
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Originally published on my <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3218085/data-management/the-cios-data-dilemma-the-paradox-of-plenty.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO.com</a> blog: <a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SETHspeak</span></a></div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Data, Data, everywhere, Nor any information to think"</em></span></div>
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Often at time it does feel like we are in a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">paradox of plenty</a>" kind of situation, somewhat akin to a resource curse where historic corporations with an abundance of data are finding themselves losing the race of market competitiveness to newer players who have much less data. </div>
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Why?</h2>
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My initial thoughts were that till recently the focus of most corporations had been on mining their "historical" data.</div>
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However, with the world of today generating a steady and ever-growing stream of "real-time" or "near real-time" data, corporations need to wake up to the new reality that much of their historical data is not as relevant or valuable as they think it is.</div>
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In the absence of real-time data, historical data is often used as a proxy to make some predictions. But with real-time data being available now, that proxy is no longer needed or is no longer as relevant.</div>
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This has a big benefit – corporations that feel that they had fallen behind in the race to mine historical data do not necessarily need to play catch-up. They can make up for the lost opportunity by creating a framework to leverage real-time data streams.</div>
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Essentially, corporations can leapfrog and catch up with or even move beyond other players without getting caught up in what I'll call the legacy data trap – ditch it, since most of it may not be as relevant as you think. Food for thought?</div>
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What does the Data Doc think?</h2>
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I bounced this idea off <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomredman/" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Tom Redman</a>, "the Data Doc." He was skeptical. While, he agrees that companies need to wake up, he had two reasons for his skepticism. </div>
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First, real-time and historical data support different sorts of analyses and opportunities. He did not see one as a surrogate for the other.</div>
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Second, the biggest "gap" is the ability to analyze data and sort out what to do with those analyses. Real-time data does not address that gap.</div>
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Tom made some great points.</div>
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My response</h2>
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Till now most of the energy and resources of corporations were devoted to "historical" data, since the capabilities to harness real-time or near real-time data did not exist. Now suddenly there has been an explosion in both the volume of the real-time data as well as the tools to manage it.</div>
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As a result, there will be a shift of attention and resources from historical to real-time since both attention and resources are fixed and limited. Also, for many areas, an effective handle on real-time data is all that may be needed.</div>
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For example, we drive on the roads just using real-time data presented on the dashboard (speed, rpm, engine temperature) with no need of any historical data to meet the immediate need of going from point A to point B.</div>
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What do you think?</h2>
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This could be an interesting survey question to ask CIOs and CDOs:</div>
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This may offer some interesting insights on how this entire area is evolving.</div>
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What implications does all this have on data strategy?</h2>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consolidation vs. Federation</span>: Approaches where data is pulled from various data sources into a single repository need to be replaced by approaches where data stays in its parent repositories but gets "pulled" as needed. A federated data application framework? <a href="https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/discovery/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">IBM Watson Discovery Service</a> does something like that but seems like it does it only for unstructured data. <a href="http://www.fraxses.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Fraxses</a> seems to do it for both structured and unstructured data. With the kind of capabilities available now, physically moving data into a distinct data store (lake) may not be required. The lake may be virtual. This may be a quicker approach too.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internal vs. External</span>: In most corporations, data strategies have been inward looking. That is, they have focused on internal data. In today's world, any meaningful data strategy has to focus on internal as well as external data. How can you combine internally available data with publicly available or acquired external data to deliver business focused insights is a question the strategy needs to answer.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Defense vs. Offense</span>: Data strategy should enable support of both "exact" reporting (e.g., for finance and accounting purposes) as well as "directional" reporting (e.g., for strategy and business development purposes). Till now the focus has been on exact, which has meant all available data has not been effectively utilized. There is always a significant amount of data which is not "exact" but can still provide meaningful insights when weighted appropriately (e.g., <a href="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LR5X5mB5JmI/maxresdefault.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Watson when playing Jeopardy did not come up with just one correct answer but several with appropriate weights</a>). A recent Harvard Business Review article, <a href="https://hbr.org/2017/05/whats-your-data-strategy" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">"What's your data strategy?"</a> described it as defense vs. offense: Companies make considered trade-offs between defensive and offensive uses of data and between control and flexibility in its use. <a href="https://hbr.org/search?term=leandro+dallemule" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Leandro DalleMule</a> and <a href="https://hbr.org/search?term=thomas+h.+davenport" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Thomas H. Davenport</a> summed it up well in that article:</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is no avoiding the implications: Companies that have not yet built a data strategy and a strong data-management function need to catch up very fast or start planning for their exit.</span></blockquote>
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(Originally published on my <a href="https://www.cio.com/article/3218085/data-management/the-cios-data-dilemma-the-paradox-of-plenty.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">CIO.com</a> blog: <a href="https://www.cio.com/blog/sethspeak/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background: 0px 0px transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #827be9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SETHspeak</span></a>)</div>
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Beware of cloud "stickiness." Plan for redundancy. Clouds do fail!</h2>
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There was a tear in the fabric of the cloud universe on February 28, 2017 when <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/message/41926/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services had a significant outage.</a></div>
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It highlighted what some described as a <a href="http://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-outage-reveals-critical-lack-of-redundancy-across-the-internet/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">“critical lack of redundancy across the internet.”</a> The outage was a wake-up call for many to build in redundancy (both multi-region as well as multi-provider) in their cloud strategy.</div>
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So from cloud the conversation has moved to clouds.</div>
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However, good tools with capabilities that allow seamless dynamic interoperability between public cloud providers especially in the PaaS and SaaS space are hard to find.</div>
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Public cloud providers' idea of redundancy is to provide geo-redundant storage, replicating data to a secondary region that is hundreds of miles away from the primary region. They talk about seamlessly migrating from one to another in quick easy steps but are silent about dynamic real-time interoperability.</div>
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What I mean is that, ideally, these tools should allow dynamic switching between public cloud providers based on rates, availability, etc.</div>
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Customers are getting wary about putting all their eggs in one basket. They would also like to leverage differential rate structures across public cloud providers to their advantage.</div>
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What one really wants: A cloud load balancer/scheduler that switches the processing to whichever cloud offers the best mix (rate, availability, processing speed, etc., at that point of time). Cannot say there is one quite there yet.</div>
