Data-Driven Investor: How to survive a digital tsunami?
You can survive the digital storm without giving up the traditional values that have been with your company since its creation. However, you need to be able to communicate such values to the customers whose consumer experience is increasingly tied to digital culture.
Machine Ecology
The earth is sick, and the causes of its disease lie in our choices, our myopia, and our lack of imagination. Climate change, with deforestation, melting glaciers, mass extinctions and carbon emissions, is the biggest problem of the century. If you struggle to understand what is ruining our planet, perhaps you should look for clues in artificial intelligence.
Your face may attract a lot of interest in the coming years
What are we going to do with our faces? As hard as it may be to accept, we may someday have to consider covering them with masks before we venture outside. To prevent that from happening, it seems advisable even today to support various initiatives aimed at regulating the phenomenon, at least to some extent.
Politicians and AI. Can national strategies succeed?
For at least five years now, the world has been using artificial intelligence in the economy, education, science and in general public interest. Inevitably, the governments of many countries could no longer avoid reflecting deeply on their prior AI experience and the research into its essence.
What will life be like in the “brave new world”?
By now, urban areas run partly by algorithms can be found on all continents. And yet, Google’s idea to move nearly every aspect of a city district’s operation to a server is a whole new quality.
Is it possible to regulate AI and do we need such regulation?
I do not believe that attempts to regulate artificial intelligence are an unnecessary nuisance or a curb on the free distribution of ideas and business freedom. A technology that develops beyond our control and that self-improves without a programmer’s intervention, becomes powerful indeed.
Cognitive computing – a skill-set widely considered to be the most vital manifestation of artificial intelligence
Will computers ever amaze us again in any way? Some potential for amazement may lie in cognitive computing – a skill-set widely considered to be the most vital manifestation of AI.
Generation C. “C” for connected
What consequences of digitization should a modern company reckon with? What should it do to survive in a market swept by a digital revolution? Described below are some key elements one might want to consider in designing a digitization strategy.
Data Driven Investor: Will AI save the labor market?
To show that the question in the title can be answered affirmatively, I am going to explore the way smart technologies help resolve social problems.
Innovative use of AI in the financial industry
The innovative use of artificial intelligence in the financial industry is no passing fad. It is a must and a trend that seems to have no alternatives. Algorithms improve financial management and product selection for customers and automate the work of financial institutions.
Data Driven Investor: Tech Trends 2020
The trends I am describing will have a spill-over effect and feed into other trends, including those left out from this year’s selection, such as the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles and blockchain.
Alibaba Cloud: What’s More Valuable, User Experience or Our Data?
Monetization of customer experience will progress at an increasing pace. Commercialization of this trend began around 2000 when the so-called internet bubble happened. Coincidence?
Data Driven Investor: Startups and Corporations: What can they learn from each other?
We live in an age that puts a lot of store by innovation, flexibility and creativity in business. These values are most commonly mentioned by technology start-ups which, despite their small sizes, have a huge appetite for market success.
Data Driven Investor: What’s More Valuable: User Experience or Our Data?
The world has forced us to democratize the handling of tools that rely on sophisticated technologies. The rule, therefore, is that simpler is better.
Data Driven Investor: In the Digital Economy You are For Sale
Today, the world’s economies increasingly rely on the production of intangible goods. So, what should businesses do to become more competitive in an information-driven world?
Data Driven Investor: Time We Talked to Our Machines
Today, we can see creatures made by Boston Dynamics jump and run and perform acrobatics. Robots have become as agile as we are. In fact, AI has been acting ever more human-like, and not only in robotics.
Quantum technology and quantum algorithms are evolving. What will they bring? I hope a lot of good.
What has made quantum computers so exciting lately? Perhaps the fact we are approaching the limits of computing capabilities of the kinds of transistor-based machines we have long been using. They are limited by the laws of physics, which prevent us from packing more processors on chipboard.
The Moguldom Nation: Will Blockchain Transform The Stock Market?
The rules that govern trades in financial assets have changed little over the past two or three centuries. Some say those rules have worked relatively well (apart from a few world-shattering crashes now and then). Does it need to change? Should it change? Can it change?
