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Every week, CIO Journal offers a glimpse into the mind of the CEO, whose vision of technology is shaped by stories in management journals, magazines of general interest and, of course, in-flight publications.
Blockchain to become boring in 2019. One might wonder how the online ledger could become more boring given the precious gigabytes dedicated to the stories that begin, "Blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, is finally attracting the attention of …" But in the analysis Mike Orcutt of MIT Technology Review "Being boring" is equivalent to something that just works. Mr. Orcutt quotes Walmart Inc.The blockchain of food suppliers, the emergence of new platforms around smart contracts and comments from the International Monetary Fund on private cryptocurrencies supported by power stations as a sign that blockchain is more than a word of order. "Revolutions do not always take place as revolutionaries had in mind," he concludes.
Great technology is barely starting. " Join the David Streitfeld of the New York Times on a tour of a stretch of San Jose, California – "a jumble of car washes and car stores" – Alphabet Inc.Google bought a house with only one bathroom and another house for $ 4 million. "We multiply that real estate transaction by dozens, big and small parcels, for a total of hundreds of millions of dollars", to understand how Google – and other high-tech companies are still making a tantrum, thank you, despite the headlines. "All this could change if the anti-tech mood continues to swell or if the economy hits a very hard spot," Mr. Scrive Streitfeld. "On the other hand, the last recession tended to work for Big Tech, giving smaller competitors even more to worry about."
Be perfect without perfectionism. Perfectionism is increasing according to a recent study, according to which more young people are setting higher and higher standards on themselves. But is this a good thing? The research published in the Harvard Business Review on the performance of perfectionists finds mixed results. So-called perfectionists are neither better nor worse than non-perfectionists when it comes to productivity. And they are often more inclined to "mitigate potential consequences", such as anxiety and burn-out. It seems that someone needs to write the business book on Managing Perfectionism.
