Tag: innovation
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making money, taking care of people
The counter-point to all those Europe is decadent economic charts people put out: After roaming the Earth for 35 years, my conclusion is the U.S. is the best place to make money and Europe is the best place to spend it.” … In terms of moving bits, the Netherlands is one of Europe’s key connection…
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Three reasons why a “batteries included” platform is urgently needed right now
Removing product as a bottleneck: The conversation around PaaS is urgent again, and AI is why. Code generation can speed up your development cycles, building and pushing features faster, but production delays will persist if you’re still deploying at the same speed as before. To avoid eroding the benefits of code generation, you need to deploy…
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Always taste the digital transformation while you’re making it
At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His consultant of choice conducted stakeholder interviews and proposed a three-phase program scheduled to last 3.5 years: Phase 1: Fix digital basics and address the leftover…
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Go cheap on innovation. Otherwise you just buy PowerPoints. Jana Werner on using tight timelines and small teams to force real progress. From our interview with Jana Werner.
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AI, open source, talent, and more, live at cfgmgmtcamp 2026, with Andrew Clay Shafer
This week’s Software Defined Interviews episode was recorded live at #cfgmgmtcamp with Andrew Clay Shafer as a returning guest: Spotting talent, getting innovation adoption and driving use, open source, AI, and developing taste – those are the major topics Andrew and I discussed this week at a live recording. Also, a framework for creating the…
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Relevant to your interests, Wednesday
RIP the metaverse – It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. // The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the…
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Facebook shutting down metaverse. It’s fine to use your mountains of spare cash (and voting control) to try out new things. We’re all about innovation and expect it; you have to embrace lots of failure, giant failure. The actual problem is then discarding all the people you hired to help you. It shucks the “with…
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Industry analyst value after AI – how could Gartner use AI
Feeding the decades of Gartner research into some kind of AI querying thing would be interesting. Making sense of their reports takes a lot of time, and multi-year trends are hard to pick out. Writing into a chat window that was updated with not only the research reports, but also analyst opinions – maybe notes…
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Scoping questions for business books
What type of organization is this book for? IBM or Facebook or OpenAI? Netflix or Warner Brothers? Mercedes or Tesla? Alaska or Belgium? Delta or SpaceX? HSBC or Square? Does this apply to management, employees, VCs, Wall Street investors, or customers? Feel free to pick multiple, but explain. Is this a playbook for how a…
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20 years of business travel – you’ll get there, or you won’t
The first thing is, the travel industry changes very slowly. What changes most frequently is the interior decorating. The seats in planes, the plugs in hotel rooms, the signs in airports. Even these don’t change structurally, just in aesthetically. The biggest change in 20 years has been Uber. I started traveling in 20051 which meant…
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🤖 The 2025 OWASP Top 10 rebrands “Vulnerable Components” as “Software Supply Chain Failures” and elevates “Security Misconfiguration” to the number two spot. Chris Cropper and Rita Manachi analyze the changes and argue that bypassing security controls for the sake of “innovation” is increasingly a liability, not a competitive advantage. 🔗 Beyond a Team Sport,…
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The AI Apprentice’s Adventures
I’ve been wondering why the quality and ease of making stuff with AI has not resulting in a creative explosion. In particular with just a hefty dose of prompt-craft, you can get great D&D stuff. I’m guessing part of the reason is that the incumbent gate-keepers hate AI. They, rightly, see it as a threat…
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🤖 Europe’s Innovation Constitution Calls for Radical Economic Refocus
Europe’s prosperity is stagnating because the EU has strayed from its core mission: a functioning internal market that drives economic growth and innovation. This manifesto argues for a renaissance built on enforcing market rules, enabling creative destruction, and cutting regulatory dead weight. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: The Constitution of Innovation: A New European Renaissance.…
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Remember when DevSecOps was all the rage?
Enterprises are till trying to figure out DevSecOps: [M]any organizations remain stuck in siloed approaches that pose problems due to competing demands for speed, efficiency and risk reduction. Enterprises that effectively integrate security into software development and deployment–both through platforms and tools, and via cross-team collaboration– are better positioned to drive velocity, quality and innovation…
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What’s next in Sora
Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora
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Working as designed
‘allowing for controversial yet eye-catching content like AI celebrities, OpenAI is borrowing from a playbook perfected by social media companies such as Meta: Do whatever it takes to get users on the app and ask forgiveness later, said Thales Teixeira, a business professor at the University of California at San Diego. “First you grow, and…
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When you don’t know what you’re doing, do a lot of it
This a good, correct framing of the AI project failure stuff. No one really knows what will work and what they’re doing yet. As we learned in the digital transformation craze of the 2010’s, this means failure == learning. And learning is what you need to do a lot of. More so, this kind of…
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Thirty Years On, the Californian Ideology is Alive and Well – The cycle of tech loosing its democratic morals in favor of tech innovation, and, of course, making money.
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The European Cloud Dilemma: Innovation Versus Digital Sovereignty – Tough call.
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Reinvent the Wheel – ”Reinvent for insight. Reuse for impact.”
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