I recently had the chance to participate in a panel discussion in hosted by the Financial Times on technology and innovation in Canada. Dubbed as the FT Global Investment Series: Focus on Canada, my fellow panelists included: Natan Aronshtam, Partner, Global Managing Director – R&D and Government Incentives, Deloitte & Touche LLP Kenny Rosenblatt, Co-founder [...]
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned the Digital Business and how the really successful organizations are the ones that seem to have “a digital mindset,” an instinct for how to creatively use technology to change their business, rather than just using IT as a minimum standard for how to efficiently run the enterprise. [...]
Code.org, a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education, recently did a high-profile short film (see below) with digital heroes like Gates, Zuckerberg and Dorsey talking about programming as the new “superpower” and how learning to write code can change lives for the better. I truly sympathize with code.org’s ambition, and watching the movie [...]
2012 has been a very exciting time to be in the IT industry. The much talked about four mega tech trends of Cloud, BigData, Social Computing and Mobility have started to converge and their combined impact is having a real transformational impact in the way that many of our customers are running their businesses. It [...]
One of the reasons I enjoy my role in Avanade is because I get to have discussions with major customers around disruptive technology shifts (such as cloud) and how they will make a difference to their business and IT strategies. However, it is quite rare for a customer to deal with these trends in isolation. [...]
When Steve Ballmer took the stage in March 2010 at University of Washington to make a very public commitment that Microsoft was “all in” when it comes to cloud computing, he marshaled 70% of his global workforce behind this commitment. Around the same time, Microsoft made a similarly huge bet on mobility – overhauling [...]
In my last blog post, I said that we’re living and working in an era of transformation. Technologies like mobility and enterprise collaboration are changing the way businesses operate. At Avanade, we actively embrace these trends– both to make sure we are delivering cutting-edge capabilities to our employees and helping our customers drive innovation and [...]
September not only marks the beginning of changing seasons, but it also is the start to Avanade’s fiscal year. At 13, Avanade is now a teenager – and as those of you with teenage children can attest, it promises to be a fun, potentially volatile, rewarding and challenging experience all at once! In FY12, [...]
We’re living and working in an era of transformation. The way most people work has changed significantly from how we worked a few years ago. Capabilities like mobility and enterprise collaboration are responsible for changing how, where and when employees work, impacting lines of business, HR and IT alike. In fact, our own research on [...]
One of the defining trends in the evolution of computing has been the increasing diffusion of platform and control. Today, we have moved from a single mainframe tended by a small team of specialist administrators through distributed computing to the explosion of corporate/divisional Windows and Linux servers. This trend has taken a further leap forward in recent [...]
