Technology & business transformation leaderhttps://germanretana.net/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/ai-and-the-silver-bullet/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/ai-and-the-silver-bullet/Building applications with AI brought me back to Fred Brooks’s “No Silver Bullet.” AI removes much of the accidental work of building software, but the essential questions remain: what to build, how it should work, and what must change for it to make a difference.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/hello-world-again/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/hello-world-again/AI is challenging how I keep learning. My approach so far: start with the business problem I want to solve, then work backward.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:14:28 GMThttps://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/technology-enables-incredible-things-but-only-if-we-understand-it/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/technology-enables-incredible-things-but-only-if-we-understand-it/A summary of my TEDxINCAE talk, with the slides in English: what a health project in rural Guatemala and research with a cloud provider show about the barriers between people and the value of technology.Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:00:25 GMThttps://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/the-economic-value-of-the-cloud-and-its-adoption-in-costa-rica/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/the-economic-value-of-the-cloud-and-its-adoption-in-costa-rica/Cloud Computing, more than a new technology, is a new IT consumption model. It allows using and paying for resources on demand, avoiding any investment in fixed assets. With this model customers can attain tremendous…Tue, 27 May 2014 21:05:27 GMThttps://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/paas-silver-bullet/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/paas-silver-bullet/Developing software is difficult. We may have the best developers in the world, the most agile development processes, and the best coding tools available, and it will continue to be difficult. This is so because of…Sun, 20 Mar 2011 01:00:24 GMThttps://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/the-cloud-as-a-technological-innovation/https://germanretana.net/en/thoughts/the-cloud-as-a-technological-innovation/How can we frame the cloud phenomenon within the technological innovation literature stream? Can we say it’s a naturally evolving creative destruction process where entrants offer services technologically superior to…Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:00:07 GMT