The eighth annual Global Economic Summit in Hyderabad, India opened with promising news about the rise of women entrepreneurs. While an increase from five million women-owned businesses in 1997 to eleven million in 2016 in the US is positive, is…
Year: 2017
Finding Humanity in Social Media
When it comes to social media, the right hashtag can send a tweet soaring. Hashtags are all about getting the word out. #HurricaneHarvey, #PuertoRico and #MumbaiRains are painfully fresh after a banner year for natural disasters. Social media is the…
Old Seeds of a New Tree – The Book
Who doesn’t like to listen to stories? The best storytellers in the world are always our parents and grandparents. As a child, I would listen intently to stories from my mother and grandmothers. I was blessed to hear hundreds of…
The New Money: A Day in the Life of Cryptocurrency
Payment services like PayPal and peer-to-peer Venmo have made the process of making and receiving payments much easier at the individual level, important in a world that sometimes moves at warp speed. These services act as a simplistic alternative to…
Untethered: Life Beyond the Smartphone
The conversation went something like this: “I’m working from home today. I need to prepare for a speech tomorrow so I need things quiet today.” “Want me to turn your notifications off until the end of the workday?” “Yes. Wait,…
To Ma With Love
An article or even a full book on my mother, Asha Singh (I call her “Ma”), can hardly describe who she is. Having written hundreds of articles over the years, this one is certainly the most intense and no matter…
The Case for Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality in Business
Market revenues for virtual reality in 2016 were $2.5 billion while those for augmented reality were a lesser $1.5 billion. By 2021, those numbers will grow significantly—and swap places. Augmented reality is projected as the big winner of the two,…
How Students Taught Me About Hope
The Zensar Foundation bus stops just inside the gates of Udaan and as we step off the bus, we are greeted by Dipti, the school’s primary teacher, and a small gathering of smiling students, who present us with a bouquet…
Jobs in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is pervasive. Predictions of robots replacing human workers and rampant job loss are in the news every day. Is AI mired in controversy? If artificial intelligence is really a sleeping giant, why rattle its cage? Why not leave…
Tagged with: 3D printing, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Digital, Industrial Revolution, Self-driving cars, spacex
Keynote at Zensar’s Global Customer Conclave 2017
It was a delight to host our customers and partners from all over the world over the last 3 days at Pune, India during our Global Customer Conclave 2017. The theme of this conclave – Return on Digital™ was aptly…
Tagged with: Blockchain, Cloud, Digital, Experience Design, GCC, KOSH, Living Digital, Return on Digital, ROD, RPA, Vinci, ZenLabs, Zensar
Evolution of a Revolution
Watching talks from the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, I was drawn to the discussions surrounding Industrial Revolution 4.0. The earlier Industrial Revolution gave us the light bulb, telegraph, airplane and Model T. These were highly relevant inventions…
Tagged with: Industrial Revolution 4.0
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