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Interestingly a patent assigned to Red Hat Inc., "<a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090300210A1/en?q=load+balancing+cloud" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Methods and systems for load balancing in cloud-based networks</a>," has been out there for quite some time. But does not seem like it has been effectively commercialized yet. </div>
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This brings me to the other pet peeve about the existing public cloud providers: “stickiness.”</div>
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The economic model presented by leading public cloud providers highlights a “consumption-based infrastructure,” which moves the cost model from CapEx-centric to OpEx-centric, and aligns costs directly to usage (see "<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pay-as-you-go-cfos-dream-cios-nightmare-deepak-seth" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Pay-as-you-go IT: CFO’s dream, CIO’s nightmare/opportunity?</a>").</div>
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However, just like the classic software/hardware vendors, public cloud providers have tried to create a “stickiness” using technology or commercial barriers to make seamless interoperability across multiple providers somewhat of a challenge. (O<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">h, AWS Cloud is the AWS Cloud and Azure Cloud is the Azure Cloud, and never the twain shall meet</em> – with apologies to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_East_and_West" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Rudyard Kipling</a>.)</div>
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In SaaS, vendors are perhaps getting too “sticky,” like to own the application, platform, infrastructure, cloud – the whole shebang! </div>
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That works fine with me when I am the vendor for others, but being at the receiving end of the stickiness is scary.</div>
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Perhaps, it could be reduced a bit for some applications where other vendors are pulled for the underlying platform or infrastructure (Oracle SaaS or Salesforce on an AWS cloud). But all applications vendor claim their applications work best on their own cloud!</div>
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I do not blame them for that. Any vendor in any line of business would like to make sure the customer stays with them and goes no place else.</div>
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If I had access to the ear of Jeff Bezos or Satya Nadella or Sundar Pichai or Larry Ellison, this is what I would whisper: Build the cloud “switch.”</div>
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That means a tool/appliance/service that allows storage capacity or processing loads to move from cloud to cloud or cloud provider to cloud provider based on cost and demand.</div>
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Create a true “cloud grid” like the electricity grid (where distribution companies can draw power from whichever generating company based on rates and availability).</div>
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What next: a “computing exchange” where processing and storage capabilities are traded and futures are locked in like any other commodity (electricity, jet fuel, etc.). Now, I may be getting ahead of myself.</div>
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Well, in the short term:</div>
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You are only as good as your plan B.</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-76269419292402043062017-07-10T08:35:00.001-04:002017-07-27T20:37:14.176-04:00The CIO and the driverless car: Are you ready for the Transportation as a Service (TaaS) revolution?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Credit: Volkswagen</span><br />
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Well, not many of us have seen a driverless car yet (The closest I have come to one is the Tesla with its many <a href="https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-tesla-cars-being-produced-now-have-full-self-driving-hardware" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">autonomous driving features</a>). But it could very well be a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“platform disrupter,”</strong> which throws us off track if we don’t prepare for it.</div>
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In my comments published in the <a href="http://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2013/04/big-bang-vs-evolutionary-same.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Harvard Business Review</em></a> I had opined that failure to recognize platform disrupters (and the self-driving car is one) can be very detrimental to corporate health and existence. (<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">......by focusing on the downstream disrupters and failing to recognize these Platform Disrupters, companies are missing the woods for the trees.</em></strong><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 0.975em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">”</em>)</div>
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Are you kidding?</h3>
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That’s what some of you may ask. </div>
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How can an autonomous car or driverless car or self-driving car or whatchamacallit impact my company and above all disrupt IT?</div>
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Combine facets of the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">sharing economy</a>” with it (think Uber, Lyft) and you have a veritable TaaS (Transportation as a Service). And that can be a game changer.</div>
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For starters, the study: <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585c3439be65942f022bbf9b/t/59122a6c2e69cfca477235c5/1494362762632/RethinkX+Report_050917.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Rethinking Transportation 2020–2030</a> (from RethinkX, an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society) highlights the impact <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Transportation as a Service (TaaS)</strong> is likely to have on entertainment, work and other opportunities: </div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This will act as an increase in productivity and provide a boost to GDP (see Part 3.5). From the TaaS provider perspective, additional services could be offered, such as entertainment (movies, virtual reality), </span> <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">work services (offices on wheels)</span></strong> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> and food and beverage (Starbucks Coffee on wheels). </span></blockquote>
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The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNShd2ffIuE" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Mercedes Benz Concept Car for 2030</a> envisages:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Think of it as workplace of the future: work in there, pay bills etc.</li>
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This space is evolving very fast. <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/22/bill-ford-says-new-ceo-hackett-will-transform-ford-for-the-future.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Ford has appointed a new CEO</a> who had just recently been brought in to head up its “<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/transport/smart-mobility-it-time-re-think-urban-mobility" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">smart mobility</a>” operations. An indication that the big players are acknowledging the direction the industry is heading. Cars are no longer transportation but part of a larger “smart mobility” initiative.</div>
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It is this <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“offices on wheels”/“smart mobility”</strong> premise which should get companies thinking. </div>
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Our cars of the future may be evolving as an extension of the workplace/office.</div>
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Do all the auto manufacturers see that yet — perhaps not, they suspect it, but do not seem to be sure how to factor it into their designs. That’s where other players could step up, take the lead and create/define a market.</div>
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All TaaS cars may not be offices but in big cities customers in the future perhaps could request a ride in a vehicle equipped with office capabilities. The jury may still be out on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/21/technology/pittsburgh-ubers-driverless-car-experiment.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Uber’s Pittsburgh driverless car experiment</a>, but it does show the shape of things to come.</div>
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What does this mean for the CIO?</h3>
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As employees start treating the car as extension of their offices IT infrastructure teams would need to figure out best ways of implementing “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">telepresence</a>” in cars assuring seamless connectivity. The autonomous car could also very well be the epitome of <a href="https://www.recode.net/2017/3/14/14924892/autonomous-car-self-driving-cloud-fog-advanced-edge-computing" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">IoT/Edge Computing</a>.</div>
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There would be major implications for <a href="http://www.information-age.com/future-driverless-cars-data-security-123461877/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">information security</a> as well. The driverless car with its ubiquitous connectivity with the external environment and other vehicles on the road multiplies manifold the threat vectors compared to the current physically static office environment.</div>
