Raja Renganathan - July 16, 2018 - 129 views

I read a very interesting tweet yesterday on Kubernetes’ Twitter channel. “We didn’t change our organization because we wanted to use #Kubernetes, we used Kubernetes because we wanted to change our organization.” The tweet showcases the tremendous value proposition that Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system, can bring to an enterprise in terms of […]

Brian Roche - July 13, 2018 - 79 views

Just as brilliant drummers have their pick of bands, top cloud-native developers and project managers can be choosy about their employers. They’re the rock stars of business, and they know it. If you’re not a “destination company” like Amazon, Facebook or Google, how do you entice top talent to work for you? (And if you’re […]

Ben Bengtson - July 11, 2018 - 80 views

Despite the recent decline in equity prices, the stock market has enjoyed an extraordinary bull market over the last decade. Those working in life & annuity (L&A) insurance companies can only look on in envy – like everyone is at a fabulous party to which they weren’t invited. Life & annuity insurers have barely participated […]

Manoj Mathew - July 6, 2018 - 152 views

Next year will mark 150 years since the last spike was driven into the final railroad tie connecting the first transcontinental railroad in the U.S. On May 10, 1869, supervisors and crewmembers from three railroad companies gathered a mile above sea level at Promontory Summit in Utah to watch Leland Stanford, the president of Central […]

James Jeude - July 3, 2018 - 125 views

It’s not often that we find artificial intelligence (AI) in the company of a U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, a prestigious all-girls high school and a good joke – which itself sounds like a classic setup to a joke!  But we did. At his daughter’s high school graduation, Chief Justice John Roberts recently opined […]

Amazon’s march toward what we’ve called “Prime Health” continues with the company’s announcement that it will acquire PillPack, the online full-service pharmacy that sorts its customers’ medications by dose; packages them by date, day and time; and mails them to the consumer’s home. With this acquisition, Amazon gains another tool for making healthcare easier, faster, […]

Sripriya Kalyanasundaram - June 27, 2018 - 553 views

For anyone pursuing an MBA just a few years ago, the topic of digital marketing might have consumed a single paragraph in their marketing textbook. The reasoning at the time was, “Why would you need a website, when you have TV?” Fast-forward to today, and digital marketing is an entire specialization within the marketing organization, […]

Makarand Pande - June 25, 2018 - 152 views

Authors’ note: This is the fourth of a five-part series, in which we discuss the ways banks are adopting robotic process automation (RPA). In this installment, we explore what banks should be thinking about when moving from proof of concept-based, siloed, task-level automation to overall operations transformation and how platform vendors are working to support […]

Robert Brown - June 21, 2018 - 160 views

Legend holds that a conman craftsman once made a chessboard for a king.  “Your Highness, I don’t want money for this. Or jewels. All I want is a little rice: a single grain on the first square, two grains on the second, four on the third, eight on the fourth, and so on, and so […]

Monish Mishra - June 13, 2018 - 342 views

From banking to healthcare to retail, many organizations establish remote and branch offices (ROBO) to enter new markets or offer local and convenient services. For many of these enterprises, however, it’s a real challenge to provide IT support to these locations, especially with a centralized IT management team. Because of their small size, many remote […]