On data-driven orgs and decisions: one thing I rarely see discussed is that such states/goals can only exist where there’s a cultural alignment. If the company execs follows their old school “intuitions”, especially if they’ve been successful in the past, data will matter nothing

The #London Tube is literally plastered with ads from credit card companies that promise to revolutionise banking. Apple just joined the crowd and while the ad is about Apple Pay, you can’t help but think that it’s preparing the audience for the Apple Card lunch in the UK. https://t.co/VvJQlYCfcw

I’m the first proponent of APIs as 1st class citizens in any sort of system. I’m not OK with a certain elitism that suggests UIs should be ditched altogether. UIs, if done properly, democratize access to systems & lower operational costs. As a #CIO, you want an inclusive strategy

More importantly than “he are human”: if the only way to manage a system is through APIs, and to manipulate those APIs I need super-devs, there’s an enormous TCO associated to lack of UIs:

The Importance of User Interfaces in IT Infrastructure Management https://t.co/Gb0EqSUA6v

Great conversation in Lisbon with @IDC and some of the top C-Level execs in the country. Hot topic: the unreasonable demand to modern devs that must be polyglot programmers + IT ops, security, and AI experts. Even if you find them, nobody has $1M USD / person to give in salary.

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Lisbon https://t.co/XCfXa1Yd4J

In Lisbon to speak at an @IDC Executive Lunch. As usual, I visit museums & galleries before an event. At #MNAC I have experienced the most compelling example of the #VR potential among hundreds of demos I tried around the world. Vivid enough to see how humans could get addicted. https://t.co/JukiQrg6Dt

Fascinating analysis into Google competitive tactics through ads. A must-read (including the links in the article)>Brands vs Ads https://t.co/N00zzgevGx

Secretive energy startup backed by Bill Gates achieves solar breakthrough https://t.co/9uGEkZKkql

And here is @IDC on the need to address cybersecurity incidents through #automation and #AI. We build #Ansible Security Automation to help the entire security industry to do it more efficiently. https://t.co/PZe8pIfJCM