ODAILY China: Will blockchain transform the stock market?
Blockchain can make it easier to transfer property rights and other assets by reducing transactional costs and boosting trust between investors. But can it be used by the world’s largest stock exchanges?
Unlock – Blockchain will revolutionize Stock Exchanges
Today’s investor relies on a traditional system of buying, selling and accounting for transactions that are old enough to be called ossified. The system generates considerable costs and adds to the time needed to close transactions. This is because trading in financial assets requires multiple entities arranged in a complex web of intermediaries, settlement systems and business partners.
Four Grim Dreams of Great Technology
Are there limits to this technological universe, which we’ve grown to take for granted? Are there serious warnings looming on the horizon that people are choosing to ignore? Here are a few threats affecting nearly the entire world of technology.
The Quantum Internet
Quantum computing and the quantum internet represent the most fascinating frontier of information science – extremely promising and full of yet-to-be-unraveled secrets. For global cybersecurity, quantum networks would be a real game-changer.
Unfortunately, many business managers still think of AI as something that will be impossible for them to understand
I believe that knowing the fundamental principles that underlie the new technologies can boost managers’ confidence in them and help them make their companies more innovative.
Are we ready for military AI?
Will Artificial Intelligence weapons soon be able to launch military operations independently of human input?
Want to know who the leader is? Ask him to decide
Every person makes hundreds of decisions daily, most automatically and without reflection. The decisions made in organizations also are mostly routine, practically automatic.
Data Driven Investor: The Technologies Poised to Change the World in 2019
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence will continue to be made and be widely reported. Autonomous vehicles will proliferate, and it would be good to see serious, in-depth articles about industry regulation rather than last year’s sensational coverage focusing on accidents and disasters.
Data Driven Investor: Will blockchain trigger a shakedown of the global financial system?
The financial crash of 2008 demonstrated (to some) that large financial institutions need to be closely watched and strictly regulated. The meltdown some believe also demonstrated the need for an alternative to complex, abuse-prone financial instruments held by few, and understood by even fewer.
How to handle DATA so that you do not go crazy?
Information and data are getting more market value. Therefore, how should the company behave in order to strengthen competitiveness? What benefits can individual customers derive from a world dominated by huge data sets?
Dear citizen, blockchain will change your life!
Blockchain promises big business benefits. And what about ordinary citizens and voters? Could this technology work well in public administration?
Shared economy – sounds like a utopia? Probably so
Imagine an economic system in which concepts such as profit, margin and supply-and-demand were replaced by trust, participation, sharing, and the responsible, sustainable use of resources.
The power of collective leadership
New leadership paradigm should be conceived as a continuous and collective process taking place within a network of employees and managers. The organization’s thinking would change from “who are our leaders?” To “what conditions does the organization need to meet for leadership to effectively strengthen emerging networks and relationships?”
Smart contracts on blockchain can revolutionize contracting mechanisms
One of the important features of the blockchain is that it eliminates intermediaries by directly connecting the parties to the transaction. Blockchain can be used to conclude contracts that would not require interference or confirmation by either party.
Data Driven Investor: Will There Be an Internet of Electricity?
Today’s energy users, who are still dependent on large distribution networks, will slowly become prosumers, free to choose how they will use their own resources, and perhaps contribute to creating the rules that govern the energy industry. We’re not there yet, but we will be within the next few years.
Organizational change begins with me
They teach us that a significant role in the transformation of an organization is played by clearly defined business goals, the relationship of a leader with people and well-chosen communication tools. And although I subscribe to this approach, I personally emphasize something else - individual experiences.
Dear Voter! Blockchain will change your life!
Blockchain can definitely affect social organizations. Can the new technology be used successfully in public administration as well? Will it help governments inspire trust in citizens and make the latter feel they are better represented in public institutions?
What is direction of transformation of the financial sector?
For centuries, trade has become an extremely complicated process, the complexity of which has deepened globalization - at the moment everyone can trade with everyone, anyone, anywhere in the world. If we change the perspective a bit, we will see that each transaction is de facto information.
The times of authoritarian bosses are over. What determines the success of the leader today?
