The misconception that online gaming only leads to negative outcomes like immaturity, addiction, poverty, or wasted time can be challenged by examining the technology behind it and its potential for...
May 09, 2023
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In the second installment of our Navigator MasterClass on Emerging Trends, we explore Privacy Enhancing Computation, a field of study that aims to safeguard sensitive data throughout any computing...
May 03, 2023
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We're excited to announce the launch of our new Navigator MasterClass on Emerging Trends, a monthly series that will run alongside our existing Emerging Technologies series. Our inaugural column...
Apr 04, 2023
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No one needs any more reading material on Metaverse. After all, the 283-page report (“The Metaverse in 2040”) published last year by Pew Research Center opens with “Hope? Hype? Hell? Maybe All 3”....
Mar 10, 2023
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This is the 6th column of the series called Navigator MasterClass, wherein we will find our way through the myths and realities of one Bleeding Edge technology each month; in terms of where it truly...
Feb 17, 2023
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A few years back, Gartner reported that GE is looking at integrating manufacturing at an early stage of its supply chain. As a quick primer, let us recognize that Manufacturing is about three...
Jun 30, 2022
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You are in an electronic showroom because it is time to buy a 50-60” TV for your wall. The showroom manager is all over you trying to convince which model will look best at your wall. And (s)he hasn’...
May 20, 2022
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This is the 3rd column of the 12-part series called Navigator MasterClass, wherein we will find our way through the myths and realities of one Bleeding Edge technology each month; in terms of where...
Apr 19, 2022
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This is the 2nd column of the 12-part series called Navigator MasterClass, wherein we will find our way through the myths and realities of one Bleeding Edge technology each month; in terms of where...
Feb 24, 2022
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With this month’s column, we start a 12-part series called Navigator MasterClass, wherein we will find our way through the myths and realities of one Bleeding Edge technology each month; in terms of...
Jan 19, 2022
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“Data Science” is being bandied about everywhere. Some IT departments have got it working, some are working on it, some will start soon, and others want to do it. But if you ask a few practitioners...
Nov 08, 2021
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This is the fifth in our series examining Data and its idiosyncrasies. In the last four instalments, we looked at Data Visualization and Stories, Thick Data, Data Confluence, and the Data-Discovery-...
Oct 04, 2021
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This is the fourth in our series examining Data and its idiosyncrasies. In the last three instalments we looked at Data Visualization and Stories, Thick Data, and Data Confluence. We start this...
Jul 06, 2021
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This is the third viewpoint in this series on data and its idiosyncrasies. We have looked at qualitative data and its pervasiveness. We will now look at what we may have and what we may not have...
Jun 09, 2021
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Continuing with our series on interesting aspects of data, we will today look at the data of Human Insights; something missed by organizations. Almost universally. A majority of business and IT...
Apr 13, 2021
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Data, data, everywhere, not a drib to sniff. To say that there is data overload faced by almost every organization would be an understatement. The problem is so serious that multiple lines of careers...
Feb 04, 2021
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Much has been written about the role of CIO since William Synnott and William Gruber introduced it in their 1981 book, “Information Resource Management: Opportunities and Strategies for the 1980s”....
Dec 24, 2020
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In a recent article, this columnist wrote about how COVD-19 has changed the speed of adoption of mature technologies that existed in niche industries. Here we will talk about how COVID-19 is pushing...
Dec 02, 2020
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A recent Google search of “COVID-19 Information Technology” produced 6,100 million results. This column is not going to add to the clutter of ideas, thoughts, opinions and models. Instead we will...
Sep 28, 2020
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This column not a treatise to support or refute the contention that internet is the next best thing after sliced bread. In addition to the two being incomparable and thus not belonging in the same...
Aug 12, 2020
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A lot of us (almost derisively) call technology a toy; and one does sometimes see techies running around with stars in their eyes. We will discount them and the opinions on them for the current...
Jun 23, 2020
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A lot of businesses are pursuing the dream of a “singular view” of their customer; it is widely believed to give “competitive” / “first-mover” advantage in the marketing arena. The IT departments are...
May 11, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is surrounding us in many ways. We will look at some of the uses, with extra focus on ‘Business’. But first, let us consider the industry evangelists like Bill Gates,...
Apr 01, 2020
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There are certain commonsense rules that are frequently ignored or forgotten. Some of these are quite obvious in themselves, but get lost in the day-to-day noise. We will also look at common reasons...
Feb 25, 2020
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“Data is King.” “We need data to back up this claim/strategy/hypothesis.” All this continues to be said despite sufficient instances warning us of relying too much on data. This is becoming more...
Feb 05, 2020
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Future-Tech
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One of the perils of being an IT leader is facing a lot of “new technology” hype on a daily basis, not just from vendors (whose every version upgrade is an invention of the future) and consultants (...
Jan 14, 2020
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Future-Tech
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Every new technology labels itself as “disruptive”, and the next claimant to business “transformation”. Before we address whether this is true or not, let us see what transformation means. It is a...
Dec 03, 2019
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