Episode 71: The One About The Buggy Whip Moment
The rise of AI in consulting is akin to the demise of the buggy whip industry in the early 20th century. Just as the automobile rendered buggy whips obsolete, AI…
Episodes that deal with observations of the changing business technology environment.
The rise of AI in consulting is akin to the demise of the buggy whip industry in the early 20th century. Just as the automobile rendered buggy whips obsolete, AI…
AI is taking over the world. It is suddenly and urgently intruding into everything. It can think better than you, faster than you, treats your kids better and is taking…
The knock on consulting is that so much of what goes on is either a bunch of fluff and hand-waving at a stratospheric, impractical level or narrowly focused on mostly…
Four years ago a friend told me that since I had so much to say about business and technology topics that I should go make a podcast. In retrospect I…
Consultants often help clients think about complex problems with few easy answers. There are almost always trade-offs to be made, regulations to follow, expenses to incur all while trying to…
If I were to only read my LinkedIn feed, I’d think every industry is being disrupted all the time, every day… Certainly a search for “future of consulting” yields plenty…
Is it The Great Rebalance? The Great Reshuffle? The Great Resignation? The Great Discontent? To read about it, companies are really struggling to find workers these days. Clearly there aren’t…
Consulting may be an old profession (the second oldest?) but no one can argue that it hasn’t undergone tremendous change over the past 20 years. It makes sense, after all.…
Well it looks like things are getting back to normal. Everyone should just go back to doing things like they did prior to Covid. All will be as it was……
Welp. Glad this year’s over. Perfect time to pour a drink, to be honest. It’s also a perfect time for the third annual Christmas episode of the Consultants Saying Things…
I’m tired of Covid. How bout you? Unfortunately, it probably doesn’t matter if we’re tired of it or not. We’ve all been talking quite a lot about Covid impacts. We’ve…
Check your endpoint. It’s probably not as safe from cyberthreats as you think. And Covid made it worse… The cybersecurity landscape has been dicey for years. In just the past…
The ongoing global pandemic has profoundly impacted our clients and the way we work. It has also forced us to make major changes to our daily routines and behaviors. Given…
Yes the global pandemic has altered almost everything about how we work. But it has also dramatically impacted our clients and their businesses. It can be easy to first consider…
The Coronavirus has had dramatic impact on our world. Everything from how we eat to how we learn has changed. The way we work has also changed. Even though Consultants…
You’re a consultant. You’ve been doing your thing. Suddenly Big 4 Firms and various magazines and LinkedIn rivals tell you you’ve been doing it ALL WRONG! Consulting 1.0? No no…
Let’s be honest, if you aren’t digitizing right now, you’re probably platform modernizing. In fact, Platform Modernization is a key part of all 10 of CIO Magazine’s top issues for…
Have you ever been involved in a discussion on Agile and thought to yourself, “What a bunch of BS” ? That was the genesis of our latest episode. And let…
Integration is more than just putting Tech A together with Tech B via an API. Integration goes to the heart of how things work together: people, process and THEN technology.…
The future of customer experience involves more efficient and targeted sales enabled by technology while high-value interactions will still need human expertise. Here are 10 things organizations must do to…