16,500 transistors took the first men to the moon. Each of the estimated 100 million iPhone 13s in circulation carries an A15 chip that has over 15 billion on board each phone. The past 50 years have seen the world of data become part of the fabric of day to day living - though, curiously, we still live in a very “flat” data world. All that is now changing quickly with the advent of the Cloud infrastructure along with hardware independent web-based processing. This website, for example, is being delivered to you using what’s called “serverless” computing. Serverless is at the vanguard of a legion of more secure, powerful and adaptable tools that will revolutionize the face of business… …and within 10 years, not 50!
Whether it’s in terms of how to communicate more effectively with consumers, add more value to services and / or products, or making it possible to radically scale the scope and reach of the business - deriving practical and near term benefits by levering technology is critical to business productivity and long term differentiation and strategic advantage.
Analysis, validation, planning, testing, incremental progress and team building are all key elements of what needs to be an explicit, fact based, and methodical approach to creating success..
Winning. strategies typically come out of rigorous research, careful, measured and validated identification of risks and opportunities, and the commitment of management to moving forward.
While the goal is to win in a manner that produces significant gains near term and longer term, longer term success will only be achieved if there’s a team that emerges to carry processes and strategies forward.