There is a familiar ring to this. It often takes a crisis to drive technology adoption. Cloud services adoption is no different. COVID-19 related queries for technology upgrades are on the rise. Despite the growing rhetoric around digital transformation, cloud services…
The man ahead of me at the airport boarding line looked nervous. The airline agent was holding up his passport, face high, as her glance switched from his face to the passport, and back to his face. She appeared to…
It’s no mean feat: Sri Lanka topped the list of Lonely Planet’s countries to visit in 2019. To appreciate the scope of this achievement, you have to put it in perspective. Countries big and small around the world are vying…
If you are a sales and marketing professional in the ICT industry, you are probably developing an imposter syndrome. Your customers are implementing emerging technologies and engaging you in discussions way outside your comfort zone. IoT, AI, AR/VR, Blockchain, the…
If you have not been paying attention, you may have missed this. There is a shift away from the pursuit of perfection. The world is going with “good enough.” Perfection is dynamic Products and services have to evolve continually and…
I could see her from a distance. For that matter, I wasn’t sure that it was a woman until she briefly lifted her head to tuck her straggly hair back behind her ear. She didn’t look a lot older than…
The patio of the Taj Malabar Hotel is quiet as I sit nursing a drink and working on an e-book for a client. I am in Kochi, a coastal city on the south-west coast of India, often referred to as…
The email from the building management had an innocuous subject line. It read: Owner Survey. Typically, surveys are not my thing; but this one was different. The building management rarely sent surveys out. As I read through the questionnaire and…
Featured Image by Justin Aikin on Unsplash After a lengthy political approval process, the Canadian Government recently legalized recreational marijuana. Considering that marijuana has been illegal in Canada since 1923, It’s kind of a big deal! Effective October 17, 2018,…
It turned out to be a matter of life and death… “You should have won that match,” I said, as Byron came off the squash court. He had just wrapped up a closely-contested house-league match which he lost 2–3 to…