Quick quiz: why did I write this article you’re reading right now? I’m not getting paid a cent for writing it. I’m not pitching any…
You’re the CEO of a large company in the throes of a challenging digital transformation. You decide to walk the halls to see how the…
In my last Cortex newsletter I discussed the exponential growth pattern technology innovation always seems to follow, what Ray Kurzweil calls the law of accelerating…
We’re all familiar with Moore’s Law: the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every two years or so. We’re also…
Whoever actually came up with the purportedly Chinese curse exhorting us to live in interesting times surely had no inkling of the insane level of…
With the explosion of consumer technology options, digital transformation has upended retail more so than any other industry. From the retailer’s perspective, every device, every…
We’ve all been there: on our lunch hour we surreptitiously visit our favorite My Little Pony fan site. Then hours later we bring our laptop…
What it means to build quality software has taken a beating over the years. We’re no longer content to strive for defect-free code. We must…
Many traditional IT executives, reinvigorated and rejuvenated after attending last week’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, are now breathing a huge sigh of relief. They had…
Everybody likes a good cliffhanger, and my last Cortex newsletter offered a doozy: Know when to optimize and know when to disrupt – and above…
