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Software Pricing Trends – How Vendors Can Capitalize on the Shift to New Revenue Models
Savvy vendors will adjust their pricing models to create a win-win scenario, where customers can see the value of software more closely reflected in their business processes and vendors can reduce their internal costs and realize more of their revenue from recurring payments.
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Read MoreHow to build a future-proof business: 4 real-world applications of cognitive solutions – IBM Watson
Our current IT systems are being rapidly replaced by cognitive systems that continuously understand, reason and learn like humans do. Unlike older, programmable systems, a cognitive system can ingest and understand large amounts of data, in all its forms (including unstructured). A cognitive system learns from all the data it reads, and from each interaction with the experts and users that train it. It learns from both successes and failures, and it never stops learning.
Source: How to build a future-proof business: 4 real-world applications of cognitive solutions – IBM Watson
Read MoreIs the Life Expectancy of Companies Really Shrinking? – Only Dead Fish
It’s difficult to navigate through all the myriad factors to identify what might really be behind this picture, but perhaps the real story is less about the impending death of large businesses and more about their need to adapt – to move through business and product life cycles more quickly than before, to be more focused on systematic experimentation and organising swiftly around opportunity.
Source: Is the Life Expectancy of Companies Really Shrinking? – Only Dead Fish
Read MoreA Look Back At Why Blockbuster Really Failed And Why It Didn’t Have To
The irony is that Blockbuster failed because its leadership had built a well-oiled operational machine. It was a very tight network that could execute with extreme efficiency, but poorly suited to let in new information. Antioco’s fatal flaw wasn’t one of intelligence or capability, but a failure to understand the networks that would determine his fate.
Source: A Look Back At Why Blockbuster Really Failed And Why It Didn’t Have To
Read MoreThe Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande
Over the past decade, through his writing in The New Yorker magazine and his books Complications and Better, Atul Gawande has made a name for himself as a writer of exquisitely crafted meditations on the problems and challenges of modern medicine. His latest book, The Checklist Manifesto, begins on familiar ground, with his experiences as a surgeon. But before long it becomes clear that he is really interested in a problem that afflicts virtually every aspect of the modern world–and that is how professionals deal with the increasing complexity of their responsibilities. It has been years since I read a book so powerful and so thought-provoking.
Source: The Checklist Manifesto | Atul Gawande
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