How Enterprises Can Work Differently in the Digital Era
Creating a modern and flexible operating model for IT is no easy feat. Many technology organizations are still operating as a “service provider” to their business units, rather than a strategic partner. The moment this model becomes a problem is often when the business begins to move quickly or veer from the plan. For most companies undergoing a digital transformation, that time is happening now.
The foundation of much of enterprise IT is the budget under which they operate. Unfortunately, in many organizations, technology teams are still simply looked at as a cost centre. This means they are seen as…
Healthy alliances can be a critical growth factor for business
Within product-focused organizations, I’m of the opinion that the role of widespread partnerships is undervalued, and can go unnoticed when compared to direct sales channels and proprietary products.
In more dramatic cases, software-as-a-service businesses may shy away from forming partnerships until very late in their maturity. Despite various examples of unicorns that grew explosively in part due to partnerships, there still may exist a negative stigma against partnerships apparent within some organizations.
We can’t truly understand causality, but there are several potential reasons for why a company may avoid going the partner route. …
A COMMUNITY OF PRODUCT PEOPLE BUILDING PRODUCTS FOR PEOPLE
Future Work welcomes you. We’re (almost) a community of like-minded individuals who work on tech for work. We’re looking for product people who build products for people. Get the gist?
What’s a Future Work-er?
I’ve been working in the “HR” tech space for several years, but outside of the somewhat dated professional associations for traditional back-office human resources professionals, there isn’t necessarily a community that exists for those of us who develop and sell the products those teams use in their day-to-day.
My goal for Future Work is to build and grow a group of professionals, whether you’re from a start-up, a big tech…
How the L&D business has become a life raft in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
To quote the great Bob Dylan, “The Times They are A-Changin”. The short-term impact of the global pandemic is evident to every one of us as we sit at home, sheltered from the outside world. On the other hand, we do not yet know the long-term effects that come from an event of this magnitude.
One long-term side effect that we can almost guarantee, however, is the global shift in the way we work. By this, I mean not only our day-to-day jobs — but the way we conduct business and how our workforces operate overall.
Leading up to 2020…
Hands-on command line tips for a Unix-like OS shell
Housekeeping Items 🏡
In this quick tutorial, we’ll be using the bash shell, but hey — use what you want. My personal favourite is zsh, which can be downloaded using homebrew — more on that tool another time. A shell is basically an interpreter for direct requests to the OS, using a command line rather than a graphical user interface. A “terminal” is a way to access this shell. We’ll be using “<>” to denote when something is a filler. For example, if you see <file name>.txt, that means any text file you’ll use in the example. For most commands there are many…
Exploring Different Types of APIs and When to Use Each
In today’s tech landscape, APIs are a hot topic. The rise of microservice based architectures opposed to legacy monoliths has further driven the necessity of robust APIs. With microservices, powerful applications are broken up – i.e. distributed as discrete components across numerous logical and physical machines. This is possible in part due to the availability of cloud computing – virtualized access to almost limitless compute and storage resources made available in a pay-as-you-go model, provided by large technology companies operating massive data centres around the globe.
These microservices based architectures are a contrast to the large-scale, tightly coupled applications of…
A Guide to Delineating Between Services, When Everything Is Labeled as One.
The year is now 2019, and we are fast approaching two whole decades in the 21st-century world. Changes have occurred at enormous scale since the early 2000s, across nearly every industry, sector, and vertical. Technology and its use in both business and everyday life has skyrocketed. Web 2.0 has come and gone, and we’re in the heart of digital transformation maturity. Everything is digital, and everything is a service.
But what does this all really mean? And what is a service? In the tech space, words like service, digital, platform, “big” data, analytics, and robotics get thrown around quite often…
A high-level look at the regulatory landscape and how it relates to digital communications.
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Introduction
To the everyday person, February 4th may not seem like an important date in world history. Sure, in 1749 the first ever US Electoral College may have chosen George Washington as president — but besides that, to the average joe this day in the dead of winter means almost nothing. However, on the 4th of February in 2004 — the digital world as we know it changed forever. On this day, Facebook was launched.
Fast forward 14 years, and Facebook is largely a household name that rivals traditional brands of the past such as Cheerios, Coca-Cola, or McDonalds. Facebook is…
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