All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When a technology has its breakthrough, can often only be determined in hindsight. Answering these questions will be just as important as the effort to solve the technological challenges, and neither dogmas nor ideologies will help. In the past, AI technologies were so expensive that it was hardly worth it to use them.

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Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 147

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Nor should they on a technology utility. Their success is measured in revenue and yield.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

That involves regularly pruning features rather than adding them, continuously exploring common expectations and frequent frustrations, adding value by innovating where customers are most frustrated and establishing exposure hours with customers for the entire team. The Past, Present, And Future Of Interfaces. Why do we interface?

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. A company investigating a disruptive technology for its potential doesn't have to own the means by which it does that investigation.

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Social Media Entertainment Airlines Media 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.). The operating company is, though.

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Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40