The automotive industry is undergoing radical change as vehicle connectivity, autonomous vehicles, electric vehicles and ridesharing remake the transportation landscape. Automakers are racing to innovate and define market leadership with designs driven by purpose, while transforming from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to original service providers (OSPs). As the car transitions into a “computer on wheels” […]

Manish Bahl - November 14, 2018 - 44 views

Are you greater than the sun that shines on everyone: Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and White, the sun does not discriminate. — Sara Ting, “Sun Poem.” You’ve seen the warning on your rearview mirror: “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.” The future seems to be approaching faster than ever before. The rise of […]

Sridhar Bhaskarla - November 12, 2018 - 57 views

As more and more businesses tap into the infinite capacity offered by the cloud, two concerns increasingly require their attention: operations and governance.  This is particularly true with powerful cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, whose agility, speed, elasticity and innovation are made available on easy-to-use models, thus offering tremendous capability, along with […]

Karen McLoughlin - November 7, 2018 - 94 views

To remain vital and relevant to their customers, most businesses today realize that driving diversity and inclusion throughout their organizations is an imperative. The reasons are clear. Diverse and inclusive teams are able to apply a broader range of knowledge and skills. They’re better at recognizing and solving problems that others may overlook. They’re more […]

David Swan - November 5, 2018 - 195 views

I recently attended a session on senior-year education at my son’s school. It focused entirely on the importance of preparing young adults for the next stage in their lives, be it further education or the working world. No argument there. But what struck me was how focused we are on this tiny phase of an […]

Manish Bahl - November 1, 2018 - 150 views

Help Wanted: Data Trash Engineer. Algorithm Bias Auditor. Head of Machine Personality Design. Chief Purpose Planner. Could you envision needing one of these job titles in your organization, or even see yourself filling one of these roles? We can – if not now, then very soon. In fact, in an age when many pundits are […]

Robert H. Brown - October 31, 2018 - 54 views

Whether it’s wildfires in California, a hurricane in Puerto Rico or flooding in North Carolina, Florida and Texas, natural disasters are becoming all too common. And beyond the physical and mortal damage –which is substantial – the lingering trauma of mental stress that follows in the wake of these events is a hidden tragedy no less […]

Archana Joshi - October 25, 2018 - 152 views

The digital economy calls for solutions to be built with digital technologies from the ground up. However, this can result in a double-edged sword: The more a solution relies on digital mechanisms like open APIs, web services, open-source software libraries, cloud and web access over the public Internet, the more vulnerable it is to hacking, […]

John Bertrand - October 23, 2018 - 119 views

Blockchain was the talk of Sibos 2014 in Boston, and the movement toward distributed ledger technology (DLT) was off and running. As Sibos 2018 opens in Sydney, application programming interfaces (API) and open banking will be high on the agenda alongside blockchain, showing once again that the technology continues to gather momentum. Over the last […]

Anbu Muppidathi - October 18, 2018 - 676 views

While there’s plenty of research on integrating security into Agile software methodologies, we’re often left only with “security sandwiches,“ where security is discussed upfront and at the far end of the development process rather than  throughout. Corporate security remains an isolated department at many organizations, one that lives outside the Agile/DevOps/Pod team practice. Developers have […]