Vijay Vijayasankar

Misalignment and Policy by Lapse – A deadly duo

It is Friday the 13th today – maybe the best day to write this post after all . First I need to turn back the clock to the 1980s. In my teens, the most popular car in India was ” The Ambassador”. It was so popular that the company just did some weak spot weldingContinue reading “Misalignment and Policy by Lapse – A deadly duo”

Big data and systems that need to go around in circles

I had a very interesting conversation with my seat mate in the flight to SFO early today . He works as a manager at an airline, and grew up the ranks . Currently he is exploring ways of “learning faster” given his team was having a hard time with baggage handling and they want toContinue reading “Big data and systems that need to go around in circles”

Big Data : Platform vs Applications

It does not matter what vendors say about big data – end of the day, customers need to adopt and expand for big data to live up to its promise. If they don’t adopt – big data will just go the same way as many other passing fads that had the potential to changeContinue reading “Big Data : Platform vs Applications”