Introduction Technology innovation continually challenges the status quo and disrupt how businesses engage with customers, employees, and partners. No longer relegated to the IT department, technology strategies and supporting initiatives are regarded today as mission-critical to the overall business success. Across all sectors and geographies, digital technology is reshaping current Read more…
Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) moves from the Star War type of fictional reality to full acceptance as a valuable success enabling tool among leading private and public sector enterprises globally. At its core, AI refers to an environment and settings where a device mimics human minds’ cognitive functions. These cerebral Read more…
Introduction The successful proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) within cloud environments has driven rapid acceptance of the innovative new computing paradigm – Edge Computing. Edge computing is a means of optimizing organizational cloud computing by carrying out processing near the source of the data at the edge of Read more…
Introduction Today, the velocity of Information generated within the private and public-sectors is unparalleled and directly challenging the ability for successful content and records handling with traditional business and technology strategies. We are now all witnesses to a definitive paradigm shift as business models, and digital technology conventions and expectations Read more…
Introduction Kubernetes (or k8s, or “Kube” ) is an innovative portable and extensible open-source system for the effective deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications originally designed by Google and currently maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The approach provides Platform as a Service (PaaS) / Containers as a Service Read more…
Introduction Blockchain technology is an innovative peer-to-peer transaction asset management system consisting of a tamper-proof database of transactions consistent across a large number of nodes, without an intermediary. Assets can be tangible or intangible such as intellectual property. At its center, a blockchain is a record of transactions with each computer node in Read more…
Introduction Today, it is a reality that Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Cognitive Technologies can successfully emulate and supplement the power and processing of the human brain. This is a significant and valuable development for both the private and public sectors which have new and innovative opportunities to leverage and exploit Read more…
Introduction Over the last ten years, we have witnessed, significant growth in the number of smart devices, wireless products, and embedded sensors connected and integrated with commercial and organizational networks supporting the enhanced provision of real-time services to the B2B and B2C marketplaces. Current industry trends suggest a continual high-velocity Read more…
Introduction The current digital economy is a true testimony of the success of companies that have embraced critical thinking as a mission-critical activity. For example, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, and others continually collapse their product development time-frames, with critical thinking, and thus significantly upending competition while positively impacting revenue Read more…
This article is one of a series of Knowledge Compass presentations that highlight insightful and pointed quotations of influential authors, thinkers, philosophers, and others that have influenced culture, business, and world events over the years in both modern and ancient times. A Quotation is the repetition of someone else’s statement Read more…