by Mark Raskino | January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Gartner Fellows maintain an occasional research report for clients called ‘the Research Incubator’. Its a journal of unconventional thinking. We use it to capture leading edge analyst research thinking that is partly formed, challenging, orthogonal or is important but simply doesn’t fit into our existing structures and coverage. In the July 2007 edition (G00150326) [...]
Category: Innovation Recession Strategy Tags: Automation, Expert Systems, Jobs, Lawyer, Recession
by Mark Raskino | January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
My colleague Ken McGee pointed me to this new BEA data, out today. It shows how investment in IT in the US economy declined in the second half of last year. My quick chart below.
Category: Economy IT Industry Recession Tags: IT Industry, Recession
by Mark Raskino | January 28, 2009 | 1 Comment
When I walked into my local branch of Argos recently, I found a whole row of new self-service kiosks. There are regularly queues for the two self-service checkouts at the Tesco’s a couple of doors down. There are reports of a self service test at KFC in Wales and stories of Kiosk trial success at [...]
Category: Economy Innovation Management Recession Tags: Automation, Jobs, Self-Service
by Mark Raskino | September 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Wednesday 18th September 2008, was by many accounts one of the worst days the UK financial system has ever seen. Britain’s biggest mortgage-providing bank had to be hastily acquired by another to prevent its collapse and this came just two days after the London arm of a major US investment bank actually did go to [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Economy Recession Tags: banking IT, credit crunch, Recession