Today, communication is important, the ability to discover potential in the team members, the partner flow of ideas between colleagues. A contemporary leader inspires and motivates others through his own commitment and passion.
Goals, relationships, experience? What plays the most important role in the transformation of the organization?
Without much problems we will find numerous studies on how to effectively manage change in the organization. I am convinced that a change in the organization that I want or intend - as a leader - to carry out, must also be based on personal foundations.
The potential of Artificial Intelligence and automation bring new challenges to contemporary leaders
Fixed business models in the modern digital economy have gone down in history, and the potential of artificial intelligence and automation put new challenges ahead of today's leaders in the organization.
Seven tips how to use Artificial Intelligence to take your company to another level
Here are a few tips which I hope will be helpful to transform your business through technology.
Business Insider: Will quantum computers enable us to defy the laws of physics?
Computers depend on the algorithms and hardware and their capabilities and limitations. Imagine what will happen if you manage to remove these restrictions forever? What would then the capabilities of modern quantum computers be?
We test our confidence in Artificial Intelligence and study the ethics lesson
Proponents of autonomous vehicles often cite the results of repeatedly repeated research results, which show that for 90-95 percent. The driver is responsible for accidents, not technology. Interestingly, modern technology - raising disputes and controversies - makes us think about basic values such as good and evil.
Myths of Artificial Intelligence
This text deals with the myths that revolve around Artificial Intelligence - in the media, in the network and in the minds of all of us. I dare say that this fear is highly unjustified.
How far we are from the global financial order change?
Perhaps everything that happens is a repetition of the history of Linux, which has already abandoned the image of the system created by the alternative and went to commercial ventures. Similarly, it will be with blockchain - after a time of heated discussions, it will become a standard for large companies, banks and even governments.
That is why leadership development programs do not bring the intended results
Today's leaders need many tools to help them lead or manage their increasingly complex organizations. Contemporary leaders also arrange their own continuing education programs, arranging external trainings, participating in webinars, tuning in to TED talks, and following the achievements of men and women they have identified as gurus.
Cognitive Computing – the most serious manifestation of Artificial Intelligence
In essence, cognitive computing is a set of features and properties that make machines ever more intelligent and, by the same token, more people-friendly. It can be viewed as a set of skills often treated as the most serious manifestation of artificial intelligence.
FORBES: The energy industry may be a more supportive of blockchain than the financial system
There is a common believe that blockchain for the world of energy transactions and settlements can be what the Internet has become for global communication. Like the network protocols, will it lead to the transformation of the energy industry?
How far are we to ethical machines?
Will we be safe when surrounded by machines? Cautious estimates say that in 2025 the share of autonomous cars in the total car market will increase to 13% and reach USD 42 billion.
The new world of quantum computers
What will the world look like in which every information will be available in the blink of an eye? In the blink of an eye, but of course not for everyone, only those who will be equipped with quantum computers.
Machine Learning. So what is the computer’s ability to learn?
It is not only people that learn from experience by acquiring knowledge from the outside world. We are now witnessing a time when sophisticated information technologies are also emerging from infancy.
Is the blockchain really as safe as they say?
My article in BrandsIT: Is blockchain really a safe technology, as claimed by its followers and promoters? The optimism of those who trust it can slightly weaken information about the possibilities of quantum computers.
Blockchain has the potential to become a useful tool in almost every industry
An article in BrandsIT: Realms where blockchain should work its fastest and best because of its structural features.
YouTube interview: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, technology and its impact on us, people
I have been watching for years how technologies change our lives. I believe that the next wave of development will be driven by technologies and trends such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Robotization and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Blockchain.
Norbert Biedrzycki asks in FORBES: When will we stop being human?
I still remember the question asked by my friend in the first year of high school. Listen, what do you think the monkey felt, the first monkey who became the first man?
Business Insider: Authoritarian model of management in the digital economy
Nowadays, being an organization leader can be fascinating and difficult at the same time. Authorities in a rapidly changing reality are not easy, and the power of a person at the head of a company is certainly not given once and for all.
Business Insider: An outstanding or just average leader. What distinguishes them?
Risky decisions today are decisions that will take into account all customer behavior available in each of the possible sources, including social networking sites, geolocation data, watched videos or IoT device in his home.
