Different Industries State of Techno-Health and who is doing it and who isn’t

What is Techno-health? Do different industries have different techno-health? Techno-health refers to different levels of technical maturity and currency or sophistication of their technology? If you are in a segment that doesn’t generally use technology; is it a waste for you to spend more money on technology than the norm for your segment? If you […]

The Enterprise Store – App, API, Mobile

This is a story of 2 successful technologies which presages what I believe is a new important innovation. It started with Apple It all started about 15 years ago Apple introduced the iPhone…. It seems like this anyway. The date was actually in 2007, a mere 6 years ago + a few months. Since […]

Tesla : Case Study : Internet of Things

The Tesla automobile is a big example of the Internet of Things and potential problems and benefits of this idea. (My latest blog update on the tesla is here) IOT properties of the Tesla 1) The Tesla has a persistent always on 3G cell connection to the internet that is paid for by Tesla possibly for life. […]

Software Development today, Cool APIs, Open Source, Scala, Ruby, Chef, Puppet, IntelliJ, Storm, Kafka

What is software development like today? A complaint I heard from a CIO recently was that when talking to the high flying technologists at his firm he said: “they talked in strange names, Kafka this, docker that. Names of open source projects, APIs and languages that make him wonder if these people can program or just […]

Disruptive Forces : Disruptive Megatrends

A number of analyst firms and pundits have declared a list of the megatrends. For examples you can see my blogs: IDC Emerging Trends and Gartner Top Megatrends I have my own list of what I call “disruptive” technologies and trends. This comes from talking to people, observing what companies are doing and what […]