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🗂 Link: What the heck are content experiences, and why are we overhyping them? A skeptical riff
The two “tent poles” of quality B2B content are: Thought-provoking stuff that stakes your industry vision and customer know-how, making those who aren’t even your customers want to follow you. Helpful content from internal experts that covers the nitty-gritty of your products and services. In other words, all B2B content should either entertain or inform.…
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🗂 Link: VMware Adds Containers to Its Cloud Provider Platform
The platform also added an integration with VMware’s container orchestrator, Enterprise PKS, which means cloud providers can offer containers-as-a-service. And at VMworld the vendor will showcase a technology preview of vCloud Director integration with Bitnami Community. VMware bought Bitnami in May. It provides application packaging targeted at container and Kubernetes environments. The Bitnami Community houses…
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🗂 Link: No country for old men
Lots of Chinese people ask to have their picture taken with my daughter. No one asks for a picture with me. Source: No country for old men
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🗂 Link: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The key insight was to stop trying to build a mechanical carriage, and instead build something more like a mechanical horse. Source: Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
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The Business Bottleneck, new book
I’m working on a new book (check out the work in progress), here’s the premise: After at least five years of struggling to transformation, IT knows how to deliver better software, how to do the process and use the new tools needed for “digital transformation.” They may not actually do all that, but they know…
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🗂 Link: Spending on Customer Experience Technologies Will Reach $641 Billion in 2022, According to New IDC Spending Guide
Worldwide spending on customer experience (CX) technologies will total $508 billion in 2019, an increase of 7.9% over 2018, according to the inaugural Worldwide Semiannual Customer Experience Spending Guide from International Data Corporation (IDC). As companies focus on meeting the expectations of customers and providing a differentiated customer experience, IDC expects CX spending to achieve…
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🗂 Link: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few Have Implemented an Enterprise-Wide Strategy
An IDC “survey of global organizations that are already using artificial intelligence (AI) solutions found only 25% have developed an enterprise-wide AI strategy.” But: “More than 60% of organizations reported changes in their business model in association with their AI adoption.” Source: IDC Survey Finds Artificial Intelligence to be a Priority for Organizations But Few…
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🗂 Link: The Cost of Banking Is About to Go Up: What the Capital One Breach at Amazon Could Mean for the Industry
“The adoption of cloud platforms is a movement that will not be stopped,” says Jerry Silva, research director, IDC’s Financial Insights Group. “But there will be a slowdown as regulators step in to ensure that the security and resiliency structures that have always applied to banks directly are applied to the cloud providers with which…
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🗂 Link: Silicon Valley software techniques modernize 75-year-old plant
Raytheon Systems Engineer Sam Sauers and her team spearheaded one of the latest DevOps transformations on the program, introducing Silicon Valley-like processes like paired programming and pipeline development to help the Air Soldier team rapidly develop the technology. “We’re using commercial software best practices, including Agile and DevOps, to get new capabilities in days instead…
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🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry
“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous…
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🗂 Link: Build Your Next-Generation Business Case Using A Lifecycle
Too often, leaders think of a business case as a one-time checklist item. But the best practice — which will increase your likelihood of success — is to think of a business case as a lifecycle, an iterative process that involves many stakeholders and steps. This lifecycle has five phases: Source: Build Your Next-Generation Business…
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Banking “disruption,” or whatever – part 01
There’s near universal sentiment that traditional banks need to shift to improve and protect their businesses against financial startups, so called “FinTechs.” These startups create banks that are often 100% online, even purely as a mobile app. The release of Apple Pay highlights how these banks are different: they’re faster, more customer experience focused, and…
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🗂 Link: Developers schetsen gitzwart beeld van Booking.com
De Volkskrant spoke with fifteen (former) employees of the company in recent months. In the piece ‘ Bookings burn-out machine’ from the Saturday supplement, which can also be found online – the developers complain about programming language Perl, which forms the basis of the online platform and which they believe is being held too rigidly.…
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🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover
“By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development initiatives,” the report said. “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity.” Source: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover






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