Disruption is imminent. Is your company prepared? Your IT department? You? What do bank tellers, assembly line workers, retail clerks, blacksmiths, and travel agents have in common? They have all been largely displaced by technology. Application developers are next. In just a few years Generative AI will produce most of Read more
For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a very simple metric to assess how serious a company is about its information management practices: The number of software releases delayed solely because the data has not been properly curated. I have yet to see a single example. Software releases Read more
Everybody likes a pithy definition. Marketers describe them as “sticky,” meaning that they’re easy to remember. Of course, that doesn’t always mean they’re useful or completely accurate. Information Management has a couple. Metadata is almost universally described as “Data About Data,” but I’d be willing to bet that you rolled Read more
A popular perception of artificial intelligence comes from the Menacing Computer movie genre. Skynet becomes self-aware and seeks to exterminate humanity. HAL9000 kills Discovery’s crew when they plan to disconnect it. Joshua wants to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War. And we’re all trapped in the matrix. Yes, there Read more
Most everybody loves new toys, and it’s not often that you get to try out a new kind of toy. This morning I test drove the new Apple Vision Pro, so I thought I’d add my thousand words to the millions being written about it today. The timing of the Read more