It’s really amazing how much advice for today’s technologists can be found in history.
Some of our favorites:
Claude Shannon: Assume the enemy knows the system
Sun Tzu: Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting
Sun Tzu: Opportunities multiply as they are seized
Sun Tzu: To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.
Napoleon: War Is Ninety Percent Information: So All War Is Cyber War
Hannibal: I will either find a way or make one
Wellington: The business of war, is to endeavor to find out what you don’t know by what you do
Track the most disruptive technologies by diving into our categorized index:
Artificial Intelligence Companies – A fast overview of Artificial Intelligence companies we believe are poised to cause the most positive disruption in the enterprise.
Big Data Companies – Reference to the greatest, most disruptive Big Data companies in the tech ecosystem.
Business Intelligence Companies – We assess these to be the Business Intelligence Companies most impactful for delivering real decision advantage.
Cybersecurity Companies – We apply our deep expertise in cybersecurity to assessing the best across multiple categories including:
- CASB
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Deception
- Encryption
- Endpoint Detection and Response
- Governance, Training, Education, Process
- IAM
- Managed Services, Outsourced Security
- Microsegmentation and Container Security
- Network Traffic and Analysis
- SDP
- Security Scanning And Testing
Cloud Computing Companies – We include both platform and software as a service providers, capturing only the most innovative and disruptive.
Collaborative Tool Companies – These are the firms that help humans connect to humans to create, manage and lead.
Infrastructure Companies – Critical enterprise foundations for business agility.
IoT Companies – Internet of Things and Industrial Internet of Things are here. How do you manage them?
Mobile Companies – Help manage, configure, secure and optimize these very powerful capabilities.
Robotics Companies – Including innovations in Robotic Process Automation, Drones, and industrial robotics.
Services Companies – We only track a few, the ones we really know well.
Tech Titans – These are the big players. We track the tech titans closely since their capabilities change continuously.
VC, PE and Finance Companies – Keeping an eye on the investors can give indications of coming developments.
You can also use our topical pages to get up to speed quickly on the current status of the major megatrends. See our pages on Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, Cybersecurity and Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.
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