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Just in time when companies need their next threshold of efficiency and effectiveness, IT industry pundits have coined a new term Botsourcing. Interesting article by Phil Fersht on how 2018 investments intentions by industry are stacked in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) vs Outsourcing. copyright and credits – HfS Research However, the key question remains is RPA the new outsourcing or it is just that outsourcing and automation are converging now? I personally believe it is the later. We will soon see…

Thinking of setting up a cloud center of excellence (CoE) in your organization. Here are some of the learnings from my recent experiences that may be worth the read. Use them as guiding principles when enabling your team  Roles – Operating model decisions determine how people fill roles that achieve business outcomes and not vice versa. Embrace the change – willingly and enthusiastically.  Change of applications, IT systems and business direction is expected with any transformation initiative Change Management –…

Robotics Process Automation (RPA) takes robots out of the humans. Typical knowledge worker employed on a back-office process has a lot of repetitive, routine tasks that   are dreary and uninteresting. RPA is a type of software that mimics the activity of a human being in carrying out a task within a process. It can do repetitive stuff more quickly, accurately, and tirelessly than humans, freeing them to do other tasks requiring human strengths such as emotional intelligence, reasoning, judgment, and…

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE by Phil Knight My rating: 5 of 5 stars Buck’s “Shoe Dog” is an interesting journey, full of struggle and problems, but also full of hope and victories. Best business book and best memoir I have read so far. Lot of touch and go moments in the journey of what we see Nike today. Phil Knight described every charter in so much detail that you will be really glued to the…

The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino My rating: 4 of 5 stars Og Mandino got me glued to this self-help classic from the beginning with his powerful principles, written in a compelling, clear style. I picked this book for its flashy title but it is really about an approach to living one’s life so that you can realize your dreams. It is up to you if you want to have a reason to applaud or spend life…

Humility is an undervalued commodity, so it is a great time to buy. Acknowledging the help and contributions of others on the team prevents you from being too high to hear the opinions of others and the lows of not feeling like you can do it on your own. 

People reject you for their own reasons, and those reasons often have little to do with you. Don’t let rejection knock your confidence, because it’s often not a reflection of your competence or character. Focus on doing good work and making good choices. Let other people’s judgments fall where they may.

Ever thought of using IBM BPM process to fetch the speed of the vehicle running on the road or may be disabling a vehicle remotely if it is stolen. Neil Kolban @IBM created an awesome demonstration putting together Watson IoT platform, IBM Bluemix APIs and open source platforms like Chip, Raspberry PI. He uses Open API to describe the services to call, IBM API Connect and Node Red flow to build this with almost no coding. Finally, makes a rest…

Blockchain is a global distributed ledger representing a network consensus of every transaction that has ever occurred. Like the World Wide Web of information, it’s the World Wide Ledger of value – a distributed ledger that anyone can download and run on their personal computer. Simply put, think of the blockchain as a kind of a public spreadsheet. This spreadsheet is stored simultaneously on a bunch of different computers and is encrypted. When someone transfers a Bitcoin (or anything else…