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The question you may need to answer in the near future: <a href="http://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2014/09/is-your-business-ready-for-self-driving.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">is your business ready for Transportation as a Service?</a> And what can IT do to facilitate that?</div>
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A few thoughts:</div>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 2.4rem 0px 2.4rem 3.2rem; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Engage with vehicle manufacturers</strong> – Ford, Toyota, Tesla, Navistar, etc.; <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Driverless capability service providers</strong> – Uber, Lyft, Google etc.; <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Automobile accessory companies</strong> – Harmon-Kardon, Pioneer etc.To understand their <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">vision of the “office package”</strong> for the driverless vehicle of the future.</li>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-64723323669673016232017-06-20T20:21:00.000-04:002017-06-20T20:21:15.612-04:005 Leadership Lessons from the Indian Meltdown (ICC Champions Trophy Final- Cricket)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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ICC Champions Trophy Final June 18, 2017; India lose by 180 runs</h3>
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1. The Game Is Not Over Till It Is Over: Play till the End.</h3>
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While the Pakistani team even after building a clear path to victory continued to play with the same vigor; the Indians had essentially given up after their first few wickets fell in quick succession. Only one player (Hardik Pandya) took the fight to the other camp but he too was let down by his own team-mate in a disastrous run-out.</div>
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Turnarounds are possible in any game.......and in business and life.</div>
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2. All for One, One for All: No First Among Equals.</h3>
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Over-hyping the contributions of some players like Virat Kohli and M.S. Dhoni made the team mentally over-dependent on them resulting in a situation where the team was psychologically undermined when these players were quickly knocked out of the game.</div>
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Also, players need to be willing to take one for the team and sacrifice their own personal agenda in case another player is better suited to take the cause forward (Seeing the way Hardik was playing; Jadeja should have been willing to sacrifice his own wicket as the run-out fiasco played out)</div>
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3. Manage Expectations.</h3>
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The Indian Team had tried to temper the unrealistic expectations that had been created for them by the media. However, the weight of the nation’s over-hyped expectations was like an albatross around the team-member’s necks. The Pakistan team despite the expectations from their own nation managed to create an under dog image. As a result every win of the Pakistan team was a bonus for the fans (esp. after a string of early losses, including one to India).</div>
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4. Be Flexible, Creative and Responsive: You are only as good as your Plan B.</h3>
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The Indian team failed to respond flexibly and creatively to the Pakistani onslaught. They seemed to be caught in a warped game-plan and were not able to modify it once they saw it unraveling.</div>
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5. Stay Calm, Stay Focused and Execute.</h3>
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Unfortunately the game played out to the stereotypical “Fail Under Pressure Indian Team” vs. “Go for the Kill Pakistani Team”.</div>
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I am not sure wearing ones emotions on one’s sleeves and creating hype ahead of the event is the best approach for high stress scenarios. There is something to be said about staying focused and keeping the emotions bottled up till after the game when they can be all let out.</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-21868007851672815572017-06-02T18:56:00.000-04:002017-06-02T18:56:21.099-04:00Healthcare Sector and the API Economy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px;">Harvard Business Review talks about the </span><a href="http://hbr.org/2015/12/the-untapped-potential-of-health-care-apis" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Untapped Potential of Health Care APIs</a><br />
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Leaders of most internet-based businesses have realized the critical importance of using open application programming interfaces (APIs) to expand the reach of their organizations. If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous.</blockquote>
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IBM has outlined 5 entry points to an <a href="http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/thoughtleadership/apieconomy/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">API Economy</a>:</div>
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The first 3 ones seem to be most relevant for any corporation.</div>
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A next step could be an exercise to figure out what data resources a Corporation may have which there may be value in exposing to others via APIs.</div>
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Several healthcare related open APIs are now accessible via <a href="http://www.programmableweb.com/category/healthcare/api" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">API markeplaces</a>.</div>
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A good opportunity for some healthcare player may be moving a step up the value chain and creating a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Healthcare API Management Portal/System . </strong>Lots of players – insurance companies, hospitals etc. would be providing APIs. APIs in many sectors are “open” APIs but in the healthcare sector there are several privacy related constraints so there is an opportunity for players to create a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Healthcare API Management Portal/System </strong>which:</div>
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I am not sure if any player has offered such a System yet. If not, then a good opportunity for someone to get in and get some early traction.</div>
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Users will like to have this portal/system because they will have a one-stop shop to access all healthcare related APIs presented to him in a curated fashion on a self-serve platform which s/he can customize/personalize. No need to provide security credentials multiple times.</div>
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Companies will like to use such a portal to list their APIs because it makes them easily available to a broader audience without dealing with headache of security validations etc. Reporting available to them as a package.</div>
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The business model can either be subscription based from users or could be free for users but a fees from institutional participants. The portal could be accessible as a customized plug-in on institutional websites too.</div>
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I may be getting ahead of myself though. Or maybe, not.</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-23700276910439251122017-06-02T18:49:00.000-04:002017-06-02T18:49:33.161-04:00My Copier/Toaster Knows I Am Angry!: Building Emotion AI in Devices.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What if your Copier or your Toaster knew you were getting angry or were in a hurry and could change device settings appropriately to deal with that ?</div>
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<a href="https://www.affectiva.com/emotion-ai-overview/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Emotion AI</a><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">is emerging as a major tool with applications across many industries. Per KBR Research Global Emotion Detection market expected to grow to $29B by 2022 at CAGR of 27.4%</span></div>
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Think of Cars that sense fatigue, distraction and occupant mood. Car senses that you are getting angry and could make your brakes more responsive?</div>
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The same technology can be integrated into many of our devices. This is part of trend to humanize technology with Emotion Intelligence by enabling machines to be emotion-aware and by allowing consumers and businesses to get emotion analytics.</div>
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Current technology (viz. <a href="https://www.affectiva.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Affectiva</a>) leverages facial recognition and a vast database linking facial expressions with emotions. In the future the sensing can be tactile too. Your smartphone senses/detects that you are intoxicated or sleep deprived based on the way you are handling the device or the way you are typing and blocks you from sending any tweets saving you from embarrassment later on (Save you from a #<a href="https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/covfefe-what-the-heck-is-covfefe.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">covfefe</a> moment!).</div>
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Think of your printer or toaster with camera sensors to detect your mood or better still, ones that leverage the built-in camera of smartphones to sense your mood as you use them to engage with other devices.</div>
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Yes Copier I am in a hurry, print out those copies faster, high resolution not needed!</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-48796870542726497682017-01-31T14:55:00.002-05:002017-01-31T14:55:32.661-05:003 Disrupters* for the Copy/Print Industry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the <a href="http://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2013/04/big-bang-vs-evolutionary-same.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Harvard Business Review</a> a few years ago I had written about how by focusing on down-stream disrupters and failing to recognize "<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">platform disrupters</strong>" companies can miss the woods for the trees.</div>
