Soulmate! What is a soulmate? Well, in Spanish it is alma gemela? But that is only the translation. A soulmate is a person that understands you completely and is thoroughly interested in you as a person — going beyond the physical and straight to the soul — unconditionally sharing all thoughts and interestest in every aspect of life. It is the most admirable thing you can experience in your life. It will open your heart and soul as never before. But also spark your creativity, business ideas and give you inspiration and motivation for anything in life. Most people settle for...
What is life?!
I remember the good old Wired series and a conversation between two detectives. The quote that stuck was: ‘Life Jimmy, you know what that is? It is the shit that happens while you wait for the moments that never come’! As research shows, populations have happy and fulfilled lives, but at the same time, people are alone and individualistic. Technology and stuff that does not add to the emotional, mental, nor physical stability dominate the life of most people. Addicted to scrolling and dancing panda’s scattered over social media platforms. These platforms lower the awkwardness and discomfort of social contact,...
Artificial Intelligence, Sanity Check
Cogito ergo sum (I think. Therefore I am)!Rene Descartes The media streams nowadays are filled with various messages concerning Artificial Intelligence(AI) and the impact of it on our society, employment, education and way of work. The fact is that the technological advancements are transforming all of the above; however, before we can judge how these developments are influencing us, we first have to understand what Artificial Intelligence is. Also, before saying something is AI I want to elaborate on what so-called AI is but also connect it to something we don’t have a technological grasp on, our consciousness, but first,...
Management consultancy is dead, long live management consultancy
Management consulting is much more than perceived by the companies nowadays, it is not a simple trade of advice with invoices. Strategic management advice is a package of various services bound in a prestigious highly expensive box. However, then again, it brings high business value for the business customers. A management consultant in his element works together with the client bringing value through information, expertise, business insights and execution of the advice. There was a time the consultants ware on top of the hill, with brightest minds in house. Researching and collecting data from various industries, markets and companies resulted...
Existential crises of companies
Most organisation dating pre-2000 are coping with an existential crisis. They have stapled their products and services continuously losing touch with the customer. And then came the IT, automating certain functions, but for each, we got another supplier meaning the systems couldn’t communicate nor exchange information. In the meantime, we siloed our operations and departments micromanaging everything and losing touch even more. Of course, the business kept going because it was beneficiary to the board and the employees. But the frustration can’t be hidden that easily. Then came the Service Oriented Architecture, Enterprise Service Bus, Interoperability and Data management. Games played...
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