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I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days.

Phil McKinney

This isn't just another tech failure analysis. I was the HP Chief Technology Officer who led the technical due diligence on Palm. As CTO, I led the technical due diligence process. The technology was solid. The technology hadn't changed.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower Innovation

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Do you have a custom algorithm or other technology? Accounting Beyond reviewing transactions, what accounting support do you need?

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with William Genovese, CIO Advisory Partner, Kyndryl

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

Genovese is an innovative IT professional with over 20 years of experience driving revenue and profit increases through value-enabling technologies for employers and clients around the world. WG: I am a CIO Advisory Partner with Kyndryl in their Kyndryl Consult (formerly Advisory and Implementation Services Practice area).

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Forms Automation using Azure Form Recognizer

Acuvate

Azure Form Recognizer leverages advanced machine learning technologies to extract text, key-value pairs, line items, structures, and tables from documents. Add in the Azure Computer Vision API, and you also get the ability to capture valuable information from images, digital PDFs, scanned documents, videos, and other related content.

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

Harvard Business Review

His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. Here's a funny video with a handy tip for others who are easily distracted.) In The Quality Control Handbook , Juran called it "The Law of the Vital Few." When he was young, he learned to push past his tendency.

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Tronc’s Data Delusion

Harvard Business Review

Instead of debuting a new, tech-savvy firm that would, in the words of chief digital officer Anne Vasquez, be like “having a tech startup culture meet a legacy corporate culture,” it came off as buzzword-laden and naive. As a marketing ploy the move clearly failed. The Downside of Data. Yet data is no panacea.

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Why Agile Goes Awry — and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation. In one large tech company, their product team focused significant upfront time writing small requirements (called “user stories”). It is no wonder that the CTO of this company said, “my engineers feel like short order cooks in the back of a diner.”

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