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I see 3 such <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">platform disrupters</strong> emerging in the Copy/Print Industry space:</div>
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#1: <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Robotic Process Automation</strong></h2>
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In a widely noted study ("<a href="http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">The Future of Employment</a>") published in 2013, <a href="http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/453" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Carl Benedikt Frey</a> and <a href="http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/647" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Michael Osborne</a> concluded that</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“recent developments in machine learning will put a substantial share of employment, across a wide range of occupations, at risk in the near future.” </span></blockquote>
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That may be a pessimistic view, the optimistic being that technology always creates more jobs than what it takes away. But all agree that the nature of work as we know it today will definitely change. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A more automated workplace with lesser number of employees could drive down the demand for traditional copy/print.</strong></div>
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#2: <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smart Contracts</strong></h2>
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From Harvard Business Review ("<a href="http://hbr.org/2017/01/the-truth-about-blockchain" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Truth about Blockchain</a>")</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“Smart contracts” may be the most transformative blockchain application at the moment. These automate payments and the transfer of currency or other assets as negotiated conditions are met. For example, a smart contract might send a payment to a supplier as soon as a shipment is delivered. A firm could signal via blockchain that a particular good has been received—or the product could have GPS functionality, which would automatically log a location update that, in turn, triggered a payment. We’ve already seen a few early experiments with such self-executing contracts in the areas of venture funding, banking, and digital rights management.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The implications are fascinating. Firms are built on contracts, from incorporation to buyer-supplier relationships to employee relations. If contracts are automated, then what will happen to traditional firm structures, processes, and intermediaries like lawyers and accountants? And what about managers? Their roles would all radically change...."</span></blockquote>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As contracts become smart the need for printing associated documentation will diminish.</strong></div>
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Marketplaces for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">APIs</a> are emerging (viz. this "<a href="http://market.mashape.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Largest API Marketplace And Powerful Tools For Private And Public APIs</a>.")</div>
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Like Uber for taxi industry, AirBnb for hotel industry – <a href="http://www.managedprintservices.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Managed Print Services</strong></a><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> (MPS) offerings from the API Marketplaces can be a major disrupter for the organized MPS sector.</strong></div>
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Came across some companies which are offering Printer Monitoring in the cloud. The features they tout are : </div>
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- A complete API Platform for Printer</div>
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- Build your own MPS solution etc. </div>
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They have scaled subscription based model with subscriptions including among other things : Unlimited data retention, Unlimited API calls, Unlimited access to all available API, Unlimited access to Cloud Web Portal, Unlimited Users, Customers, DCA downloads, Tech support via email, ticket, chat etc.</div>
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Currently, however these solutions while low cost and simple, have less functionality than other 3rd party tools like FM Audit and lack key features .</div>
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However, these players are only likely to get better and evolve very rapidly. They may not be perceived as competitors by the mainstream players right now but they can catch up fast. I can visualize them becoming major disrupters – either standalone or in the hand of aggregators who bundle these capabilities with some others which the mainstream players may not even be thinking about right now.</div>
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The mainstream players can react to these ins several ways</div>
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· opportunities for them to make some of their own APIs or tool suite available on such marketplaces.</div>
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· Or build such a marketplace for Print related APIs.</div>
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· Or augment some of their own offerings with some other capabilities (which may be non-print related) sourced from the open marketplace.</div>
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Hopefully, the mainstream players see these disrupters approaching in their rear-view mirrors and will take steps to ensure that the impact for them is not a "<a href="http://deepaksethspeak.blogspot.com/2013/04/big-bang-vs-evolutionary-same.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Big Bang</a>".</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would hypothesize that most Disruptions can be prevented from having a Big Bang effect by smart companies by:</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- early identification of emerging trends</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- what-if /SWOT analysis to identify impact on existing business</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- identify opportunities to leverage the emerging trend</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- get "co-opted" into the evolution process</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">- ride the evolutionary wave and reap the benefits.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Companies which do not do so will feel the impact of what was actually an evolutionary process as if it was a "Big Bang". Guys who see an oncoming bus and prepare for it can run alongside it a bit and then board it ; guys who are oblivious will be "hit by a bus".</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that’s why I view most disruptions as evolutionary rather than Big Bang and recommend that organizations prepare for them that way. For each of the companies that have been highlighted as being affected by the Big Bang disruption there will be countless others who would have thrived from the same disruption.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px;">* Disrupter or Disruptor: I have chosen to use </span><a href="http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/05/disrupter-disruptor.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #8c68cb; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Disrupter</a><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-size: 21px;">!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gartner-2016-magic-quadrant-advanced-analytics-losers-gregory" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics Platforms</a> just touches the tip of the iceberg as far as the number of players in this burgeoning sector are concerned.</div>
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The start-up ecosystem is also pretty crowded in this space as many players emerge in different niches based on various horizontal and vertical technology and customer differentiation strategies. Nowhere is the action more visible than the IT Hub of Bengaluru, India.</div>
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I recently had an opportunity to meet with three of these. </div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.tetruscorp.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Tetrus Corporation </a></strong>headed by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharad-rao-42a6752" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sharad Rao </a>focuses on data-mining and analytics from a US National Security perspective and so works closely with Public Safety, Homeland Security, Justice and Corrections communities. Sharad describes as their key strength the ability to work across traditional data siloes to provide security officials a holistic overview of the data and the ability to recognize threats/opportunities which otherwise may have stayed hidden in the seams. The company now strives to leverage some of the same strengths and capabilities in offerings targeted towards the private sector domain as well as other geographies.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://axtria.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Axtria</a></strong> has focused on the people/expertise aspect building a strong bench of data sciences and analytics expertise hiring some of the best graduates/PhDs from the most prestigious institutions in India/elsewhere. Axtria "Is A Data Sciences Company That Operates At The Intersection Of Deep Analytics, Domain expertise And Technology" is how <a href="https://in.linkedin.com/in/manishmittalaxtria" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Manish Mittal</a> , managing principal described themselves.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.sigmoid.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sigmoid </a></strong>founded by a bunch of bright sparks from IIT Kharagpur including<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lokeshanand" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Lokesh Anand</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rustagi" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mayur Rustagi</a> has gained lot of traction in the retailing space with their <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SigView</strong>: An Integrated Solution, Built for Scale and Speed on Apache Spark. The use of an In-Memory Columnar database with some unique indexing algorithms provides them the ability to ingest large volumes of data and provide quick analytics. Mayur and Lokesh were gung-ho in describing future plans to expand their reach across more industry sectors in the US as well as globally. Also in their plans, launching <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SigAI:</strong> Self learning intelligence system on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Spark" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Apache Spark</a> and <a href="http://thinkaurelius.github.io/titan/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Titan Graph</a>.</div>
