Strengthening Regional Development This is the closing post of this series. In all previous ones I have considered the World as a single entity, and I pointed out that cooperation is needed, both at the level of a single multinational company (Corporate Governance), at the level of supply and delivery …
Read More »Planning for the New World – V
Redesigning Social Contracts, Skills and Jobs The Digital Transformation is shifting the needs, and values of human contribution to wealth creation in several sectors. It is not the first time such a shift takes place, three centuries ago it was the industrial revolution powered by steam and later on by …
Read More »5G: picking up steam or slowing down?
The Ericsson Mobile Report June 2020 is out and it makes for interesting reading. Clearly one should keep in mind that Ericsson perspective is the one of a company that need the equipment market to pick up steam as soon as possible… Here the points that I found notable: The …
Read More »Planning for the new World – II
Harnessing the Fourth Industrial Revolution We are already in the path of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the one characterised by a merging of the physical, digital and -at least for some- biological world. Personally I tend to limit the characterisation to the merging of physical and digital leaving the merging …
Read More »What about a thousands drones flying over your head?
As drones gained traction, both in the consumer market that has now reached several millions as well as in the business area where drones are really starting to be used and where they are expected to become part of industrial and delivery chains –2.4 million expected to ship in 2023-, …
Read More »Home-working for truck drivers
There is plenty of activities that we can do from remote, as we have had plenty of opportunities to experience in these last months of lock down. However, for sure, you cannot drive a truck from home, wouldn’t you? As a matter of fact a Swedish company has decided that …
Read More »Could the convergence of Mixed Reality, Robots and Social Networks be the future of hybrid attendance and participation in conferences and other gathering events?
Posted on behalf of Louis Nisiotis and Lyuba Alboul As a result of the recent outbreak of COVID-19 and the wide-reaching recommendations for discouraging or even prohibiting large gatherings, many conferences, concerts, matches and tournaments, and various meetings have either being postponed, cancelled or changed venues, with some of them deciding to …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – Societal Scenarios II
Connected car Cars have had connectivity for several years now. It started with top of the line models and then it trickled down to basically any new model. In the meantime the meaning of connected car has evolved, from a mere connection able to raise a red flag to a …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers IX
Growth of distributed Clouds Centralisation vs decentralisation has been on designers’ table for several decades and over this period we have seen the shift of interest moving back and forth. The fact is that there is no silver bullet and as technology evolves, and its adoption spreads, the context changes …
Read More »The many faces of Digital Transformation – The Enablers VIII
Evolution from (tele) communication infrastructures to communications fabric – II 5G is going to be remembered, in 20 years time, as a transitional evolution, one that led to the change of paradigm in communication infrastructures. In 5G we have two seeds for this paradigm change: the architectural possibility of shifting …
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