Jan Bosch
One of the historical facts that many do not know is that when computers were first developed in the 1940s, several computer architectures were explored that were quite different from the Von Neumann architecture that we ended up with. One of these was the dataflow architecture, where execution takes place based on the availability of … Read more
One of the most interesting learnings from recent years is that it turns out that what we call “white-collar jobs” proved to be much easier to automate with AI than so-called “blue-collar jobs.” White-collar jobs require that thing that we think makes us so special as humans, intelligence, and most of the tasks involved are … Read more
According to archeologists, Earth met with a major asteroid around 65 million years ago. That asteroid and the effects of its impact on our planet killed off the dinosaurs, the only descendants of these magnificent animals being the birds. The asteroid brought about an extensive winter due to the amount of material thrown into the … Read more
Many worry about us destroying the planet and changing the climate. I think there’s little doubt that humans are an important factor. The rate at which the temperature is increasing seems to be much faster than during earlier periods. Also, it will cause migration of people as some parts of the world have simply become … Read more
One of the most important challenges for humans is to deal with change. Our natural inclination is to keep things the same. This has worked incredibly well for most of human history where your life would have been quite similar to that of your parents and grandparents. Even if there were wars, famines and infectious … Read more
All companies start with a purpose. They’re formed to solve a customer problem and, in that sense, their purpose is to solve the problem so that part of the value of the solution can be captured in revenue. They need revenue and free cash flow as they go bankrupt otherwise. Over time, as companies grow, … Read more
One of the topics that often comes up in the startups I’m involved in is sales. As companies seek to scale, they need to move from founder-led sales to hiring sales leads who can help increase their reach in the market. The challenge is that salespeople tend to be likable, smooth-talking individuals who don’t always … Read more
In his book “Slow productivity”, the author, Cal Newport, provides an analysis of the history of performance management. He starts in the manufacturing era where productivity was easy to measure: in practice, it was the number of widgets per hour a factory worker could produce, using all the equipment available. When knowledge work became the … Read more
In the Radical framework, we’ve now arrived at the second A in the acronym: being “aligned” on business goals. This seems like such an obvious statement as most companies claim to have a clear business strategy and associated goals. And I still have to meet the first serious and engaged employee who claims to not … Read more
As someone who works with the bits, ie software, data and AI, I’m often annoyed by the constraints that atoms enforce on products. Whereas it’s easy, or at least doable, to adopt DevOps, DataOps and AIOps, achieving the same for the mechanical and electronics parts of our systems often proves to be impossible or prohibitively … Read more
