On an average more than 250,000 patents get filed every year in US alone. Every company, especially in hi-tech, is notorious about protecting their intellectual property. They hire teams of lawyers to make sure no one steals or copies their ideas; even if these patents never make it to a shipped product. Run the actual…
In every organization there are stellar sales folks who have a touch of gold. For an outsider it appears that they walk in and close a deal over a handshake. Others in the sales team try to mimic their style or observe and learn but never seem to be able to match their throughput. What…
One of the challenges that all enterprise face is to identify the right leaders and build a robust leadership pipeline to secure the company’s future. For any organization that intends to stay in business long after the founders have retired or are gone, the worst nightmare is to have layers of mediocrity in its leadership…
AI takes over as massive layoffs continue in HR departments… This news headlines will not look pretty; forget the irony. Yet, I predict that one of the first line of business to be AIed will be human resource management. Why, you ask? Over the decades, HR has earned a bad reputation. The workers blame them…
Let’s start with the low hanging fruit before I get into the domain of business. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) became absolutely necessary because of big data. If it were not for ML and AI, most of the social media platforms would have been rendered useless from the get-go. Consider a sample of…
Somewhere between November 1994 and January 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. With every click on the hyperlink of static webpages my excitement and visions of the possibilities and the future exploded. During the course of my career, I have never bothered my family with the technical details of my job; but…