Business Insider: In the era of digital economics, the versatility of a leader is worth its weight in gold
Every contemporary organization must undergo a change process leading to full digitization. Some people may treat it only as an element of adaptation to the contemporary market, and others will see it as a chance for a revolutionary change in the scale of operations.
Business Insider: Artificial Intelligence will generate a lot of new jobs
In the common opinion, robotization will lead to the destruction of the labor market in the future. Changes in this area are inevitable, I do not think that they must have a clearly negative overtone.
Business Insider: Morality of algorithms and ethical code of the leader in the artificial intelligence era
The challenge for the modern leader is to convince both clients and colleagues that the new technology will not be self-destructive. That everything really depends on us.
Is a strong leader in an organization equal to an innovative strategy?
Organizations in the entire business world know that without a strong leader in their own ranks, there is no chance of implementing an innovative strategy.
Artificial Intelligence will do everything for us – say enthusiasts
Article in BrandsIT: Man will become unnecessary - the pessimists who predict the destruction of humanity from the hands of conscious machines answer.
Business Insider: Ledger of all ledgers. This is what blockchain is and why it will change everything
A distributed, secure, widely available and trustworthy database. There is definitely something amazing and unbelievable in this.
FORBES: Will a quantum computer become a curse of cryptocurrency?
Theoretical foundations of quantum computers were described in the 1980s of the last century. It is only recently that technology has caught up with theory, allowing it to build the first quantum computers. Will their appearance cause the blockchain to become obsolete?
There is nothing to be afraid of. Automation is not just about removing jobs. It’s also creating new ones
Article in BarandsIT: In general opinion, robotics will lead to the destruction of the labor market in the future. Although I am sure that changes in this area are inevitable, I do not think that they must have a clearly negative connotation.
Reality merges with the digital world. AR is not just Pokémon Go
Will traditional interfaces be unnecessary and go to a museum of technology? Perhaps a breakthrough in the development of the latest technologies would be to eliminate the monitor and keyboard that today mediate in access to information?
FORBES: And when will your lawyer be a robot?
In my opinion, it is not enough to be aware that reality has accelerated, and that legal codes are aging at a rapid pace. Politicians, legislators and lawyers now have a great responsibility for changes that may or should not be made.
Who will gain, and who will lose in the digital revolution?
Article in BrandsIT: The changes we are witnessing today are being driven by the growing use of technology in everyday life. Artificial intelligence (AI) and self-learning machines are already altering the ways decisions are made and information communicated.
When will we stop being biological people?
Intellectual currents that accompany the development of modern technology are as fascinating as technology itself.
FORBES: Artificial Intelligence is new electricity?
The view that humanity is at the threshold of a great breakthrough is spreading and sounds less and less fantastic. What would he depend on?
FORBES: Sharing economy – utopia or future business?
Imagine a social system in which such economic categories as profit, margin, demand and supply are replaced by values such as trust, participation, sharing, deepening relationships, or sustainable resource management.
People will lose their jobs as a result of the digital revolution. And you?
Estimates say that as a result of the digital revolution more than 500 million people will lose their jobs. What skills will be key in the future? What groups of people will gain and what will they lose on the technological revolution?
Will robots change the world?
Article in BrandsIT: Algorithm-based technologies, machine learning and process automation have come to a point in their development where morality-related questions and answers may seriously affect the development of all of our modern technologies and even our entire civilization.
OUTSOURCING MAGAZINE: The blockchain may be a threat to the financial system’s status quo
All this is possible due to application of blockchain technology.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Will the guaranteed basic income provide us with a happy senility?
By 2050, more than 250 million people will lose their jobs. Ensuring a basic income for citizens will become a political issue.
HBR: Will the machine become a perfect lover?
Our life is not just work, but also the search for intimacy, emotions, communication with others. And all this involves our erotica. Can a artificially intelligent machine become a perfect lover?
BUSINESS INSIDER: Here are movies that show all our new technologies related fears
Advanced technology has been extremely alluring to the film industry and, at times, has been embodied in an evil character. Clearly, in the coming years it will unseat aliens in their role as the prime source of viewer terror.
