Digital Transformation Series, Article 3 – Skills Gap: Creative vs Rote Intelligence

I find that most companies have access to the same toolsets in the marketplace and many of them have mostly identical technology ecosystems.  Why will one thrive while the other struggles? In a prior post, I said a digital transformation culture is needed to succeed for most organizations.  What if that culture exists, management is …
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Digital Transformation Series, Article 2 – Social Acceptance & Living Digital

When most people in technology hear the term “Social Acceptance”, they immediately equate it to the traditional “User Acceptance”.   It sounds like a modernization of the term. We have social networks, internal team collaboration platforms, and everything is supposed to be “social” nowadays.  But social acceptance has a unique meaning for digital transformation. User-Focused? The …
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Digital Transformation Series, Article 1 – Origins

History has shown a pattern of wars where new technologies are introduced to the battlefield only to be implemented with outdated tactics and strategies leading to untold horrors. (World War I for example.) While we in technology usually do not have to face such fundamental life and death consequences such as a war, we do …
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