Business owners often suffer from a lack of confidence about their grasp of technology, especially IT. “Technology should be viewed as a competitive weapon, not a scientific curiosity”. There are three key questions to address.
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Pleased to have contributed the lead article to last months edition of the Nixene Journal, a monthly analysis of commercial and technological developments in the world of graphene.
Earlier in the summer, leisure travel giant TUI released a corporate video showcasing their exploration of blockchain technology as a means of managing their committed bedstock, an application they’ve dubbed ‘Bedswap’. CEO Fritz Joussen had previously attracted attention by commenting on the potential for blockchain technology to replace the likes…
Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Strategy, Part I – What is AI? “Artificial Intelligence (also AI) (noun) The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.” Oxford English Dictionary OED’s definition gives us…
Authored by Carl Michel, an Operating Partner of The Strategy Exchange, and originally published at Firedrop.ai. This week, I got an email from a large and well-known online hotel provider offering me some competitive options to book a hotel in Porto. Nothing extraordinary in that and yet it was completely…
In 1936, a promising young Cambridge Mathematician, Alan Mathison Turing, published a peculiar paper with a misleadingly dry title. On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem was an important piece of work in the world of formal mathematical logic, a world blown apart 5 years earlier by Kurt…
For as long as I can remember I’ve been enraptured by the written word. This is almost literally true. My second earliest clear memory is of sitting on the floor of our tiny porch, with my mother teaching me to read with a small chalkboard. As a child I would…
A review of Diesal? And Other Future Transport Fuels (60 minute briefing series) by Adrian Nixon. Can you make the cultural change from being miners to being farmers? Here’s how the author describes his own book: “This book is the first in a new series of briefings that can be…
The McKinsey Global Institute recently listed a dozen technologies with the potential to be so material as to disrupt the entire economy, over the next decade (see Disruptive Technologies: Advances that will transform life, business and the global economy): 1. Mobile internet 2. Automation of knowledge work 3. Internet of things…