3 Stages of a Successful Digital Transformation
Most digital transformations fail. Various studies from academics, consultants, and analysts indicate that the rate of digital transformations failing to meet their original objectives ranges from 70% to 95%, with an average at 87.5%. Yet, digital transformation has been at the top of corporate agendas for at least a decade and shows no sign of slowing down. […]
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My son Joshua is a student at Texas A&M and is also in the NROTC program. He is in Norfolk, VA for his summer cruise on a fast attack submarine. He visited the Navy Exchange and snapped this picture for me. Is it on display because it is so old they did not want to […]
Solar Crypto Mining
Texas Grid Operators are expected to extend a one-week request for conservation on the part of utility consumers. Unexpected heat, both temperature and duration, have pressed the electrical grid to its limits. Homeowners have been asked to refrain from high energy consumption activities during the afternoon hours. This might seem like a strange request, but […]
Apply Science
“It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It doesn’t make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with the experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” Richard Fynman
When Your Business Needs a Second Growth Engine
In a series of forums we held recently with chief executives of large companies around the world, we uncovered a preoccupation with obsolescence and renewal. When we surveyed them, 65% of the CEOs predicted that in five to seven years their firms’ main competitors would be different from their main competitors today, and 63% said that new […]
Bitcoin Mining at Home
I have always been interested in computer hardware and processing capability. Especially the concept of collaborative computing to solve problems. For many years I participated in a Search for Extra Terrestrial (SETI) collaborative computing effort where individual users would download work units, process on their computer, and then upload and be combined with others. Crypto […]
Women in Engineering Day
June 23rd marks International Women in Engineering Day. Did you know that since 1982, women have earned almost 10 million more college degrees than men? But even though women are earning more degrees, a 2018 survey revealed that only 15% of engineers are women. Celebrating women’s achievements in a traditionally man-dominated field reminds all of […]
Developing a Digital Mindset
When Thierry Breton took over as CEO of the French IT services company Atos, in 2008, he knew that a massive and immediate digital transformation was necessary. Annual revenue had increased nearly 6% during the Great Recession, to $6.2 billion, but Atos wasn’t growing as fast as its competitors were. The company suffered from siloed business and […]
CryptoMining
After quite bit of research, I decided to invest in a crypto mining machine. The concept of collaborative computing has alsways been a source of fascination for me, beginning with the SETI program many years ago. The first part of my project was to purchase a machine, then gain familiarity of the node functions, and […]
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Workplace are all down. Mobile providers are inundated with support calls becuse almost everything everyone does with their phones is not acessesible. DNS errors are to blame.