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Observability of AI?
It’s always useful to listen to the Risky Business podcast for their insights into the latest cyber issue du jour but this week’s podcast had an interesting discussion on the observability of artificial intelligence triggered by Elon Musk’s vow to “open-source” Twitter’s algorithms to promote transparency and free speech. This discussion starts at the 19:40
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From JIT to Just in Case
“The global economy assumed that just in time supply chains would continue to operate” Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos. Supply chain management has become much more challenging as pandemics, wars, weather events and shipping disasters have impacted supply chains around the world. In this informative podcast interview, Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos, explains that many
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Protect your ERP System!
“The US Department of Homeland Security has issued multiple warnings against cyberattacks targeting ERP systems.” (from the McKinsey article “Seven steps to help protect your ERP system against cyberattacks” published March 24, 2022). McKinsey have published a timely article on the importance of hardening ERP systems against cyber-attack. The article points out that ERP systems
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Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack
The linked Risky Business podcast – “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face” – features an interview with Michael Montoya, the CISO of Equinix. In September 2020, Equinix was subjected to a significant ransomware cyber-attack. As the interviewer, Patrick Gray notes: it’s extremely rare for CISOs to talk about events like
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Perspectives on AI
I’m currently reading “The Age of AI: And Our Human Future” by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher – an impressive group of authors to say the least. The book provides some very thoughtful and well-informed analysis on the potential impacts of Artificial Intelligence on human society and our future across multiple dimensions and
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ICT Transformation Survey
McKinsey’s latest IT survey has confirmed that the gap between top performing IT organisations and others has increased over the last 12 months. 73% of the top performers “now say that their most senior tech leaders (the chief information officer or chief technology officer) are highly involved in shaping the company-wide strategy and agenda” versus
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Coinbase Innovation Story
In this episode of “How I Built This”, Guy Raz interviews Brian Armstrong, co-founder of Coinbase, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges with over 7 million users and 2,700 employees. Regardless of how you feel about cryptocurrencies, this is a fascinating story on innovation in the payments’ arena.
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Five Essential Attributes
iHelm has published an insightful article on the importance of leadership capability in agile organisations as well as five essential attributes which cover culture, business process, operations, governance and performance measurement. The article is based on research undertaken by iHelm across multiple industries and geographic regions.
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The Voltage Effect
Excellent interview with John List from Guy Kawasaki’s series on Remarkable People. John is a behavioral economist and the author of the just published “The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale”. This podcast has some very useful insights on organisational economics and how to scale successfully.
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Well-Architected Framework
While user design and functionality are obviously important, there is often insufficient attention given to non-functional considerations. Although the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been developed specifically for workloads running in the cloud, its six pillars are also relevant to non-cloud environments and should be considered on all ICT projects: Operational Excellence Security Reliability Performance Efficiency
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Know Your (Cyber) Enemy!
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” Sun Tzu. Although Sun Tzu
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6 Secrets of Great Timing
In this Masters of Scale podcast with Reid Hoffman, the iconoclastic Marc Andreessen shares his perspective on the 6 secrets of timing innovation successfully: Being too early can be as bad as being too late –the General Magic documentary is a great illustration of this. Ecosystem readiness is critical. History doesn’t always repeat itself –
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Innovation Genome Project
Pre-Covid, I participated in a one-week study tour of Silicon Valley and met with over 30 organisations ranging from start-ups to large tech companies. Without doubt, the most engaging and informative presentation was by Bill O’Connor at The Vault in San Francisco. In the Innovation Genome project, Bill identified the common elements from the top
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