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Increase your IT Funding by Drawing More, a Core Competency for Every CIO

Richie Etwaru

April 17, 2014

A few months ago, Jay Ferro and I (Chief Information Officer at American Cancer Society) did a webinar with Frost and Sullivan.We touched on communication skills, culture, getting innovation right, getting people right, and learning the commercial and value oriented lingo.Something profound about communicating value as a CIO dawned on me after I subconsciously somewhat bold made the following statement:

A Guide to the New Actions and Objects of the Digital Workplace

Alan Lepofsky

April 17, 2014

In the Constellation Research report, Segmenting Audiences By Digital Proficiency, we introduced the idea of categorising people by a combination of their comfort and skill level with technology instead of by age. One of the things that contributes to a person's knowledge and comfort is an understanding of the current terminology used in the digital workplace, in this case specifically social networking.

Constellation Publishes “Big Privacy”, the New Data Privacy Protocol for Big Data

Courtney Sato

April 16, 2014

“Big Privacy” calls on Big Data businesses to exercise restraint and transparency, and offer consumers fair value for data Constellation Research announced today the publication of “Big Privacy Rises to the Challenges of Big Data” by Constellation Vice President and Principal Analyst, Steve Wilson. This ‘Big Idea’ research report introduces “Big Privacy” - a new pact between data miners and end users that calls on digital businesses to exercise restraint and transparency in their collection activities, and offer end users fair value for their data.

Infor moves to the cloud with innovation and (micro) vertical flavor

Holger Mueller

April 15, 2014

[Progress Report]We had the opportunity to attend the Infor Innovation Summit in the company’s beautiful Manhattan headquarters. It was impressive to see that the complete management team took the time to spend the day with a group of 50 or so analysts. My takeaways: From Soho to Gramercy Park, HCM Leads, From (Microsoft) to Open Source and AWS...

Transitioning Your Marketing and Customer Experience Strategies to Digital

Courtney Sato

April 15, 2014

"Marketing is the first line of customer engagement." What does that even mean? Join us to find out. It's no secret that the proliferation of digital consumer and enterprise technology is driving dramatic disruption of traditional business models. Position yourself and your organization to take advantage of these technology-driven paradigm shifts. Join R "Ray" Wang, Paul Greenberg, Natalie Petouhoff and Peter Kim for a webinar on April 17, 2014 11am PT/ 2pm ET for a discussion about how new technologies disrupt traditional marketing and customer experience models. The session will close with actionable advice for marketers and customer officers regarding the best methods in which to transition their organizations to a digitally-focused business model.

Big Privacy: The New Standard for Big Data Privacy

Steve Wilson

April 14, 2014

Big Data promises tremendous benefits for a great many stakeholders but the potential gains are jeopardised by the excesses of a few. Many think the law has not kept pace with technology, and that digital innovators are free to do what they like with any data they can get their hands on. But technologists repeatedly underestimate the strength of conventional data protection laws and regulations. Enter "Big Privacy", the new standard for big data privacy protection as conceived by Constellation Research. This standard calls for a fresh compact between data miners and end users regarding the use of data. This compact requests that Big Data businesses exercise restraint, transparency, and offer consumers fair value for their data.

Ultimate’s UltiConnect - Off to a great start, but the road(map) is long

Holger Mueller

April 14, 2014

[Event Report] My top 3 takeaways from the Day 1 keynote have been blogged already here – so let’s look at the additional takeaways from UltiConnect.

Research Summary: Economic Trends Exacerbate Digital Business Disruption And Digital Transformation (The Futurist Framework Part 3)

R "Ray" Wang

April 14, 2014

Constellation Applies A Futurist Framework To Guide 2014 Outlook and Beyond Constellation’s research team uses a tried and true futurist framework that looks at the political, economic, societal, technological, environmental and legislative (PESTEL) shifts ahead (see Figure 1). The PESTEL model is used to synthesize the major trends and provides guidance on how Constellation approaches its seven key business themes over the next 2 to 3 years in: