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May 25, 2015 3:15 PM
Thank you @Hector Romano@Andy Thompson. Please recommend my topic if you can!
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Never really thought we'd get there but reading the article you wonder if this may not be the truth... May you live in interesting times. I think we are....
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I've recently come to believe that we're at a watershed moment in technology as it's applied to business. The aging, creaky model of centralized IT departments has been increasingly challenged by w...
Farid Mheir's insight:
More reading about the new role of the CIOs. Also read about Disrupt IT, a book about the subject or a previous blog post
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
April 14, 2015 10:47 AM
It is getting more and more obvious that centralized IT is not the model of the future...
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A year ago I published the book Disrupt IT in which I defined a new model for IT that meets the needs of the digital business. The book also described seven principles that provide CIOs and Boards ...
Farid Mheir's insight:
Sounds like a good read for new CIOs, and those in position today.
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Automakers are eager to test their robot cars in the $6.5 million driverless city being built by the University of Michigan.
Farid Mheir's insight:
driverless cars will soon be very popular and require completely news ways to tests the systems before they are deemed road worthy. Nice chart that shows the projected number of fully and partially autonomous cars we should expect to see on roads. Let's come back to it in a few years to see if reality will line up to this chart or blow past it...
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Key areas of focus for the early months of a CIO’s tenure should be:
Farid Mheir's insight:
This pretty much spell "digital transformation" for a new CIO
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Some of the talent and tools won’t necessarily be found in-house. Here’s how to create a sustainable strategy for sourcing the right people and products. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I love this as it makes clear why digital is different and in what respects.
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Authority on digital governance Lisa Welchman opened up to CIO Insight on how digital governance provides the guidance leaders need to spark positive change.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting insights on digital changes in organizations.
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You don’t want to waste your time and money building a product no one will want to use or pay for. So, first get out of the building and talk to your customers. But there’s a world of difference between talk and action. What your customers say, and what they eventually do. Talking, and putting [...]
Farid Mheir's insight:
I am a HUGE fan of the minimum viable product concept as I find it applies to everything. It helps focus the mind. I recommend it everywhere I can.
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SELF-DRIVING CARS WOULD TAKE 20 YEARS TO REPLACE REGULAR CARS
Farid Mheir's insight:
I post so you can watch the video of the self-driving tesla S. Reminds me of a saying they taught us in enterprise architecture class: when given a chance, always bet on technology because it matures much faster than anything else.
Lewis J. Perelman's curator insight,
March 27, 2015 3:39 PM
The headline assumes most people would be willing to have driving outlawed. That seems very unlikely.
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While 80 percent of the respondents consider digital manufacturing and design to be a critical driver of competitiveness, only 13 percent rate their organizations’ digital capability as “high” (exhibit). And even among those leaders, many believe that their firms and their industries currently lack necessary standards, data-sharing, and cybersecurity capabilities.
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Digital marketing operations are characterized by complex, sprawling
Farid Mheir's insight:
great checklist for performing marketing audits and assessments
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From
medium
But that prospect isn’t as scary as it sounds
Farid Mheir's insight:
Raises an important question as we give more and more autonomy to machines: cars, taxis, delivery vehicles, trains, etc.
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Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility vehicle (SUV), or it could swerve to the right and hit a Mini Cooper. If you were programming the car to minimize harm to others--a sensible goal--which way would you instruct it go in this scenario?
Farid Mheir's insight:
Raises an important question as we give more and more autonomy to machines: cars, taxis, delivery vehicles, trains, etc.
André Bélanger's comment,
March 25, 2015 2:53 PM
Réflexion fondamentale. Baillargeon avait écrit une chronique intéressante à ce sujet dans le Voir: http://voir.ca/chroniques/prise-de-tete/2014/02/12/google-deepmind-et-nous/
Daniel Xing's curator insight,
March 27, 2015 7:42 AM
An interesting discussion about the safety of autonomous car. Human will be hesitate to make a decision and then accident happen, but as for a machine or inner program, it quite fairly perform a random decision. Another problem is, if car can be programmed as a computer, hacker will play more significant role because the car only perform as programmed. Therefore, both self-driving system and security system are important.
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Vinod Khosla, my boss at Khosla Ventures, has stated that, 'If you want to be a doctor in the future, you’re better off learning math and statistics than biology and chemistry,'" he added.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Catchy statement. Well worth listening to the 30min interview for more insights.
André Bélanger's comment,
March 25, 2015 2:55 PM
I happen to have read a book about this issue: The end of lawyers http://www.amazon.com/The-End-Lawyers-Rethinking-services/dp/0199593612
Farid Mheir's comment,
March 26, 2015 8:54 AM
Thank you @André Bélanger and @Russell R. Roberts, Jr. for your additional insights!
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From
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Google has long declared itself an unconventional company. But its division that takes on long-term, risky projects, Google[x], makes the rest of the company look pretty staid. Now led by Astro Teller (born Eric before he adopted a first name that really suited him), Google[x] deliberately takes on challenges that seem to fit more comfortably in the pages of pulp science fiction than on the balance sheet of a public company. Its first project was the self-driving car, and subsequent ones include Google Glass, the smart contact lens, the Google Brain neural network, the Loon Project that delivers Internet service via balloon, and a project that hopes to release nanoparticles in the bloodstream to detect early disease.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great read for anyone interested in innovation within an organization. In particular, I found the 10000 things list reference to be quite unique and quite powerful.
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it seems Autopilot will be disabled when you're not doing freeway driving, which is by far the easiest aspect of autonomous vehicle activity. Musk did confirm that the Autopilot mode would be "technically capable of driving from parking lot to parking lot." The car will also be allowed to drive itself when you summon it, and when you're parking it in your garage.
Farid Mheir's insight:
A great review of the self-driving car solutions, with links to other articles on the subject.
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After 10 years out of the spotlight, the former White House intern took the stage to call for an end cyberbullying.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Go past the first few minutes, the talk picks up real good as soon as she starts to speak about cyber-bulling and raises grave concerns about online privacy and the commercialization of stories such as hers.
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From
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Cambridge Consultants, a product development group based in the U.K., is showing off a connected shopping cart that can tell a retailer where you are in a store within three feet. The smart carts are equipped with Bluetooth radios and sensors to track the cart’s location so store owners can offer promotions and eliminate checkout…
Farid Mheir's insight:
Not everyone has a mobile phone when they shop groceries but everyone pushes a cart. So having a connected cart - especially if it costs only 7.60$ to retrofit - makes perfect sense, no?
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From
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Based on the performance of countries on the index during the years 2008 to 2013, we assigned them to one of four trajectory zones: Stand Out, Stall Out, Break Out, and Watch Out.
CIM Academy's curator insight,
March 4, 2015 5:41 AM
A great article showing how the digital economy is developing. 
Ed Crowley's curator insight,
March 4, 2015 4:09 PM
I find the 'stall out countries' most interesting. 
Emmanuel ANIQUE's curator insight,
March 10, 2015 6:12 PM
#digital evolution index, where is your country?
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Great concept for the growing number of freelance workers and small businesses. Low cost office workspace rented by the hour. A friend booked a small space for a 4 person workshop yesterday in Montreal Balfour location. Small location, easy to access, clean with a white board and furniture, even a nespresso machine. You get there, "checkin" using the breather app, get a code to unlock the door and there you go. At 15$ an hour, unbeatable...
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Our latest survey of business and IT executives finds that IT performance increases across the board when CIOs are involved in shaping business strategy. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Full of data that shows how different the perspective is on the IT function. CIOs believe they should cut cost and run servers, when in fact non-IT executives expect IT to deliver data and analytics, even if it means growing their budget. Must read for anyone in IT.
William Henderson's curator insight,
February 27, 2015 9:00 AM
This article dovetails nicely with my last several posts concerning the transformation of the IT department. The majority of the article deals with the results of a McKinsey survey. To me here are two of the most important statements that summarize the survey:
*IT performance increases across the board when CIOs are involved in shaping business strategy. *Few executives say their IT leaders are closely involved in helping shape the strategic agenda, and confidence in IT’s ability to support growth and other business goals is waning.
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Inspired by global best practices, stimulated by an ongoing dialog with Montréalers, the Smart and Digital City Office is working in nine key areas to make Montréal a world renowned leader among smart and digital cities by 2017.
Farid Mheir's insight:
I am proud to have helped shape the strategy with the Digital City Office. Great team, great vision.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
February 24, 2015 3:14 PM
Smart! I haven't read the 50 pages of the strategy yet, but the first good news is that there is a digital strategy!
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Farid Mheir's insight:
I wrote about them in the past http://sco.lt/7FRff7 and I realize now that they are expanding their service offers into many other fields, including fitness which makes the whole solution way more personalized. Companies should take notice as they try to get more and more personal with their customers.
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Our 2015 Technology Vision provides vital signposts to the tech developments we believe will have the greatest impact on business over the next three to five years.
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