This past week I attended the 13th International Cloud Expo West out in Santa Clara. Once again it was a fantastic event. I had meetings with some really interesting start-ups in cloud, attended several excellent sessions, met with some great…
Category: innovation
TechViews Unplugged – October 2013
In this episode of TechViews Unplugged, George Watt of CA Technologies and I discuss the latest research on DevOps, Samsung’s OLED displays, and how the Fitbit fitness tracker provides unexpected healthcare insights.
Survey: DevOps an Overnight Success Because It Works
We’ve all heard of bands or movie stars that seem to be overnight successes, even though they’ve been working hard for 10 years to “suddenly” make it. Like them, the idea of DevOps seems to have come out of nowhere,…
▶ TechViews Unplugged: September 2013
In this episode of TechViews Unplugged, Andi Mann and George Watt of CA Technologies discuss smartwatches, iPhone 5S, quantum computing, car hacks, and enterprise mobility. via ▶ TechViews Unplugged – Quantum Computing, Samsung’s Smartwatch, Enterprise Mobility & More! – YouTube.
Richard Branson on Staying Ahead
From travel to entertainment, Virgin Global always aims to be one step ahead of its competition. The CEO of the company, Sir Richard Branson, has learned that innovation is the key to remaining on top. I recently sat down with…
How Large Companies Are Driving Innovation
There is this myth that large enterprises can’t be innovative. Nothing could be further than the truth, and to prove it, I recently gave a videotaped talk where I ran through my top ten examples of the IT-led innovation that is…
How to Succeed with a Mobile-First Strategy
In my last post, I shared my initial impressions of CA World 2013. Today I’d like to drill a little more deeply in to something I saw at the show. Based on the conversations I had with customers at CA World,…
Five Things I Learned About Innovation from Sir Richard Branson
I still cannot believe I had the opportunity to interview Sir Richard Branson one-on-one for our Luminaries video series – in which we interview prominent business, technology and government leaders. If you have been following along, you know I was hugely…
CIOs Must Break Down Knowledge Barriers To Spur Innovation – Heller Report
Today I had the honor to have a guest blog published over at The Heller Report’s regular column, “You and Your CIO Career“. This is an excellent blog for CIOs from Martha Heller, President of Heller Search Associates (‘the premier…
Let’s Redefine “IoT” to Mean “The Innovation of Things”
When pundits first began talking about the Internet of Things-also known as “IoT“-the buzz was around applications consumers would use as zillions of devices connected to the Internet. Who doesn’t remember the breathless articles about how our refrigerators would scan…
#AskBranson at CA World 2013 about Innovation
If you follow me on Twitter (@AndiMann), you will already know how excited I am that Sir Richard Branson is our keynote speaker at CA World 2013. To start with, Branson is a fantastic communicator with whom I share deep…