Data Products are a bigger deal for you (and your company) than AI. You’ll see what I mean shortly. When I first started writing about Data Products, I mentioned my excitement at how information management had finally become the next big thing. Even better, the business was demanding the metadata. Read more…
Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Reservoir of Ideas. OK, enough pleasantries. I’m going to spend the first part of this year exploring the following observation: Many, if not most organizations have been struggling with the same Information Management and Data Governance challenges for decades. Certainly, we’ve seen Read more…
Hardware and software migration projects are like crack for IT executives. Especially when the number on the new invoice is smaller than the number on the old invoice. Even better when the products can be folded into a previously negotiated enterprise agreement and made to appear free. Add to that Read more…
Having worked in the transportation and logistics industry for nearly 30 years, the question that friends, family, and colleagues ask most often these days is some variation of, “Is Amazon going to start competing head-to-head with other parcel services?” Now I can just refer them here for my answer. Before Read more…
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…