The future of smart cities: do we really need them?
Smart cities are real but will we really need them in the future to solve the modern urban conundrum. On one hand, we can observe a huge increase in population … Read on
Category: digital Transformation
Digital transformation: one size fits all does not apply
What do a butterfly and the emission of water vapour have in common? At first sight nothing, except that both are the results of a transformation, the latter of a certain … Read on
Interactive Intelligence conquers collaboration market from the cloud
The collaboration market and “unified communication space” is a weird space. It has been around for ages (I used to be in charge of that product line for Orange at … Read on
Digital transformation: reinventing retail banking
With digital transformation, the retail banking market is being completely reconfigured. New players are entering the market and new expectations are high. Hence, retail banks need to change the way … Read on
Big Data: there is a dire need to get back to basics
Back to basics! Belgian expert Pierre Nicolas Schwab’s piece on Big Data based on his past assignments with companies trying to launch such initiatives. When I discovered Pierre Nicolas’s prose, … Read on
Gartner’s Vision On Data Privacy and The Future Of Mobility
What will be the future of mobility like? The opening session I attended this morning at the Gartner symposium was entitled “by 2017 your smartphone will be smarter than you”. The speakers … Read on
A pictorial guide to my Business portable Samsung Galaxy S4 office
As I am preparing for the Gartner symposium in Barcelona, due to take place on November 11 – 14, having been kindly invited by Samsung to join a team of … Read on
Infographic: Why passwords are a necessary evil
Passwords are ubiquitous. We all use them and despite the fact that we keep grumbling that they aren’t good enough, we still rely on them in order to protect our … Read on
Legal Copy of Microsoft Office With CloudOn
Let’s make the most of the summer with a bit of light reading and what I would call the application of the week: CloudOn. I have selected a number of … Read on
Marketforce Set to Improve European Shopping Experience
Shopping experience monitoring and mystery shoppers aren’t anything new; this marketing technique dates back from the 1940s. It was then used even before the term “marketing” had been coined. Yet, … Read on
What innovation really means: the data center robotics example
Data Center robotics can help us understand innovation a little better. We’ve already asked this question many times. What is innovation? What does it mean to build/sell/buy something “new”. And inevitably, … Read on
ZTE launches mega phone and announces shift in mobile industry
On February 25th, at the ZTE press conference about its release of a new large size mobile phone at Mobile World Congress, the show was not where you’d think it … Read on