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I was impressed by the capabilities on display and am sure we will be hearing more about these companies in the days to come.</div>
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Once again though, this is just the tip of the iceberg...............</div>
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<i>Also published on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/big-dataanalytics-fertile-breeding-ground-start-ups-deepak-seth" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3143521" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gartner's</a> VP & Fellow - Technology Visionary & Futurist <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidcearley" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">David Cearley</a> joined the conversation on one of my earlier posts about the Internet of Things: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-mesh-goo-what-bind-iot-ecosystem-together-deepak-seth?" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Digital Mesh Or Digital Goo? What will bind the IoT Ecosystem together? </a></div>
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Call it the Internet of Things (IoT) or The Internet of Everything (IoE), players in this burgeoning field are facing a common set of challenges as I fathomed from a conversation with a leading vendor venturing into this space:</div>
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Are you working in the IoT/IoE space? What are some of the challenges you are facing? Please join the conversation.</div>
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Originally published on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-biggest-challenges-internet-things-arena-deepak-seth" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. You can join the conversation there.</div>
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Yes, that's right. It's no typo. I mean <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PReDICTT</strong>. It's the acronym for a unique program we initiated this year : <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">P</strong>eers <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Re</strong>flecting on <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">D</strong>evelopments in <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C</strong>urrent <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</strong>echnology <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</strong>rends.</div>
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The idea behind it is simple. In our roles as technology individuals, we are consistently exposed to technology and innovation trends: some directly related to our work endeavors and some seemingly unrelated, and these make us wonder what their influence may be on us in the days to come. Some examples Include: Bitcoins, Self-Driving cars, The Internet of Things, Millennials in the Workplace, etc. We often wish for a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">forum</strong> where we could <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">learn more about these trends</strong> and openly <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">share our own ideas and thoughts</strong> with others in an<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">open, candid, non-judgmental fashion</strong>.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The PReDICTT Program (Peers Reflecting on Developments In Current Technology Trends)</strong> gave the team an opportunity to periodically engage in some <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">creative brainstorming</strong> and sharing of ideas <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">distinct from our day-to-day responsibilities.</strong> The opportunity to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">view the world through a telescope rather than the rearview-mirror or windscreen</strong> for a change. A key premise being that <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">innovation thought even unrelated to normal line of work makes individuals more effective in whatever they do. </strong></em></div>
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This program was comprised of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Open Mike” sessions</strong> at a regular cadence where volunteer/guest speakers shared their thoughts on a Technology/Innovation trend and its likely implications. The <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">requirement for speakers was not that they be experts</strong> in the topic but that they feel<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">passionately</strong> enough about it to be <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">willing to share</strong> their ideas related to it with their peers.</div>
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By this program, even as we bring “Innovation” thought to the fore with a regular cadence driving positive downstream impacts we also strove to:</div>
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We had 8 very interesting sessions during the year spanning the gamut of innovations:</div>
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As intended, all presented by volunteers. What was even more stimulating was the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">excellent exchange of ideas following the presentation</strong> and which often spilled over into our vibrant Yammer group. Lots of thoughts on how these can impact what we do on a daily basis and our marketplace.</div>
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The PReDICTT keywords reiterated at every session are:</div>
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2016 promises to be even more exciting for PReDICTT as more groups warm up to the idea and join; and even more Innovations keep appearing in the world we live in! </div>
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Many of you may not be aware of the incessant once in a hundred years kind of rains and consequent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_South_Indian_floods" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">flooding that recently plagued the southern Indian coastal city of Chennai.</a></div>
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And then, maybe, many of you are aware since given the globalized nature of the world economy you or one of your vendors <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/IT-companies-suffer-60-million-loss-due-to-Chennai-floods/articleshow/50060374.cms" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">most likely has operations in Chennai</a>(esp. if you are in the BPO, tech or automotive sectors).</div>
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One thing that struck me as sitting in the US, I interacted with friends who were marooned in the city was the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">big role played by social media - facebook, WhatsApp and the like in enabling people to stay connected</em></strong> and in ensuring that help and resources are directed to the most needy. On the flip side social media though helpful was also rife with rumors and misinformation. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Internet connectivity was also a problem</em></strong> as a sizable portion of the population there still relies on "wired" internet - the cable breaks and power outages did not help. </div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A picture can say it better than thousand words!</em></strong> A missing piece of critical information for both the stranded people and the first responders is <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">real-time imagery of flood affected areas</em></strong> to comprehend which streets are open, which areas are submerged and how the floodwaters are moving. Google Maps can play a big role in addressing that gap. Currently I believe the satellite imagery or street-views in Google Maps are refreshed after long periods of time.<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In crisis situations like these the satellite imagery could be updated more frequently</strong></em> perhaps even near real-time so that users have the latest information. With the correct updated maps being available I am sure the user-community will crowd-source to tag them with relevant highlights - roads/bridges to avoid , drinking water stocking points , food stocks etc.</div>
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Of course Google will need to allocate some resources to ensuring that their satellites - "birds" (or those of their imagery providers) get positioned appropriately. Crises like these could be another opportunity to leverage Google's<a href="http://www.google.com/loon/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Loon Project</a>. Those stratospheric balloons instead of just enabling internet connectivity could also provide real-time imagery.</div>
