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Ultracrepidarianism in the Age of AI: When Ignorance Learns to Sound Intelligent
There is a Latin-derived word for the habit of giving opinions beyond your competence: ultracrepidarianism. It refers to the shoemaker…
The Scary Takeover: The Day Your AI Tool Became Your Boss
We love talking about AI transformation. Keynotes, roadmaps, pilots, proof-of-concepts. Big words, bold ambitions. Every conference has a slot for…
TenneT, The Backbone of the Economy Under Strain, But Cannot Be Allowed to Break
What TenneT’s 2025 Annual Report Tells Us About the Dutch High-Voltage Grid: the Backbone on Which Our Digital Economy Rests.…
Your Innovation Pilots Are a Graveyard.
Time to Stop, Bury them with a distinct Ceremony. Most innovation pilots in large organisations are not experiments. They are…
Stop Saying You Want to Hire People Better Than You
“Hire people who are better than you” is one of those management statements that sounds wise, generous, and mature. It…
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework, definitely not a Sleeping Pill
Let’s be honest: most EU policy documents read as if they were written by a committee of lawyers who drank…
Enough: Time to Stop Doing these Stupid Things at Work
Last Tuesday, a group of colleagues and I spent 15 minutes brainstorming. That short session gave us a painfully clear…
5 IoT Trends Confirming Its Maturity in 2024
In my experience, the world of IoT is shifting towards a more mature and mainstream technology. Almost every new physical…
Taming the IoT Spaghetti: Unraveling the Complexity of IoT Architecture with Pasta Metaphors
the ever-expanding realm of the Internet of Things (IoT), organizations are increasingly embracing interconnected devices to gather and exchange data.…
How I Embrace Failure: The Unseen Path to Success
Looking at my experience, my failures stand out in my memory. It is a biological principle to take painful moments…
Real-Time Data: The Critical Enabler of the Energy Transition
The energy transition is one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time. At its core lies a deceptively simple…
Do you have a digital twin or an imaginary friend?
n the realm of interconnected devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), the term “digital twin” often finds its way…
PowerWeb Lecture: Building IOT Capabilities for energy transition and digital twin at scale
Abstract: The energy transition in the Netherlands will effectively migrate energy towards less reliable sources like wind and solar. Next…
I busted 12 Myths about IoT
Internet of Things (IoT) is for many technology enthusiasts the single most important thing that has ever happened. The impact…
Data Platforms and Data Lakes: Data Mesh puts Business Back in the Lead
The current method of providing data services using data lakes often leads to highly specialized, siloed teams of data engineers…
Data is the new Uranium
Inspired by the tweet of Filippo Valsorda I want to debate the analogy “Data is the new oil”. I think this analogy…
Who is responsible when Artificial Intelligence fails?
I am a heavy user of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I often do not realize I am using them and,…
Everybody is good at their own job, and at everybody else’s job
We are all good at our own jobs. We had extensive training, education or are autodidacts. Unfortunately, we sometimes are…
Stop teaching our children career skills; Teach them life skills
The rise of robots, algorithms, and machine learning will free us humans from mandatory labor. Finally, we will be able to…
Stop being so Agile !!!
Last week I visited a customer of mine. He showed me around in his new office and explained to me…
Why the Myers-Briggs Test (MBTI) Is Misleading, Harmful, and Poorly Suited for Workplace Decisions
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the best-known personality tests in the world. It is widely used in…
Treat Your Team Like Children, and They’ll Start Acting Like Children
I’ll share an example from my own experience as a micromanager. I was organizing an event about a new and…
Why Static Specialization is the Silent Killer of Your Career
For decades, the golden rule of career success was simple: Specialization. Becoming a specialist was your moat. It differentiated you…
What is Slow Management?
Henry Mintzberg: “I’m not a human resource, I’m a human being!” Slow Management is a reaction to the cold, Anglo-Saxon…