“Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity protection brand.” And lots more details, including recent Broadcom acquisitions and pressures. Source: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B

“Symantec will be left with its consumer product portfolio, which includes the Norton antivirus software and LifeLock identity protection brand.” And lots more details, including recent Broadcom acquisitions and pressures. Source: Broadcom acquires Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7B

There's yet to be any real evidence that Uber's business model will ever do anything other than burn investors' money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion

There's yet to be any real evidence that Uber's business model will ever do anything other than burn investors' money to make traffic worse. Source: Uber’s no-good, terrible-rotten bad Q2 loses more than $5 billion

This is a draft excerpt from a book I’m working on, tentatively titled The Business Bottleneck. If you’re interested in the footnotes, leaving a comment, and the further evolution of the book, check out the Google Doc for it. Also, the previous excerpt, “The Finance Bottleneck." Digital transformation is a fancy term for customer innovation and operational excellence that drive financial results. John Rymer & Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester, Feb 2019. The traditional approach to corporate strategy is a poor fit for this new type of digital-driven business and software development.

Toyota is working to have 70% of new cars connected globally by 2020, with almost all of those in the U.S. and Japan. Automakers are already using the cloud to generate revenue through telematics insurance and car-sharing services. Toyota also has talked about using data to alert dealers when cars need servicing, provide information about road and traffic conditions for smart city planning, and inform retailers where their customers are commuting from to allow more targeted marketing.

If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t necessary to adjust your payment methods for them. But you’d be wrong. For each international customer that makes a purchase, there could be others who abandon checkout because they aren’t comfortable with any of the options available. Source: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases

If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t necessary to adjust your payment methods for them. But you’d be wrong. For each international customer that makes a purchase, there could be others who abandon checkout because they aren’t comfortable with any of the options available. Source: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases

“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery

“It’s 2019 so apparently everyone has a service mesh. Istio has been the most hyped – it has solid corporate backing from IBM, Google, Pivotal and SAP. These companies now need to do a better job of nailing use cases.” HashiConf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2019/08/07/hashiconf-eu-2019-the-service-mesh-push/ via Instapaper Source: Hashiconf EU 2019: The Service Mesh push and Progressive Delivery