digital Transformation
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E-health is coming to our homes
Ehealth is no longer a dream and we had further evidence of this at Mobile World Congress today in Barcelona while visiting the “connected house” pavilion. Let’s zoom into these solutions of a very very near future in which our health and namely that of elderly citizens will be (ethically)…
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Innovation isn’t always where you think it is
It may seem strange but somehow, I’m not entirely certain that innovation is always where you think it is. Sometimes it lurks in corners, or even is conspicuous but you were looking in another direction. Perhaps that’s what happened at showstoppers on February 26th (a preview event before MWC in…
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First few slices of technological innovation at MWC
First few slices of technological innovation at the 2012 MWC event. You certainly know you are in Spain when you can spot the Patanegra at a buffet, but the motivation for the happy few who were present and invited act the showstoppers event in Barcelona today, didn’t quite come for…
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API jungle: What brands should do with this surfeit of APIs
As I started writing this article at the beginning of October 2011 , the http://www.programmableweb.com/[1] web site indicated on its home page that it has identified 4007 APIs and 6175 mash-ups on a global footprint: At the moment you are reading this piece on the Visionary Marketing, I am certain…
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2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison
2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison. There are several ways of looking at the market share comparison map by iCrossing. One is to highlight that Apple now has gone over the 50% market share mark in many countries (per below). 2011 Worldwide Mobile OS market share comparison Another is…
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Microsoft kills the PC, once again, but it might not work
Microsoft is trying to kill the good ol’ PC once again, but it might not work. As Erik Sherman demonstrates in his piece on the death of the PC. After all, as the late Mark Weiser (the true inventor of tablets) originally came up with his idea of ‘ubiquitous computing‘ in…
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Helping employees better perform should be the focus of managers
Helping employees better perform should be the focus of managers. Despite the fact that his flight was not able to take him further than New York and let alone Munich, Fons Trompenars was brought live from New York by Orange thanks to its network of telepresence rooms. Helping employees better…
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Hockey legend Mark Messier’s leadership lessons
Hockey legend Mark Messier taught us some great leadership lessons on May 10, 2011, in Bratislava, Slovakia. The guest speaker at that Orange Biznis meeting was the much revered Canadian Ice Hockey legend Mark Messier, who is now retired. Mark had come to share with us some of his best tips…
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Data Centre innovation: Nexenta is a kind of Linux for storage
On June 1, 2010, we paid a visit to Nexenta, to attend a company presentation on data centre storage innovation delivered by Jon Ash, VP of Sales and Marketing and Brad Stone, CTO. There are 30 people working for Nexenta, a lot of the development being done in Russia, and…
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Joyent enables service providers to deploy a new Cloud in a few weeks
To deploy a new cloud can be time-consuming. With Joyent, things may change greatly for service providers. The last visit of our November press tour in Silicon Valley took place in downtown San Francisco, with Joyent, an innovative company dedicated to Cloud deployments. Joyent is now planning to deploy in…
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Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future
Back in June 2010, we visited Blade Network Technologies, a Nortel spin-off which was doing exceptionally well in the data centre business by providing networking infrastructure and services within the data centre. Blade Network Technologies and IBM: plans for the future A concept Vikram Mehta had described as being the…
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