Year: 2023
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Can Watsonx Rebuild IBM’s AI Relevance? – Analysis of IBM’s AI stuff. Also, a good side point: no one really knows anymore what IBM does.
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The Pessimism Problem Continues to Grow – It’s 60% now: ’Back in 2020, I wrote a post titled “The Pessimism Problem.” We had completed a survey where 54% of respondents agreed with the statement “We regret nearly every purchase we make after the subscription agreement is finalized.”’
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A framework for council technology planning – SensibleTech – “We don’t have much – if any – ‘legacy’ code running on old virtualised mainframes like bits of central government do. In fact, a lot of what is called legacy in local government is anything but – it’s regularly updated and kept working and in line…
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Touchpoints, coalescence and multi-platform engineering — thoughts from Kubecon 2023 – A sum up of the trends and state of the kubernetes/cloud native community, but an even better picture of the setting and tone.
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Retrospective of 10 years of digital in the UK government – Great overview of the past ten(?) years of digital transformation in the UK government. I must say: this exact analysis probably applies private sector companies worldwide.
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Manage process before people – File under “must be nice…”
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Majority of Americans have heard of ChatGPT, but few have tried it – “Just 14% of U.S. adults have tried ChatGPT” – until that gets up to 50%, a lot of the freaking (& hype) is like fearing necromancy. Once you use it a lot you’re like “oh, I see. Not a threat. That dumb-ass…
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Extending the Pivotal Labs Way: How Tanzu Labs Helps Organizations Deliver Great Software – All about Tanzu Labs, the consulting group at VMware that helps your org get better at software. Their approach is very human centric, very pragmatic, and very effective.
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How Ecosystems Are Changing Insurance CX – An example of using digital stuff to improve insurance, here car insurance claims. Also, not the point of needing to integrate with all sorts of third parties and systems: “Vehicle claims are often complicated, involve several parties, and take a long time to resolve. Each participant in the…
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Thinking Strategically About Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) – As with most things, the whole SBOM push is probably a lot simpler to solve than it seems. Also, a delightful “old man yells at secure software supply chain hype” vibe as only Jon could do well.
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Don’t wait until 2025, you should be using generative AI stuff for most all of your marketing work today
Suggested theme song for this episode: 30% in 2025 implies low use in 2023 From the recent Gartner Marketing Symposium highlights: 64% of marketers have deployed, or are piloting, AI/ML to support autonomous campaign creation, execution, and optimization capabilities. [But:] Gartner predicts that by 2025, 30% of outbound marketing messages from large organizations will be…
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Cutting Costs by Cutting Waste – Instead of removing travel, R&D, etc. (which were thought to be required for your goals at once), focus on removing waste: Excessive risk management, analysis paralysis, unproductive meetings, imbalance of doing/watching, manual bureaucracy/toil.
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How Agile Value Management Creates Value Faster – Some metrics for measuring progress.
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On-Premises Cloud Is a Failure. Google Has the Fix – Or you could run Cloud Foundry and call it a day.
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