Beyond Digital | Technology Transformation | Enterprise Strategy
Is this “Hustle-Culture”? Soham Parekh is a Mumbai-based software engineer who simultaneously worked for multiple Silicon Valley startups over the last 2 years. His case has presented the tech world a very fascinating ethical dilemma that personally, I think transcends the simple questions of workplace …
Apple, last week, entered the AI debate in a very interesting way. They published a Whitepaper that basically challenges the AI industry’s core assumptions on machine learning and reasoning… Apple’s research suggests that large reasoning models (LRMs) that form the basis for AI’s complex problem …
“Your data has been compromised.” These five words have become so common in my inbox that they’ve almost lost their capacity to alarm me anymore. The first time I ever saw this announcement, I realised that I’d probably need to quit my day job just …
Innovation has become something of a paradox in many large orgs today. On the surface, companies claim to value creativity and new ideas, yet in practice, they often stifle internal innovation in favour of acquiring startups. This approach, while tempting, is a short-term fix that …
Some 4 years ago, Apple Inc. gifted us their latest (at the time) innovation in music headphones, the AirPods Max. When I saw my first pair, like anyone faced with a new tech device, I looked around for the power button but couldn’t find any. …
If you were born in the 20th century then like me you’d probably remember a time when memorising phone numbers was a thing. In the 21st century that feat has passed for a ‘lost art’. Today we outsource our memory to Silicon Valley companies and …
There’s no denying that AI is one of the most mind-blowing technologies of our time. One of its better known children – Generative AI – is everywhere: writing text, creating images, coding… even attempting jokes (though I don’t think we’re quite there yet with this …
I’ll start with a disclaimer: This isn’t about Netflix replacing Blockbuster – and that’s a beautiful story, but for another day – or Spotify replacing the weekly trip to the Record store. This is about something more fundamental and perhaps, even sinister. It’s about a …
I first wrote and published my thoughts on this matter in a blog circa early 2016 on LinkedIn. This was well before some of the major supermarket chain mergers that we have today. Back then, the digital transformation of retail was quite well underway, one …
The Challenge When significant change occurs in a business, more commonly, the business leaders also update their company strategy to face up the the change and for non-tech focused businesses, the tendency is also usually to focus last, if at all, on the technology that …