This week - retailers extract lessons from the (omni) holiday reckoning. The future of work irrevocably distributed, and low-code (hype) is surging into 2022. Your whiffs include: the worst of CE revisited, and hacked Teslas doing the Rick Roll.
This week - connected healthcare faces its biggest challenge: consumer trust. Supply chains pick up where we left off (a mess), and CES pulls off their big event (somehow). But was it revolutionary? I get called out on that one. Plus: Norton's crypto-mining debacle.
This week - Salesforce issues an on-the-ground safety playbook (and functionality), but will it be enough? Amazon seems to have avoided the holiday supply chain crunch, but how? AWS remains in the spotlight, but exploits and security hacks also grab headlines. Plus: your whiffs.
The tech soothsayers, prognosticators, and growth ninjas are at it again - but so are we. If you're fed up with vacuous tech predictions, Jon and Brian serve your revenge piping hot, via the ultimate NFT: the annual un-predictions.
This week - AWS re:Invent gets a critical review as the keynotes shuffle. As Omicron raises new pandemic questions, Google pushes back return-to-office. Will hybrid events gain steam? Your whiffs get meta, and crypto gets mutable.
This week - Zoom's growth slows, but what does it mean? Black Friday's online sales underwhelm, but for retailers, it's far from over. Return-to-office hits an Omicron variant snag, and another debate. Your whiffs include: the divisive phenomenon of robots reading AI poetry.
This week - personalization is an commerce asset, but are retailers ready? The FBI's email servers get hacked, and the motivations are revealed. Another batch of hybrid events get reviewed. In the whiffs, the tech predictions game is already wearing thin.
This week - CFOs face the modernization pressure, and climate tech gets serious. McDonalds doubles down on AI, and multi-cloud has its day. Facebook does an about face on facial recognition, but is it a whiff? If so, it has company.
This week - don't cancel the holidays just yet - retailers press on. But will supply chains hold? A customer success debate froths up, and spills to other blogs. UK's test and trace gets a rough review, and, you guessed it, Facebook's Meta antics take over the whiffs section.
This week - American Express comes out with a flexible work policy of note, but employers still struggle with talent and diversity issues. AI faces issues of scale, and generates plenty of whiffs along the way. Readers are only too glad to help with Facebook's renaming.
This week - does enterprise architecture need an overhaul? Will supply chain woes sink retailers' holiday hopes? AI remains dangerous, but not for the reasons we think. Buzzword bingo gets a biometric blockchain, and in the whiffs, I call out some linkbait.
This week - CMWorld provokes a content and attention debate, while the virtual event binge rolls on. Walmart and Home Depot team up for the last mile, and Zoom regroups. We can now add Twitch as a contender for "worst data breach of the year."
This week - HR leaders grapple with the surge of AI tech. Retailers get a pre-holiday gut check, starting with Bed, Bath & Beyond. A standout enterprise blogging week gives me plenty to sort, from the dangers of silos to the democratization of tech buyers. Neiman Marcus gets a breach - and a whiff.
