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.
This week - 2021 kicks off with a review of provocative posts on faux transformation, cybersecurity and the future of AI. I break out the picks from diginomica's year in review, take a potshot at tech predictions gurus, and unfurl my whiff of the year for 2020.
This week - your roundup of the final surge of events and acquisitions (we hope). Retailers try to anticipate the vaccine economy with the holidays in full swing, and Oracle becomes the latest to acknowledge flexible work - via their corporate headquarter plans. As always, your whiffs.
Deluged by tech predictions pieces? Worry not, dear reader, Jon and Brian serve your revenge piping hot - via their annual un-predictions. Yes, the tech soothsayers and prognosticators are at it again. But so are we - this time with a few satirical fireballs from Den Howlett mixed in for good measure. Enjoy!
This week - how video meetings trumped messaging in 2020. Salesforce buys Slack - let the Slackforce punditry begin in earnest. Microsoft backtracks on its Microsoft 365 tracking, but the work surveillance debate roils on. As always, your weekly whiffs.
This week - Microsoft 365 provokes a work surveillance debate when new functionality details hit social media. Rumors have Salesforce taking a hard look at Slack - but why? Retailers hit the holiday home stretch, and I'm not the only who blows a gasket in the whiffs section.
This week - AI ethics gets a fresh critique - and the gap between lofty AI talk and project needs is exposed. Also: as we push into holiday season, retailers get one more omni-grade. Enterprise buyers share their COVID-19 era agendas, and the whiffs keep comin'. Yes, Twitter Fleets makes the cut.
This week - retailers push to get ready for a pressurized holiday season - but what's the forecast? B2B shopping starts early for Adobe (buying Workfront) and Coupa (buying LLamasoft). AI risk factors get aired, and the future of work takes a customer-facing twist. As always, your whiffs.
This week - HR tech is murky, but a closer look at the HR Tech show clears the view. Uber and Lyft get good news on election day, but the issues of the gig economy linger. Algorithms-in-practice prove problematic. Your whiffs include leadership satire - and Kubernetes PR poetry.
This week - is the humanity/transparency of the COVID era sparking workplace diversity efforts? Tech-for-good keeps the glass half full; cybersecurity and ransomware concerns threaten to empty it. AI gets a project gut check, and we all buckle up for election week. Plus: whiffs.
This week - retailers buckle up for the holidays, and lay ambitious plans for 2021. Blockchain gets some real world use cases - and critiques. The U.S. files a landmark anti-trust lawsuit against Google. Your whiffs include my personal fave - parrots manipulating Alexa.
This week - has COVID forced a necessary humanization of work? The debate is joined. Remote work versus "back to work" employers continues on - right into the whiffs section. As does Apple's new "5G" iPhone - which comes with a major asterisk, at least in the U.S.
This week - IBM sheds a legacy infrastructure business, and sparks a cloudwashing debate. ERP vendors get called out for re-platforming hype. Hybrid SaaS comes of age. Your whiffs include my "techdrunk" award winner.
