While their impact on business is hard to predict and unlikely to be the same for all institutions, few will dispute that over the past couple of decades IT has been significantly transforming just every company, industry, economy and society around the world, as well as our own personal lives. Growing complexity.  MORE >>

It marked the passage of the Internet from a network primarily used by universities, research labs and geeks in general, to a platform with a vastly expanded reach and connectivity.  It gives us the ability to deliver all kinds of information, services and apps to all those billions of mobile devices over the broadband wireless networks.  MORE >>

In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, mainframes, minicomputers, data networks, transaction processing and data bases enabled financial innovations like ATMs and credit cards.  Companies - and their customers - stand to gain from the system too. For a long time, money was embodied in precious metals like gold and silver.  MORE >>

It encompasses the whole money ecosystem , including the global payment infrastructures , the management of personal identities and personal financial data, the global financial flows among institutions and between institutions and individuals, the government regulatory regimes, and so on.   The rest is history. MORE >>

Sogeti is a technology consulting company of about 20,000 people. Last night on the way to a dinner event, Michiel Boreel the CTO, explained that the company markets itself in part by holding events designed to provoke thought and controversy. ” “Jimmy Stewart is us in the age of Big Data.” NOTE: Live-blogging. MORE >>