Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’
The Inversion Factor: How IoT Changes Everything
Inversion is the phenomenon that enables businesses to grow and thrive dramatically by allowing customer-needs to drive what products and services a company should have, vs, outdated product specs and offerings, often missing customer desires and needs. One of the key enablers of Inversion is IoT. IoT creates the network of connecting things, enabling companies…
Read MoreReady? Security Robots at Your Local Mall, Store and Neighborhood?
Over the last year, I have been reading about security robots being introduced in public places and have seen them exhibited at shows, CES, etc. Knightscope is one such company. However, I have to tell you that even for someone like me who embraces technology, it was a surreal moment seeing this robot at my…
Read MoreThe Inversion Factor, How to Thrive in the IOT Economy
Had a great time speaking at this fireside chat at MIT Enterprise Forum with my co-author Sanjay Sarma and talking about The Inversion Factor. Excellent moderating by Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-chief at MIT Technology Review. You can watch the full talk below.
Read MoreMe and AI!
Me & AI: Turing exposed us to AI almost 69 years ago, the notion that a machine can think and process like a human. Clearly decades have gone by and we have not realized the full potential of AI and we are still a long ways away from Generalized AI. AI has gone through a…
Read MoreChatham House Primer: The Internet of Things
The phrase the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) has become synonymous with the next stage of humankind’s economic advancement. But what exactly is the IoT and why might it be so important? Linda Bernardi explains how the introduction of so-called ‘smart’ objects – from phones and cars to kettles and domestic central heating systems – might…
Read MoreAlexa, Siri, Cortana, Bixby: Headed for Collision or Success?
Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung & Apple: Pick up the pace of innovation please! Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Bixby: Headed for collision or success? With every tech company paralleling their efforts to introduce yet another virtual assistant- I had to pause today and wonder what is the interoperability plan? Today Samsung introduced its version of Siri: Bixby. So…
Read MorePodcast Interview with Gunter Media Group: Disruption and Innovation
Truly enjoyed my time with Darrell Gunter of Gunter Media Group, WSOU: Leadership with Darrell W. Gunter WSOU 89.5 FM, Seton Hall University. Great discussion about disruption and innovation and how to succeed! Next interview covers to topic of IoT and will be broadcast at 8 a.m. Eastern on April 1st! And we are planning…
Read MoreConsequential Disruption
Why Global Disruption is not enough. We Need to Disrupt MEANINGFULLY! Why? As you know, I have been a strong advocate of disruption leading to innovation from the 1st day of my career post graduate school (Mathematics) at BBN (Bolt Beranek & Newman) in Cambridge. We invented things that did not exist and in as…
Read MoreFantastic: Parallel or Sequential VC and Crowdfunding for Start-ups and Older Start-ups!
The article, Crowdfunding Isn’t Just for the Little Guys, by Katherine Rosman in the Wall Street Journal recently really sparked great thoughts in my mind. So, in this shorter than usual blog I wanted to share some thoughts with you. Initially, crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo were primarily designed for super-early-stage startups.…
Read MoreSoccer or Football, Anyone???
Dear readers and friends, I promise many new blogs being planned as we speak and I will be publishing these in the weeks to come. But for now, it is time to talk about something else. Why? Well, because it is FIFA-season! This is the first year that my family and I have missed the…
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