Digital Reinvention: Part 2 – How Do Organizations Get Ready for Digital Reinvention?

Special guests from IBM joined neXt Curve to discuss the future of digital, their thesis on “Digital Reinvention” and how organizations need to take a different approach to their business, culture and leadership models to ready themselves for Digital Reinvention in part 2 of this 3-part series. 

Digital Reinvention – Part 1: What Makes Digital Reinvention Different?

Special guests from IBM joined neXt Curve to discuss the future of digital, their thesis on “Digital Reinvention” and what enterprises need to do as they look past digital transformation to capitalize on new opportunities to reinvent their businesses and their industry in this first installment in a 3-part webcast series. 

Want to Get Value Out of IoT? Stop Talking About IoT

Do you scratch your head when someone asks you if you have an “IoT strategy”?  I do, and I find myself inevitably asking what one means by “IoT strategy”.  Why is the Internet of Things (a.k.a. “IoT”) such a confusing thing for many of us? According to a 2016 Gartner study, 43 percent of enterprises… Continue reading Want to Get Value Out of IoT? Stop Talking About IoT

The Hybrid Cloud Bill of Rights

The cloud landscape continues to change and evolve. Our current assumptions about cloud and how it will influence IT and our IT investments will need to evolve as well.  When you consider the fluidity of the cloud vendor landscape, it is important to consider price/performance market intelligence to make the best decisions for your cloud strategy – your hybrid cloud strategy. 

The Future of Cloud: The Cloud Continuum

Cloud of yesterday is not Cloud as we know it today.  The computing model continues to evolve and virtualized enterprise data centers converge with public cloud service in creating the emerging frontier of hybrid computing.  Where is cloud computing going and what is next? 

Bitcoin & Blockchain: The Semantic & Conceptual Disconnects That Get in The Way of Value

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain are tremendously misunderstood and misrepresented in the media and within the industry today.  The challenge in properly understanding Blockchain and its applications such as Bitcoin is rooted in the fact that Bitcoin is neither a technology, a currency or digital gold.  It is what people think and imagine it to be at… Continue reading Bitcoin & Blockchain: The Semantic & Conceptual Disconnects That Get in The Way of Value

CES 2018: Key Takeaways

neXt Curve attended the largest consumer electronics trade show on the planet with over 180,000 in attendance to identify the deeper technology and market trends that are underlying the rapid evolution of our digital lives and are expressed in the new digitally-enabled consumer applications from smart homes, virtually reality to connected vehicles.

Retail/Hospitality Industries Digitally Transformed: The Next Mobile Carrier Killer App

Mobile carriers have the opportunity to reshape industries, such as the hospitality and retail industries, through 5G networking combined with edge computing as the IoT transformation is permeating through the US economy.

World Internet Conference 2017: Key Takeaways

China’s journey toward becoming a digital economy is well underway.  Internet Plus is the vision and the framework that is guiding the digitization of China’s economy and the development of the next generation of digital businesses and industry models.  The epicenter of China’s digital industrial revolution – Wuzhen.

The Future of The Car: Before We Give Up Our Steering Wheels

Autonomous/connected vehicles are all the rage at the moment with many industry pundits asserting and forecasting that self-driving cars will fill our streets in the near future.  But there are some important realities that need to be considered before we can kiss our steering wheels goodbye.