Traffic jams in India can be amazing for the variety of vehicles, the cacophony of horns and their sheer scale. Sitting in one a while ago in a hotel car – a BMW 7 series – I was given a demonstration by the driver of the sensor system that detected when the car came too […]
Author Archives: Hydrakos
THERE’S MORE TO BEING GLOBAL THAN HAVING FAR FLUNG OPERATIONS
The National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) will have its 32nd Annual Conference this February. The conference has been rebranded as a Strategic Leadership Forum with the topic centering on Globalization. (Officially – and redundantly – it is: “Managing the Investment Firm in a Global World”). NICSA is not alone in recognizing the need financial […]
BIG DATA BRINGS ITS OWN RISKS
This post originally appeared as a guest blog on the National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) website here. In his recent book, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail – but Some Don’t , Nate Silver looks at the use of Big Data in predictive analytics. Among the many insightful observations is […]
THE POPULAR CHOICE ISN’T NECESSARILY A POOR ONE
It seems almost quaint in the day of Google and Amazon hegemony but there used to be a lapel button around that said “Earth, a subsidiary of Microsoft.” That firm’s quest for world domination has been replaced by a struggle to maintain relevance at least in some product spheres. One area where they are not […]
INNOVATION, FAILURE AND IT GOVERNANCE
The connection between failure and innovation is twofold. On the one hand the inability to innovate can lead to failure as Clayton Christensen pointed out in the Innovator’s Dilemma: “Occasionally however, disruptive technologies emerge: innovations that result in worseproduct performance, at least in the near-term. Ironically, in each of the instances studied in this book, […]
BEWARE SOCIALBOTS
As if there were not enough landmines lurking in the social media environment, a news analysis in yesterday’s New York Times highlighted one of the less obvious but no less dangerous types. Socialbots, as the Times labels them, are programs intended to influence, for good or ill, the impact of social media for the benefit […]