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Rather than this being just charity, it <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">would make sound business sense</strong></em> too:</div>
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And of course this would align well with <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/02/as-google-becomes-alphabet-dont-be-evil-vanishes/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Google's credo of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Don't Be Evil"</strong> and even more so with parent company Alphabet's credo of <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Do the Right Thing"</strong>. </a></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As the nature of business becomes more “digital” a pay-as- you-go Consumption based IT cost model is likely to emerge as a major disrupter to the traditional view of IT as a Capital Expenditure. The authors investigate some of the drivers for this shift; how it is likely to play out in the board room and the approaches which can be used to make this disruption a positive one for the corporation.</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Synchronicity of IT Spend with Corporate Revenue</strong></em></div>
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As we look at the IT–Business interaction from a strategic perspective esp. as it relates to the cost/funding dimension (manifested in the annual and long term budgeting exercises and periodic cost-reduction initiatives) we see one of the basic issues as <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“synchronicity” – How can IT spend be more closely aligned with the ebbs and flows of the business revenue stream?</strong></div>
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In many large corporations this issue also impacts the IT long term vision of transitioning to a simplified, streamlined end-state architecture (vis-à-vis the convoluted mish-mash of legacy applications which generally exists) as the<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">business becomes increasingly wary of making the large investments required to drive the necessary changes as their own revenue projections fluctuate.</strong> In fact in some cases the large IT investments seem to be paying off at least initially but as time progresses the IT cost increase is far more disproportionate to the revenue increase.</div>
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From a CFO perspective, then, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a pay-as-you-go model seems very attractive</strong>. In the most simplistic configuration <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all applications will be hosted in the cloud with business users being charged based on the actual consumption of resources.</strong></div>
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Rather than implementing any major platform initiative in-house with its associated fixed costs (Capex), <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">technology vendors will be required to provide the desired capabilities as a consumption based service</strong> (Opex). Technology products if built in-house can be done so using the pay-as-you-go resources from a cloud vendor. These capabilities can also be leveraged to evaluate the feasibility of the product from a business perspective and to pilot risky projects without significant budget commitment. This shifts the initial fixed investment outlay into smaller outlay paid every month based on the usage.</div>
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Another key premise is that since the vendor will be leveraging economies of scale over a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">larger user base they will be able to drive the costs down significantly</strong> more than if the company would be able to do hosting applications in-house.</div>
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The nature of the products and services offered by corporations are also dramatically changing with the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“digital” component becoming a key part of the offering and value proposition for the customer</strong>. For example a traditional product may now be bundled with a digital service enabling customers to access and store content. IT processes and infrastructure will play a role in securing the digital files, storing them and enabling access to these files.</div>
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As a result the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IT infrastructure component of the cost of the offering needs to have a more direct alignment to the total cost</strong> rather than just be an allocation of a fixed charge. In essence since IT infrastructure is essentially becoming the digital supply chain for the offering and as for any conventional product, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the supply chain costs have to be in alignment with the revenue for the product.</strong></div>
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Couple this with the growing <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEO perspective that most of IT spend is<a href="http://wikibon.com/the-forward-looking-cio/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“non-differentiating for the business.”</a></strong> They also realize that as their business becomes more “digital” creating and securing their digital assets is critical to maintaining the corporate reputation. As IT spend is growing CEOs would like to demand more out of it. And they would definitely like more accountability and transparency about the burgeoning expenses. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A granular Pay-as-you-go cost model creates more transparency in what the “non-differentiating” portions of IT are costing on a per transaction or a per user basis.</strong></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The CIO’s Dilemmas</strong></em></div>
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Not many CIOs have climbed this bandwagon though. Some of their wariness comes about because of the s<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ecurity implications of moving everything off-premises</strong> and also from the viewpoint of looking at the <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">historical investments in-house IT infrastructure and data-centers as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sunk cost</a></strong>. Economists would argue that the sunk-cost dilemma is moot, per the “bygones principal” only the "extra" or "marginal" costs and benefits of every decision need to be evaluated. Ideally the past costs should be ignored and the future costs and benefits taken into consideration when making such a decision: A hard-headed calculation of the extra costs one will incur and weighing them against extra advantages. But this is most easier said than done. Also, what many times gets ignored is that while the one-time cost of implementing an application or building an infrastructure may have been “sunk”, there are associated recurring costs – licensing, electricity, manpower etc. which are very much real and need to be factored in.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CIOs are also not yet fully sold on the idea of a pay-as-you-go or Consumption based IT cost model being as “variable” as it is touted to be.</strong> The likelihood of vendors introducing some “fixedness” ((start-up charges, launching charges, termination fees etc.) to the mix looms large. In some cases vendors have begun allaying the fears by agreeing to abstain from any “fixed” components in their cloud offerings. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They also fear that their organization may not have the clout to motivate vendors to move to such an opex model.</strong> But that is likely to change as increasingly larger number of companies demand something similar.</div>
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CIOs have to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">worry about their in-house legacy applications</strong> too. The ones that cannot be hosted outside for a myriad of reasons. They can be though moved to private clouds – changing from “fixed charge allocation to business” cost model to consumption based usage charges. And then, what about the vendors who are not able to offer their capabilities as a cloud hosted subscription/usage based solution? Multiple vendors collaborating to resolve this is an option – one provides the application and other the cloud access.</div>
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This brings us to another very important point. <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While organizations may not be ready to move to a pay-to-go-model yet there is still a considerable opportunity to leverage the model to drive IT costs down.</strong> In the<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">absence of a consumption based “tariff”</strong>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“Tragedy of the Commons”</a> kind of scenario plays out where <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a shared common resource is inefficiently or sub-optimally utilized</strong>, somewhat like the scenario where free electricity or water leads to <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">more waste and a lesser incentive to conserve</strong>. Currently IT cost reduction initiatives are generally periodic percentage cost reduction targets emanating from Corporate Finance or Business Leadership. IT generally responds by chipping away at cost elements to the best it can.</div>
