I really don't read or perceive that there has been declared the official winner of the race for CLOUD computing: one of three things that the technical sector has decided is the cool things we need:
IofT: Internet of things or intelligence of things?
The best way I would be able to explain to a non-layperson what this acronym means is that you can control things designed to have enhanced technical capabilities. I would use General Motors as a prime example. In my view, opinion and limited observation. I don't have to work there, all I have to do is pick up on the consistency of being on message flowing neighborly along that appeals to the largest percentage of people.
Again, I've never worked for GM or read any prospectus or proposal on how they were going to prove that they were savable after a big government bail out.
I saw it before, just as a user of products, a major accounts rep, a vendor and a buyer perspective: Xerox. Anne Mulcahey (need to check spelling) put some building blocks in place on how they were going to rebuild a once great company from the basement of the downward steps to rock bottom to recovery and rethinking innovation and deciding to self-consciously or corporate self-examination: what would they be known for?
So a lot of these almost washed up companies are having an injection of innovation or continued creation of a historical identity.
Most would say that Xerox discovered xerography and became this really big company, until it delved out significant intelligence to Apple and Adobe. Well yes, that is correct.
My guess would be how Xerox, through stringent quality control, strove to replace dust pollutant of toner dust, toxic for our water systems and ecosystems. They made new toner that was sustainable, really smartly reusing natural resources that does not upset the universe's eco-structure from emitting toxins.
Safe to say, Xerox is a prime example of something highly identifiable can decoy from staying static and holding true to being innovative.
The best companies in the world, in my opinion are not bricks and motor, factory, industry, on the "try" at the end - see that? Or maybe I'm psychic and see the pattern emerging. How?
From watching the numbers. Looking for patterns. That information is out there and it is free. When it goes to the cloud, someone is going to make heaps of money storing their customer's information.
AI: Artificial intelligence.
I guess somewhere, somehow, someone decided that it was hip or cool to include "intelligence" to create an acronym that rings with distinction, like a battle cry to the trod on economic forces blow over.
Robots have been around for decades. I haven't fact check, however, I'm going to say they started surfacing when more and more companies starting realizing, by looking at numbers with a strong focus on profit, they had to try to get rid of people, which is the highest expense .... yet few would survive without its people.
Has anyone written about a theme of companies who become so bloated with their own ego and self-importance, that complacency would never reside. Quickly replaced with value, rate of return, key performance indicators.
Disruption.
Is when someone comes up with an idea that totally transforms the way we do or think of things. Think of the smart phone as a disruption to mobility telecommunications.
Taking something that we use every single day, is as familiar to us as our television or automobile: the telephone. As it evolved from a communications device into a hand held computer that uses wireless or the internet in order to transmit.
A telegram is something we consider as old, war era communications of great importance has now been developed into something immediate. Every day is special because we can communicate with others, convey our thoughts or feelings by the click of fingers or twiddle of thumbs.
What else is out there that hasn't been thought up yet or uncovered a need for? The first things to look at are those every day indispensable items we use and then make them better, causing a ripple effect that requires traditional means to update their technology or capabilities or they will be stuck in the mud at the side of the super highway of happening things.
