There are two big strategies companies should employ all the time: growth and focus. Growth is about exploring new capabilities, new markets and new customers.

Airlines bleeding money. Your favourite restaurants closing after repeated lockdowns. COVID is killing jobs. But even after a vaccine saves us, people will still be talking about another threat that didn’t go away: the possibility of AI stealing all the jobs.

A politically-incorrect reality TV showman takes the White House. America is in shock -- and following the election, it turns out faulty voting machines were involved.

It’s the plot from Man of the Year, a 2006 film starring Robin Williams - but change a detail or two and it might sound familiar in 2020, weeks after a US election.

Everybody knows -- the development of AI-powered robots will put most people out of work. Right?

It turns out that everyone may be wrong. At least, so far.

While the US is talking about breaking up big tech, the Chinese government acts. This week, there was one highly anticipated IPO - the BIG ONE. It looks like it ain't going to happen anytime soon.

Apple won’t be able to compete head-to-head with Google in search overnight. But the fact that it is trying? This is the interesting move, for a company known more for its brilliantly-designed products. Just as interesting is the answer to “why now?”

The US Department of Justice moved against Google because of a perceived monopoly as a search engine. A monopoly is not the real problem with Google - or Facebook, or Amazon, etc. There is a much serious issue, the lack of transparency. If the government was going to make a move, it should have been on that basis.

The US Defence Department is finally going all in on digital transformation. With a budget of 738 billion USD supporting 3.2 million people and as the largest employer in the world, the US army is now calling itself a “data-centric organization.”

The IT goliath has announced that as of next year they’ll split into two public companies. “IBM” will pivot to a cloud services company by the end of 2021 -- with a focus on hybrid clouds. Their older IT services will remain under a new company called “NewCo.”

I was talking with Eric Siegel, PhD., founder of Predictive Analytics World, a conference about machine learning and predictive analytics. We began by talking about the importance of data and predictive analytics, while trying to separate what’s real from the hype.