After nearly a gap of 2 months my renaissance towards sharing
my learning/reading/experience erupted, this impediment was due to my steadfastness
to my routine schedule. Need to catch up a lot and starting with something that
has been flashing for some time.
LATITUDE Vs GOOGLE MAPS
During last week of March 2017, Google unveiled a new
feature to its popular Maps app where users can share their locations with friends
and contacts in real time.
Yes! Google Maps users will now be able to quickly let
friends know if they are running late for meeting and if you are wondering why
Google never thought of this earlier then you are wrong. In fact they came up
with this idea in the year 2009. The pillar of this great company is its
innovation and that too light year ahead of its competitors in bringing
innovation to its products.
In 2009 when Smartphone were still at infancy stage Google
introduced this Latitude app. At that time this app drew privacy concerns and
several articles were published highlighting the risks by enabling this app.
After 8 years they brought this back to public after working
on the feedback received on the privacy meanwhile the world has also changed
since 2009 when they first tried this. Now more people are in social media when
compared to that period in spite of the unaddressed inherent risk associated
with the status updates we provide in these social media.
Whether we make use of this app or not is a personal requirement to each of us. But a key thing to observe is that, let us turn back and take stock of exactly what we gave up some years back and if it is good time to embrace now we shouldn’t be waiting to adopt. It might turn out to be a life changing hug.
RPA and AI - Phobia
If you are associated with IT or ITES industry the buzzword
that will obviously encircle you is RPA or AI. When Robotic Process Automation
or Artificial Intelligence are talked about then people immediately start
picturing about tiny robots that look like humans that renders some activity. Agree
to some extent but in reality it is different.
Each day AI surrounds us in all activities we do, be it
while browsing internet where it guides you to certain pages or some relevant
pages are flashed based on your recent searches. Most of us presume that
manufacturing industries are the early adopters of AIs but personally I feel it
dates back to evolution of wheels. Necessity is the mother of invention.
AI is no more a “nice to have” choice, it has become
integral part of process innovation and cost optimization, which will bring
tangible business benefits. Choice is when and where you want to start from?
These innovations can’t be adopted overnight, this needs
adoption by organization and its people without any fear.
Ever since RPA/AI came into limelight there has been fear that machines will take over humans. Imagine if the same thought had erupted in the past during the invention of wheel then evolution of human would not have progressed. The way we work is going to change and role we played is going to evolve. Personally I feel that role of humans cannot vanish and it is going to evolve further. Technology cannot take over whereas humans can take over and make better use of it. Having said that, definitely we will have challenges facing this evolution and the foremost one that comes to my mind is how we are going to handle this in designing the curriculum for school or colleges. Though in the past we have made changes to curriculum but this time the magnitude and pace of changes are different to relax.
This reminds me of Philip Kotler’s quote “If you will remain
in same business you are in now in next 5 years, you will not exist in the
business”, which means you have to be on the wheels of innovation at
fairly decent pace so that you are not left out of the race.
