Category Archives: Technology and business

Socializing the enterprise

Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) have been in focus since public social media sites and tools like Facebook and Twitter have gained in popularity and use.  In the last couple of years many tools have been introduced that attempt to mimic the public social media and attempt to streamline the communications among globally spread co-workers… continue… Read More »

EoT – Integrating IoT into the enterprise

In case you haven’t paid close attention, another acronym has been gaining ground on the heels of IoT (Internet of Things).  The new term, EoT (Enterprise of Things), is about IoT’s impact to and integration into the enterprise.  In my previous blog, I wrote about how IoT will dramatically change the way we work and… Read More »

IoT- The last missing piece of the puzzle

It was early 1995 when I first heard of something called Mosaic that one could download to browse a rapidly evolving cluster of web-sites. At that time, the number of web-sites online was somewhere around twenty thousand, but growing rapidly. When I internalized the implications of what I saw, I told my wife that this… Read More »

Let’s talk mobility

The IDC report, similar to Reuters, talk about slowing growth rate of smartphone and tablet sales. This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWS) has confirmed what the sales figures had hinted earlier. If you did not notice, two things are confirmed by what have been the highlights of MWS – 1) the pace of innovation in… Read More »

Hi-Tech labor (Part III of III)

Published in 2005 The first part of this series can be read here and the second part in series can be read here.  In this third and final part I will focus on leadership. While the government incentives can encourage innovation for the simple reason that it directly leads to profits, leadership is a different… Read More »

Break the tigers free (Part II of III)

Published in 2005 This is the second in the three-part series.  To read the first in series click here.  In this article I will focus on encouraging innovation. On my way from hotel to the airport in Shanghai I pulled out the departure card and started filling in the details. I was able to fill it… Read More »

E-governance

Published in 2001 Lately it seems that India is waking up to the concept of e-governance. The irony is that our government has yet to understand what governance is and they are already moving forward with automating whatever we have in the name of governance. When President Clinton visited India, he proudly proclaimed that India… Read More »