This week - the Vaccine Economy means Vaccine Passports. How will tech companies navigate? Microsoft scores a big HoloLens win, and ERP gets futuristic. Companies are overconfident in AI, while the ethics debate roils on. Your whiffs include epic work from home fails, and April Fools like me.
This week - the return-to-workers face off against hybrid work advocates. Amazon faces the PR heat and takes on all comers. Independent analysts find their advocate, and cloud ERP benefits get deconstructed. Your whiffs include 27 buzzwords that sink bios.
This week - pulling COVID-19 digital lessons from the education sector - but will they stick? Plus: the enterprise buyer one-throat-to-choke debate heats up again. Uber must give UK drivers "worker" status, and tech companies' "diversity theater" gets called out. In the whiffs section, I backtrack on NFTs.
This week - the future of remote work gets clearer, but what do we do about the fractured employee experience? Tips for dealing with cloud vendors get aired as hyperscalers weigh in. Digital passports, vaccines, blockchain, and... me? I think a whiff is in order.
This week - Retailers get another omni-channel gut check in the Vaccine Economy, and Microsoft Exchange suffers a concerning breach. Google's AI firings raise ethical AI scrutiny, and diginomica kicks off our International Women's Day coverage. As always, your whiffs.
This week - the future of work-from-anywhere faces off against HR compliance and worker surveillance. Will (human) customer service reps make a comeback? And: a founding member of the diginomica team says "So long." Your whiffs include the 5G charade, and some very smart badgers.
This week - Have Millennials and Gen-Z exposed a broken system of work? And is the 9 to 5 job a permanent casualty of work-from-anywhere? Your whiffs include snarky shots at Microsoft Teams, Gartner's MQ, and reporters Zooming from bed.
This week - remote work changes take on new permanence as more big employers change policies. AI skills gaps are debated, and supply chain weaknesses are evaluated. Your whiffs include a Zoom fail you might not have seen.
This week - AI in retail gets realistic; Black History Month brings needed scrutiny to diversity in tech. COVID-19's data challenges get a tech boost, and Google makes enterprise moves. Your whiffs include Amazon's (lack of) employee experience, and my no-blockchain show rule.
This week - Workday acquires for employee engagement; SAP acquires for process mining (and RISE). Consumer tech intrudes on our enterprise headlines, with GameStop trading disrupting the status quo, and Apple and Facebook disrupting each other over ad tech. As always, your whiffs.
This week - diginomica's NRF roundup has retailers grappling with new consumer behaviors - and supply chain transformations. Also: virtual events get an unflinching review - and a challenge for 2021. Your whiffs include me blowing a gasket on some absurd AI assertions.
This week - retailers passed the omni-channel holiday stress test, but are they ready for what's next? We kick off our NRF retail coverage. Meanwhile, agile ERP gets scrutinized, and customer data terminology sparks a CX debate. Your whiffs include lost-bitcoin-angst, and an early candidate for satirical tech tweet of the year.
This week - as the vaccine economy races towards us, are digital leaders ready? Retail's big show is here, but is hyper-personalization a myth? Also: cybersecurity looms large as the SolarWinds analysis continues. Your whiffs include freemium ankle-biters, and T-shaped marketing professionals.
