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Business Enablers The Digital Transformation is happening because there are strong economic/business motivations. These can be clustered under the areas of Operational Improvements and Growth Drivers. I mentioned these two areas in this order because existing industries are mostly driven by operational efficiency and only look at growth as a …

There are platforms and then there are platforms In the opening post of this series I considered the “big nine” mostly from the point of view of their capability to offer storage, processing and access (this latter mediated by Internet). These nine platforms are quite different from one another, as …

Doesn’t matter who you are talking to, car manufacturers, trucking companieus, taxi drivers and lay people, everybody perceives that the coming of self-driving cars is going to produce a disruption in the transportation area and in the transportation value chain. There are perceptual aspects, such as “if I have a …

I knew about Uber and their impressive software optimising the booking of Uber car and then smoothing the path by providing driving directions based on traffic conditions picked up by Uber cars in the area. I did not expected that software was also behind Uber services in taking pizzas to …

Lyft, a ride-hailing company, is trying to differentiate its offer from Uber. It has focussed at the business market trying to become the ride-hailing company for companies by striking agreement with several of them in their US market to carry their employees. Last week it has included in the app …

Let me now consider what may happen, in terms of Digital Transformation, in the area of private transportation (cars). It helps looking back at how the car market evolved. At the very start cars where an artisanal product, there was no standardisation and no rules of operation (the roads were …

The “Intelligence” of a car is under scrutiny in these weeks after the accident where a self driving car hit, and killed, a woman that was crossing the road. In a way people were surprised: how could a car that is able to navigate the maze of a city roads, …

As a follow up to yesterday post on the deployment of autonomous systems, it is interesting to notice that it may happen in different ways. An example is provided in the trucking sector where we already have “platooning” with a “column” of trucks and a single driver at the head …

Uber has just signed the agreement with NASA to cooperate in making flying cars (taxis in their case) a reality. The news has been taken by many newspaper and televisions around the world an this follows the announcement made few months ago in Dubai to prepare a taxi service that …

ARM has announced the Cortex-A75 processor, an evolution of its Cortex CPU line.  Interestingly, in their announcement ARM is making explicit reference to machine learning applications. It is the first time, as far as I remember, that the increasing performances of a chip are emphasised targeting AI and Machine Learning. …