FORBES: Will robots begin to sin? Humanity will soon have to make unequivocal decisions
Our daily choices between good and evil are automatic, often unnoticed by us. In the world of Artificial Intelligence, the issue of morality becomes increasingly problematic.
The biggest IT companies in Poland in 2016 by ITwiz BEST100
Atos won in a number of categories and reached the highest places in the annual ITWiz Best 100 IT Companies in Poland.
Atos again on leading positions in the biggest IT reports in Poland
Another time Atos won in many categories and is ranked on highest positions of annual reports prepared by two most important IT magazines in Poland: Computerworld and ITWiz.
Banking and Finance Forum. Interview on the future of blockchain
Interview. Impact of blockchain on financial sector and vision of bank of the future.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Artificial Intelligence Sexual Revolution
Our life is driven by a search for intimacy, emotions and communication with others. And that's all there is in sex. Is there a next wave of a sexual revolution but this time driven by a Artificial Intelligence?
FORBES: Living brains that breathes Artificial Intelligence
Despite the fact that artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, the internet of things and the feats of IBM’s computer Watson are the work of people.
BUSINESS INSIDER: They are terrifying, but are they justified? Here are 4 myths about artificial intelligence
Big Brother has always been watching us. After all, he is online, meaning he can access our e-mails, bank statements, phone calls and social media posts.
FORBES: Cognitive computing, or how artificial intelligence works
Cognitive Computing – a set of skills often treated as the most serious manifestation of artificial intelligence.
BUSINESS INSIDER: How artificial brains save the Earth
Information technologies make it easy and, in many cases, they make it possible to implement interesting pro-ecological ventures.
Harward Business Review – How to discover talents within your organization?
Almost in every sector of the economy competitive advantage is gained by companies employing the most talented employees. Traditional methods of identifying them within the organization are failing, but there are ways to find talents hidden deep within the organization.
FORBES: Ethics of autonomous cars
Programmers involved in developing algorithms for use in autonomous vehicles should prepare to have their work become the subject of a heated ethical debate rather soon.
Modern medicine observes the rise of the latest technologies
Modern medicine confronts such challenges with attention and hope, even a growing appetite as it observes the rise of the latest technologies. Doctors, researchers and patients have a good reasons to be upbeat about the future.
Technological Einstein. Everything you need to know about quantum computers
The computational power of classical computers appears to be limited. Therefore everyone whose sights are set on boundless technological advances turns their attention to a quantum computing.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Computers coming of age. Time to machine independence
The machine learning technology proves that today’s computers are acquiring ever more astonishing skills. Perhaps this is a beginning of a Artificial SuperIntelligence.
FORBES: The Internet of Things
By 2020, there is going to be in between 25 and 50 billion of them. Devices connected to the Internet of Things increasingly dominate our lives.
V edition SmartCity Forum
Smart City Forum is a response to the transformation, which takes place on a global scale, relating to the construction and operation of intelligent cities.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Can a man still exists, if is wiped-out by computer?
Unfortunately, data processing errors can lead to situations with dangerous social consequences.
Interview on the future of new technologies: blockchain, bitcoin, artificial intelligence
Impact of future technology on finance, energy and car industry.
FORBES: How to prepare your company for “Generation C”?
Surviving in the digital age, future-proofing your business. Members of generation C are particularly well adjusted to living in the digital world. It is natural for them to believe they will be able to stay connected indefinitely.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Matrix, Dolly the Sheep and bacteria of the future… What is synthetic biology?
Synthetic biology is gaining popularity. From a niche field of science, it is evolving into one that draws much attention from industry and business.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Cashless society through cryptocurrency
The fundamental idea about the blockchain is to create new blocks for transaction sets by arranging them into blockchains and sending them into the network.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Blockchain – the ultimate financial crash
Blockchain is not humanity’s last word in creating decentralized financial systems that are globally accessible and independent of state governments, stock exchanges, financial institutions, banks and other middlemen.
BUSINESS INSIDER: Blockchain – the Holy Grail of the financial system?
Blockchain could reshape the basic principles of trade, influence economies and change the way people see trust and ownership. It may, but will it manage to? Will cryptocurrencies really revolutionize the financial system?
