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Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
Data
Big data without the magic: where to start when you have a lot of data and little value
Why inventorying your sources and metrics matters more than buying a platform, and how to get to actual value from data.
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AI
The Watson lesson: business buys faster answers, not smarter machines
Looking at Watson as a knowledge management and search case - not as a spectacle, but as a working example of what actually matters to a business.
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AI
After Siri: why voice interfaces matter beyond the phone
Where voice can genuinely help - in service desks, field work, and access to instructions - and why this is about speed, not convenience.
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IT
Own datacenter, hosting, or cloud: count speed of change, not servers
How to move the infrastructure conversation from hardware costs to speed of response, SLA, and clear ownership of responsibility.
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