After reading Richard’s blog about large balloons in India, I felt the need to explore this topic a little further. A few years back I was on a business trip to Bangalore, and one night while in my hotel room reading the paper copy of the Bangalore times (a free paper left in my hotel…
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On my first trip to India I stayed right across from the gateway of India. This is a tourist area, especially popular for the locals, and some international travelers. From my hotel window, I could see street vendors with these really big balloons. They were probably 6 feet in length. Later that day I decided…
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‘Giants of retail struggle with online demand’ Transaction Tracking – Costco could face nearly $11 million in losses after its website malfunctioned on Thanksgiving, according to data analyzed by retail website Love the Sales. The wholesale giant’s website displayed a message that read, “Intermittent slow load and transaction times,” starting late Wednesday, and the company…
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Blockchain – The recent rise and fall of Bitcoin (slight uptick recently), should give you pause for thought and help you understand where the real potential might be. While the future potential of secure digital payments through crypto currency remains to be seen, the focus should be on building blockchain based platforms and marketplaces. The…
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Digital Transformation – More than two years have passed since India’s demonetization policy — which removed high denomination banknotes from the economy — became a reality. That bold move was met with a mix of support, confusion, and criticism. In an analysis we wrote in November 2017, we argued that demonetization was only part of…
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Cloud computing clearly offers some very attractive benefits for significant elements of an enterprises business. Many companies have made the move (generally in-part) to the public cloud; Moving major parts of their application stack to Amazon, Microsoft and others, reducing their in-house data centers, moving from a mainly capital expense to a mainly operation expense…
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