FORBES: What a machine will think when it looks us in the eye
Artificial intelligence will do all of our work for us – it will even find a cure for cancer, claim AI research enthusiasts.
BUSINESS INSIDER: What are bitcoins? All you need to know
A cryptocurrency with a potential to become perfect money. Where has it come from, what is it worth and what can you buy with it?
BUSINESS INSIDER: What is blockchain? All you need to know
A system that can't be cracked and has the potential to transform industries.
FORBES: A hidden social networks lurks within your company. Find it!
Formal structures no longer do the job. Managers today are becoming increasingly aware of the value of informal networks – the relationships that actually drive their companies.
BUSINESS INSIDER: End of the world we know
Any company that goes digital is inevitably looking to dramatically transform its structure. Its IT unit does not necessarily have to take over the helm and run its operations. The head of IT does not need to become a guru known for singlehanded decision-making.
FORBES: Fall of the hierarchy. Who really rules in your company?
Today’s hierarchical business management models require major changes or at least some degree of tweaking.
Passion – I work because I like it
Passion is the key value in our work life. If you lack passion sooner or later your work results will be unsatisfactory regardless of the field or position.
Atos does not exclude acquisitions in Poland
Atos Group, which worldwide grows through acquisitions, does not exclude acquisitions of other companies also in Poland – said in the interview for Polish Press Agency (PAP) Norbert Biedrzycki, Chairman of The Board of Atos Poland.
BUSINESS INSIDER: How machines think
The development of artificial intelligence in robotics is not as unlikely as you might think. A growing number of technologies enable machines to observe the environment in which they operate and choose the best course of action.
Atos Poland ranked highest in TOP200 report
Atos Poland ranked highest in three rankings of this year's prestigious Computerworld TOP 200 report on Polish IT market.
FORBES: Big Data: new player in sports
Athlete tracking sensors in playing fields are increasingly popular in stadiums. Big Data has come to sports and gained many ardent fans.
SmartCity Forum
Smart City Forum is a response to the transformation, which takes place on a global scale, relating to the construction and operation of intelligent cities.
SmartCity platform – from ticketing to urban servicess system
My comments to Miroslaw Konkel’s article “Good spsce in Smart Cities" published in Puls Biznesu and referring to SmartCity solutions.
Supercomputers, Satellites and Olympics
Interview for Computerworld magazine. Atos in Poland strategy going forward.
An video interview for Inwestor.Newseria
Release of the market, admission of different telecom operators and natural competition.
Nearly 1150 places in Poland still with no internet access
An interview for Gazeta Warszawska/ Newseria. The problem with internet access in Poland is a result of geographical factors, technical feasibility and commercial business case.
Atos Poland: We increase employment, extend the offer and scale of operations
ITwiz. Interview with Norbert Biedrzycki, new President of the Management Board at Atos Poland and Vice President System Integration for CEE Region at Atos.
ABC Data – number one IT company in Poland
In 2013, ABC Data reported a nearly twofold increase in profit compared to 2012. Group grew faster than the market in all relevant geographic and product segments, reaching revenues of PLN 4.5 billion, which enabled the Company to maintain the title of The biggest IT company in Poland.
ABC Data posts strong results for 2013
The company’s EBIDTA increased to 18,9m EUR which translates into a 35.3% growth when compared with 2012. The group’s revenue for 2013 rose by 31% to 1.15bn EUR.
ABC Data entering German market: interview with CEO Norbert Biedrzycki
Building B2B, B2C marketplace across CEE countries as one of strategic pillars of ABC Data geographical expansion (interview in German).
IT distribution Central Eastern Europe market evolution in 2013
IT distribution Central Eastern Europe market evolution in 2013.
Computerworld TOP200: The most influential people in the Polish IT
Hostile takeover by major competitor is a theoretical exercise many CEOs of listed companies will never face in a real life, and not everyone is experiencing it firsthand.
Norbert Biedrzycki chosen the Player of the Year according to the Forbes magazine
Norbert Biedrzycki, Player of the Year 2012 according to the Forbes magazine in the B2B category – Production and Services for Companies.