beyond the join of people, products & platforms
The article by Marc Andreessen in Founders Tribune highlights Steve Jobs’ transformative impact on the technology sector, elevating product quality and customer experience. It contrasts past mediocrity with the current standards set by the iPhone. Key takeaways include prioritizing product excellence and adopting a demanding leadership style to reject mediocrity.
In the world of technology, scarcity is often seen as a barrier. But for those who embrace it, scarcity can become a catalyst for creativity, efficiency, and breakthrough innovation. This is the story of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has not only overcome the constraints imposed by U.S. trade restrictions but has also emerged as a global leader in AI development. Their journey offers a masterclass in thriving under scarcity – a lesson that resonates far beyond the tech industry.
One of the elements which is ground-breaking in relation to OpenAI and #Microsoft working together is that the vision is to deliver ‘foundational AI’ capability as a platform for others to commercialise, productise and also industrialise. In my mind, this is the key element here. This is taking a small team, iterative science and innovation, scaling this and through … Continue reading Platform approach to AI
Here is one of the best; and simplest; articulations of the levers and elements which drive the core of business transformation and how the keystone for traditional businesses looking to reimagine themselves for the digital/cognitive world can be the move to cloud. 38 minutes which will leave you with a series of elements to focus … Continue reading Economies of Speed
Some weekend reads for those in the world of digital, technology, organisational transformation and beyond. Having worked with 1000s of entrepreneurs, start-ups and scale-ups during my career at AOL, Yahoo!, News Corp and IAG (Insurance Australia Group), it was interesting this week to synthesis my experiences over these years into 3 tips for those just … Continue reading Weekend Reads: 3 Tips, Circles of Innovation & Digital Nations
The content draws parallels between outdoor trekking and business transformation, emphasizing the importance of adaptability and resilience in organizational planning for the future. It critiques the traditional 3 horizon model, noting its focus on incremental innovation and its limited scope for holistic transformation. Instead, it advocates for using the terrain metaphor—foothills, ridges, and ranges—to conceptualize the stages of strategic development. Foothills represent the foundational journey, ridges signify testing adaptability amidst challenges, and ranges embody the long-term vision for growth and agility. Successful organizations focus on these continuous cycles to remain customer-centric and data-driven, overcoming obstacles along the way.
Marc Andreessen wrote his article, Why Software is Eating the World, in 2011. Within it were the signals for boards, leaders, and businesses of the world we are in today. This week a number of articles/podcasts have converged in my mind and referenced back to 10 years ago, when, Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ his … Continue reading Software has eaten your world
Great to spend time with Oscar Chavez discussing #innovation, digital #mindset and the importance unleashing/releasing the potential of your people, data, processes, platforms and technologies.
With the world in lockdown and stepping into the dual world of; dealing with the COVID19 outbreak and also trying work out the ‘next normal’; there has been a lot of uncertainty, anxiety and also, which is good to see, a large degree of thought around the future being better for humankind. This extends to … Continue reading Best reads: May 2020
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