Tech as an Enabler — Not the End Goal
On February 5, 2020, ProFocus hosted a discussion of Portland-based technology leaders. This was a roundtable discussion on the topic of implementing new technology in your organization, and why tech should be an enabler, rather than the end goal. John Boone, the...
Eye Exercises For Tech Consultants With Excess Screen Time
The “experts” keep telling us that we need to minimize our screen time. But the truth is that much of the working population spends a lot of time with the computer… and Tech Consultants, in particular, have a profession that makes it pretty difficult to cut back...
Why Every Company Is a Software Company
“Software is eating the world.” I seem to be hearing and seeing that expression all over the internet lately, that it’s almost sounding like meme nowadays. But it also happens to be true. Can you think of a single type of company or organization in existence today...
Machine Learning: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love SKYNET
For any of you science fiction buffs out there, probably one of the oldest plots out there is the sentient computer or robot running amok. The HAL-9000 supercomputer from “2001: A Space Odyssey”, brags in an interview with the BBC that he is perfect and incapable of...