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If organizations choose to move to the cloud or embrace a public cloud vendor or have everything on an in-house cloud, it is <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">essential that they embed transactional cost modeling into the design of the IT solution or product.</strong> In this approach the IT architecture is used as a basis to model all the cost elements associated with the application. Even legacy applications can be modeled as if the applications were hosted on a private cloud and then can be benchmarked against the rates quoted by cloud providers like <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services</a> or <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/?&WT.srch=1&WT.mc_ID=SEM_ZHl3YJWF&bknode=" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Microsoft Azure</a> for the same capabilities. Business users can be exposed to this cost comparison as an element of a “Go Out vs. Stay In” decision making.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The rigors of such a cost modeling exercise will also expose the business to discrete elements of IT costs which have hitherto remained hidden in larger silos</strong>. For example the cost associated with an IT solution or an application is not just the cost associated with the Production infrastructure. Even the Development and Test infrastructure that is used needs to be counted towards the operational cost of the application. If the company doesn’t have an offshore team or only works in two shifts then the development instances can be operational only during the actual hours of working reducing the number of hours in a year from 8760 to 2008 hours a reduction of over 75%.</div>
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Even production applications do not have to necessarily operate outside a time window and by building a flexible downtime capability within the application, one can schedule downtimes to minimize the costs outside the window of operations.</div>
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<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Failure to recognize the pay-as-you-go IT model as a platform disrupter can be very detrimental for organizations.</strong> The successful ones will leverage the trend to drive down costs and will reap the benefits. Adoption of the model does not need to be a revolutionary change as organizations can follow a more evolutionary approach by first focusing on it as a mechanism to get a better understanding of their own IT costs and endeavor to make them more “variable”, truly reflecting the demand patterns.</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-733034538787782562015-09-15T09:39:00.000-04:002015-09-15T09:39:01.215-04:00Cartoons, Innovation, Out-of-the-Box Thinking and The New Yorker!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its not everyday that one receives an email from <a href="http://www.bobmankoff.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Bob Mankoff</a>, Cartoon Editor of the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">New Yorker</a> magazine. And so I was pleasantly surprised and intrigued when one landed in my In Box a few months ago.</div>
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Turns out I was one of the 500+ people who had made over 200 submissions in the New Yorker's weekly Cartoon <a href="http://contest.newyorker.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Caption Contest </a>. I have been a regular contributor and submitting a caption for the week's contest has become kind of a Monday morning ritual for me. But wow, 200+ over the years, I had not realized that!</div>
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What Bob wanted me to do was to help him out with an experiment he was conducting online using the caption contest as a model. He provided five links, each of which took me to a separate survey which contained a series of cartoon images without captions that I was asked to supply captions for. In the caption contest I am limited to one caption. Now the idea was to come up with as many as I could. </div>
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The experiment has closed but here are the links in case anyone is interested in taking a peek:</div>
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<a href="https://www.research.net/s/coffeeshopA" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.research.net/s/coffeeshopA</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.research.net/s/movieA" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8c68cb; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">https://www.research.net/s/movieA</a> </blockquote>
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I was intrigued. I was not sure though what he was driving at. My guess was that he was trying to assess whether including animal images or other elements like supersizing objects or introducing inanimate objects like walls in the cartoon influences the creative output of the respondents (e.g. are there more captions when the sales clerk is a boy vs. when it is an octopus).</div>
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When I asked Bob he told me that the basic idea was to see how increasing the incongruous frames of reference that have to be combined with the caption influences the ability to create a caption.</div>
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The default condition for something like a caption contest is that there is one incongruous object that needs to be made sense of or at least the pseudo sense that is often involved in humor by the caption.</div>
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In the survey he bracketed the default condition (coffee shop, huge cup of coffee) on one side with no incongruous object (just a couple) and with an additional one (animals).</div>
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His assumption is that the default condition will be the ideal one for real creativity, but also that <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">people who can come up with captions that combine two incongruous objects are more creative in this task overall and maybe even more creative in other kinds of problem solving.</strong></div>
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Profound. That's what my reaction was. The results he came up with could be extended to other aspects of creativity and innovation too. Bob agreed, <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the premise is that being creative in this task would be an indicator of “out of the box” thinking in other domains.</strong></div>
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When I checked with him recently about the survey findings he indicated that the results are still being analyzed and will be included in a research paper with his academic collaborators.</div>
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I wait with bated breath.... My intellectual curiosity yet to be fully sated!</div>
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A colleague pointed me to the article <a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/7783.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams</a> about a <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48350" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">research paper</a> authored by <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Amy C. Edmondson</a>, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and lead researcher Melissa A. Valentine. We were in a conversation about <a href="http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6997.html" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Teaming</a>.</div>
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In this paper they look at how the fluid, short term teams which are very commonplace in the work environment today can work better with a minimal structure - a "scaffold". The team scaffold which is fixed leads to greater collaboration and efficiency on the temporary team while individual team members flow through the structure.</div>
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It is interesting to see the term "scaffold" used to describe the minimal structures put in place to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of temporary teams.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />However, the term "scaffold" in its traditional usage also implies a sense of "temporariness" and "ugliness" (eyesores is how some describe them). Scaffolds are generally taken down once the building construction/renovation is complete.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I asked Prof. Edmondson : Does the use of the term "scaffold" in context of this article imply that these minimal structures are in the longer term to be replaced by some structures which are more lasting and more intrinsic to the organization/ teams (rather than the scaffold which is temporary and extrinsic/external)?</div>
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Her response was:</div>
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I don't think all scaffolds, and especially not these, are ugly. Their beauty in a way stems from their simplicity. </blockquote>
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You're right about the temporariness. Here, the temporariness lay in the configurations of people - which were constructed and disbanded constantly... the the essential core of their shared work was ongoing, despite replacements of each expert in an ongoing way.</blockquote>
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This sparked off an interesting conversation with Prof. Edmondson-</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Prof. Edmondson: </strong>I totally get it! Fortunately, our scaffolds are not ugly, but they are simple, and they are enabling - vs. trying to take over and structure the work in a heavy handed way. Maybe not an ideal term. Oh well!</em></div>
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What could be the drivers for transitioning the “scaffold” into a more permanent “skeleton”/framework for a more lasting structure? </div>
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I would say, for temporary work groups, with team members constantly changing, the idea of having a loose, lightweight structure in place makes lot of sense. New team members can hit "the ground running".</div>
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For more long term teams a "skeleton" (a more robust framework of procedures, processes and guidelines) may be the way to go. </div>
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I hung my sales hat a few years ago and transitioned into the world of IT (Moved over to the <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dark side</strong>? or the <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bright side</strong>? depends on your perspective).</div>
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As I interact with friends and peers on either side of the Sales/IT "divide" one issue keeps cropping up all the time -</div>
