A Critical (and Easy to Discover) Element of Customer Understanding

Let me start this post with one of my mantras:  The most important elements of ideal customer profiles are not the basic firmographic descriptors of the company.   The most important elements are those that capture motivations and behavioral aspects of the business you are targeting. And, in tech, there may be nothing more important than […]

Looking Both Ways for Transportation Trends

Our team recently completed and published the latest Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems. This was my fifth year as one of the authors of this research and I thought it would be interesting to reflect on a few of the biggest changes to the market over the last few years. The first significant change […]

Generative AI Is Not as Smart as People Think. But Neither Are We.

Barely a word can be written about the joy (or terror, depending on the point of view) of getting seemingly thoughtful and intelligent responses from a chat engine powered by generative AI before a chiding response appears from an AI expert. “It’s just a parlor trick / next word predictor / predictive algorithm”. True. But the […]

Accelerating Value : The Platform Revolution!

Accelerating Value : The Platform Revolution! Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies (IOCS) conference – Theme for the 2023 series has officially launched!! Your business is demanding more value, reliability and agility from its technology investments. But a rapidly changing macroeconomic and geopolitical climate, a complex and diverse technology ecosystem and increasingly urgent talent shortages […]

Rethinking digital identity in a post pandemic world

Speaking at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Trust:Live 2023, Niall McCann, Policy Consultant, Legal Identity, UN Development Programme, discusses the legal rights to identity in the digital space and what difficulties governments are facing when managing digital ID. Source: Fintech News

$25trn wiped off global stock markets in 2022

The market capitalisation of global stock markets declined by 20% in 2022 while value of traded stocks fell by 10% according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE). Source: Fintech News