Tag: analysis
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Link: Richard Florida predicts Amazon HQ2 location
‘At the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and DC, the world’s power corridor. When I asked Scott Galloway, the author of the book “The Four,” where he thought Amazon would place its new headquarters, he simply said: New York, New York, and New York.…
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Link: Explaining the problems in The Last Jedi
“It is a movie about knowing what’s right and doing that, even though everything else in the universe is stacked against you. It is a movie about why you might start a rebellion against a fascistic order, rather than simply going along with the status quo. Part of the movie is about how the worst…
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White men to women and minorities in tech: We just DGAF
Less than 5% of white men surveyed said they considered a lack of diversity a top problem. Three-out-of-four respondents were unaware of any initiatives to make their companies or portfolios more diverse. And 40% of male respondents were sick of the media going on and on about it. Meanwhile, in political land: the more privileged…
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Link: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
“Worldwide PC shipments totaled 70.7 million units in 3Q15, up 8.6% sequentially but down 11.1% from the previous year.” Source: PCs: 3Q15 Update from IDC
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Analyst Watch: Macro confusion about microservices – SD Times
Analyst Watch: Macro confusion about microservices – SD Times
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New Influence Quadrant shows ‘powerhouse’ firms in trouble
New Influence Quadrant shows ‘powerhouse’ firms in trouble
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The “purpose driven reader”
A number of trends in media have left most news sites catering to a new kind of reader. According to the stereotype, this reader doesn’t visit news home pages, relying on starting points like Facebook instead. This reader sees news as just another category of entertainment, an escape or time-killer, and believes “important news will…
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The new industry analysts, again
Never mind journalism, it’s industry analysts who are being disrupted. I keep coming across a new crop of IT industry analysts who end up getting compared incorrectly to journalists. It’s little wonder as most people have little idea what an industry analyst does; it’s not like analysts, hidden behind their austere paywalls, help much there.…
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Business as usual is the only way rigid organisations can operate; workers are shown only what to do, but not why they do it. They are not paid to make value judgements; in fact they are forbidden to do so. When circumstances change, someone with a bit of wisdom would recognise the fact and perhaps…
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How to be a hardware analyst…?
After reading an, as ever, great, deep coverage of some new fangled piece of hardware from TPM, I got to thinking: I don’t really know how hardware analysts approach their craft. What framing and context do they use to understand, evaluate, and judge any given chunk of hardware? I’ve never been much of a hardware…
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Zombies vs. Vampires – who would win?
One of my colleagues recently asked this question. Through a series of detailed logic-gates, we can conclude the following two scenarios: In much zombie lore, zombies don’t like to eat (long) dead things or even diseased humans (cf. World War Z, the movie). Therefore: vampires win because they’re immune. However, if the cause of zombie-ism…
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IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
Down 15% for consumers, 5% for business users. IDC forecasts continuing PC decline for 2013
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Things analysts forecasts won’t tell you
“These old technologies are holding us back. They’re anchors on where we want to go,” he said. “We find the things that have outlived their useful purpose. Our competitors are afraid to remove them. We try to find better solutions – our customers have given us a lot of trust. In general, it’s a good…
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