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Well, for one I tell them the crux lies in the <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SOLUTION</strong>.</div>
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CIOs are not looking for just products or services; they are looking for SOLUTIONs to business and technology problems they have to help their stakeholders/value chain partners address.</div>
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And what exactly could be your <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SOLUTION</strong>?</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">S</strong> - Solve don't sell.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O</strong> - Orient yourself.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">L</strong> - Leverage "connections".<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">U</strong> - Understand the CIO's pain points.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T</strong> - Talk to the CIO's ego/passions. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I</strong> - Individualize the message.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">O</strong> - Observe, Introspect, Correct.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">N</strong> - Nimble and Responsive.</div>
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The HBR article <a href="https://hbr.org/2015/04/reusable-bags-make-people-buy-organicand-junk" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Reusable Bags Make People Buy Organic—and Junk: An Interview with Uma Karmarkar</a> makes interesting reading. The same study is also quoted in a recent Economist article: <a href="http://t.co/plnMPQWuQB" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Eco-waverers: When people feel good about themselves, they do bad things</a> .</div>
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The study highlights the fact that we like to reward ourselves for good behavior and often that reward is contrary to the positive benefits of the good behavior (a few scoops of ice-cream after an extra mile on the treadmill- we've all been there).</div>
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<a href="http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=588196" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Uma Karmarkar</a>'s (<a href="https://twitter.com/uma_karma" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@uma_karma</a>) study finds that people who take reusable bags to their grocers also buy more junk food. This comes about as a result of the "feel good" feeling they get from using reusable bags.</div>
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In my opinion what would be interesting is to see if the behavior changes if the perceived root cause goes away. Will the shoppers be as likely to "reward" themselves with junk if there was no feel good feeling associated with bringing their own bag ?</div>
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Another point is that while the limited facts about the study shared in the interview indicate a <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"correlation"</strong> between purchase of junk food and bringing their own bags, I am not so sure that <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"causation"</strong> has been clearly established - bringing own bag led to purchase of more junk food.</div>
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It could be possible that the basket of purchases for the individuals in question skewed towards junk foods even when they were not bringing their own bags in. When the historical purchase behavior is studied then only a more definitive conclusion that the bag being brought in is influencing the purchase decision can be drawn.</div>
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Right now the facts as presented in the HBR article are equivocal and not conclusive enough to draw the inferences implied in the article.</div>
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I asked these questions to Uma and here's what she had to say:</div>
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Deepak Sethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07719056772567377429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364347417299521615.post-45301336182270369872015-04-01T11:19:00.000-04:002015-04-01T11:19:52.029-04:00From McKinsey&Co: Why CIOs should be business-strategy partners<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Interesting <a href="http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/why_CIOs_should_be_business-strategy_partners?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1502" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">article</a> from McKinsey&Co. Though the article title says <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“CIO”</strong> I think it is <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">relevant for all roles in the IT organization esp. at the leadership level.</strong></div>
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It starts off with a very troubling finding :</div>
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few executives say their IT leaders are closely involved in helping shape the strategic agenda, and confidence in IT’s ability to support growth and other business goals is waning.</blockquote>
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Another interesting disconnect the article highlights:</div>
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Nearly half of technology respondents see cost cutting as a top priority—in stark contrast to the business side, where respondents say that supporting managerial decision making is one of IT’s top priorities”.</blockquote>
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One may wonder why IT is more pessimistic about its funding than the business itself is. I guess most<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> IT organizations have been through one too many boom and bust cycles</strong> and so are a tad bit more skeptical about budgetary prospects even as the economy recovers.</div>
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They talk about:</div>
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Despite downbeat assessments of IT effectiveness, the results suggest one clear element of high-performing IT organizations: active CIO involvement in the business.</blockquote>
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Here’s what they suggest as remedial actions:</div>
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Food for thought. Many IT teams do a great job of engaging with the business and participating in their strategy formulation, this article provides some <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bench-marking/self-assessment criteria</strong>.</div>
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Had an interesting conversation with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a major Fortune 500 corporation regarding Information Security a few days ago. The freewheeling conversation spanned many dimensions of the Information Security universe.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Security- The Public Posture.</em></strong> We exchanged some thoughts on what the public posture of large corporations should be around the issue of Information Security. One school of thought goes that making any claim about a company’s security practices in the public domain is as good as painting a bull’s eye on one’s back as a target for information thieves and hackers. While another school goes that the more you establish your thought and practice leadership in this area the better it is in terms of how your customers and stakeholders value you and are willing to give a premium for your products and services . A fine thin line to walk for sure. The jury is still out as to which would be a better approach. A middle path should be the best course. Easier said than done though in a veritable minefield.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Security and The Internet of Things</em></strong>. Switching gears. One thing is for sure though. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Internet of Things</a> is here and is here to say. The “Thing” can be a power-plant as it could be the toaster on your kitchen shelf. And yes, the devices which the corporation makes are “Things” in the Internet of Things too. A network is as strong as its weakest link. And we would need to ensure that our devices do not become a point of entry for any person with evil intentions. Not that people are not trying though. See-saw battles between hackers and protectors is the order of the day. Govt. focus is on protecting the critical infrastructure elements which are now part of this Internet of Things.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Information Security and the Generational Dilemma.</strong></em> Another interesting dilemma is the ever-changing public perceptions about the nature of personal data and the security it needs. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Millennial</a> , much more attuned to a “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_economy" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Sharing Economy</a>” (think Uber, airbnb et al) has a different perspective on sharing personal data then say a Generation “X”er. And with the plethora of data leakages happening almost every day (the <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/anthem-health-insurance-hack-hit-as-many-as-19m-non-customers/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Anthem Insurance hack</a>, one more in a long list), each one bigger than the last the public is slowly getting desensitized esp. since there is no big direct economic impact for most individuals other than slowly upward creeping cost of security which gets passed on to the consumer who does not feel the impact (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“boiling frog” syndrome</a>) .</div>
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All interesting challenges which keep the CISO and his team thinking even as they deal with the other daily challenges like the malware laden spam messages that target our mailboxes or building security approaches spanning the various entities that make up the organization.</div>
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