Modernomics* – Daily Writings on Technology
a site by Erik T. Kaiser, Design Technologist
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been getting one particular question more and more… Inquisitive minds wonder: “what is it you do exactly?” and I feel that I have a really great (and vague) answer to share. I like to tell people that I work as a problem solver, helping large enterprises solve their most complex issues. Sometimes I [...]
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Due to the nature of my job, I find that I am constantly thinking about how to improve customer satisfaction, but as a consumer, it’s also something that I am acutely aware of when it’s done incredibly well (see my post about J.Crew). Add technology to the mix, and you can bring satisfaction levels to [...]
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Lately, I’ve been thinking about “passion,” what drives people and what leads them to be successful. Everyone says that you must do something that you care deeply about, otherwise there’s no chance in being happy. Does that translate to success? I think there’s more to that equation, and it typically involves hard work, perseverance, and [...]
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I’m a bit surprised that this is just beginning to be a trend… but nevertheless… A recent survey of business leaders, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Accenture, revealed what those IT and business leaders are discussing in their closed-door budget meetings. The results hint at one thing when it comes to [...]
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I’m a bit surprised that this is just beginning to be a trend… but nevertheless… A recent survey of business leaders, conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by Accenture, revealed what those IT and business leaders are discussing in their closed-door budget meetings. The results hint at one thing when it comes to [...]
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If technology and systems didn’t come so naturally, I really believe that I would have become an economist. I just find it fascinating. The “business information systems” major was such a perfect fit for my abilities, that I didn’t really think twice about selecting it when I was choosing my major at Lehigh. But, as I [...]
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Over the past weekend, I was having lunch with a dear friend at a cafe in Hollywood, and we were joined by her non-profit business partner and another member of their US based team trying to accomplish a very awesome and noble feat, opening a school for an under served and poor town in rural [...]
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The current landscape of the enterprise information systems sector is one with a vast selection of software vendors armed with a seemingly endless number of proprietary software applications. In the typical business model, the users of these applications are charged large sums of money for licenses to run the programs, and at times, even larger [...]
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“Ultimately, we believe that advancement in cloud computing technology will be driven by open source initiatives where large communities of engineers can collaborate and develop new code for the new applications and demands posed by the cloud model,” says Shelton Shugar, SVP Cloud Computing at Yahoo!
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