Category: Basic Querying

October 16, 2019

Over the past few years, gig economy companies and the treatment of their labor force has become a hot button issue for public and private sector debate. At our recent annual Disrupt event in San Francisco, we dug into how […]

October 8, 2019

Talk to any CIO or IT leader today and they will universally point to one problem facing nearly every organization: Finding and keeping qualified technical people. A few years ago, roughly 64,000 students graduated from U.S. colleges and universities with […]

September 20, 2019

Today’s product manager is “the mini-CEO of the product,” a McKinsey report says. It’s a huge job, occupying the intersection between customers, business issues, and products. Product managers must understand customer needs, prioritize features, and work with the engineering team […]

September 19, 2019

On behalf of 50 state Attorneys General, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a nationwide antitrust probe of Google on September 9 and issued a 29-page civil investigative demand, which was obtained by the business press, directing Google to answer […]

September 19, 2019

To reach consumers, brands need omnichannel strategies that deliver a consistent customer experience at every touchpoint. Yet today’s technical and business conversations about omnichannel are often too limited in scope to achieve what’s ultimately possible. Brands typically only focus on […]

September 16, 2019

In 2019 the global market for IT services will exceed one trillion dollars. Roughly 1/3 of that business will be contracts that come up for renewal and one third of that business will be retendered. One thing that is certain […]

September 16, 2019

In “Designed for Digital: How to Architect Your Business for Sustained Success,” Jeanne Ross, Cynthia Beath and Martin Mocker offer a contemporary digital model for enterprises. Those who can obtain it will have the ‘right to win’ and who cannot […]

September 9, 2019

A month ago, 181 US companies announced that shareholder interests would no longer be the primary driving force behind all corporate decisions. Those who signed the statement included large companies such as JPMorgan Chase, General Motors and Apple. Five new […]

September 3, 2019

As a leader of your organization, you strive for one thing more than any other – having a team performing at its best. It’s a win-win-win situation. When the team performs at the highest possible potential, everyone benefits: the company, […]

August 20, 2019

In holding various leadership positions in Operations engineering organizations over more than 20 years – either as a team lead, architect, or leading a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization – I developed a philosophy that I’ve used as guidance […]