For decades “Made in China” has generally meant, to the Western world at least, mass produced cheap goods. But the strategic plan “Made in China 2025” established by Premier Li Qekiang aims to move the country into making high value, high tech products in fields like robotics and automation, computer chips, aerospace and biomedical research. […]

The coronavirus pandemic jolted economies and businesses around the world. Immediately experts reported on signs of destruction and offered examples of recovery. In a three-part series, Kitty Fok, Managing Director of IDC, China, explains findings from her annual report, which showed China’s economy in the first quarter of 2020 fell 6.8% compared to Q1 2019. […]

During this shelter-in-place, there have been many feel-good moments of people collaborating with each other whether it’s working from home or personal stuff like having a Zoom party on doing online wine tastings. One of the unexpected story gems was the National Football League draft, in which general managers and coaches—who normally put in insane […]

Ten years ago Jeanne Meister co-authored a book entitled, “The 2020 Workplace“. In it, she didn’t anticipate a pandemic causing us to work from home. But the foundational ideas of remote working still apply and have been brought to the top of our consciousness by many of us being forced to work from home due […]

Autodesk University is the flagship conference of the design software maker Autodesk. One of its most famous products is Auto-CAD, which is so data intensive it requires a workstation to run. The company used to set up a fleet of hundreds of these machines for Autodesk University, held each year in Las Vegas, to train […]

The coronavirus pandemic has modified the way the world works in what could be called the biggest ever work-from-home experiment. Ruben Spruijt, a senior technologist at Nutanix, explains how virtual desktop and desktop-as-a-service technologies are allowing IT departments to stream business applications to remote workers. He says interest in these technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic […]

Leaders are made, not born… and the era when the boss was always right and barked orders to the company’s worker bees has become obsolete. The work of Professor Jim Kouzes, and his collaborator Barry Posner, in the field of leadership studies has been one reason why people are becoming better leaders. On this podcast […]

Global semiconductor orders are one of the barometers of how the the computer industry is doing. Analysts look at the breadth of the market, including everything from the chips in IoT devices, automobiles, industrial appliclations like robotics, servers in data centers and of course in our PCs and phjones. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s the […]

Now that the world has been essentially ushered indoors, the integrity of internet and cloud to continue to serve all users is a question. Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research joins us to talk about this, as well as about companies that have updated their IT with hybrid cloud […]

As the world retreats inside, it’s easy to wonder if the public’s adoption or consumption of immersive experiences and technologies could rise. Formats that are accessible on a smartphone, like 360 video and AR, could take on more importance in our lives, making the shut in experience more bearable. But VR video, which is often […]