This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Google Cloud Accelerates Movement To Enterprise, Mass Improvements Seen, Much More Required Ahead
Arguably the second or third event for the Google Cloud team brought 25,000 prospects, customers, influencers to Moscone Center for Google Next on July 23rd to 27th, 2018. Customers could see notable improvements in not only the investment made into the event, but also more partner presence at the event. Key takeaways include:
Excellence & Leadership Reimagined: Tom Peters on Soft Skills, Culture & What Lasts | DisrupTV Ep. 116
In Episode 116 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang (Principal Analyst & Founder of Constellation Research) and Vala Afshar (Chief Digital Evangelist at Salesforce) welcome one of the most influential voices in modern management:
It is evident in 2018 now more than ever before that a new breed of executive leader has emerged among the digital ranks of the world's leading organizations. To better understand and learn from this emerging type of contemporary leadership, we've analyzed the mindset of this new type of leader, which we've dubbed the New C-Suite, over the last few years.
Google Cloud announcements bring deep learning and big data analytics beyond data scientists, but enterprises will want more.
If last week’s Google Next 2018 event is any indication, Google Cloud is growing quickly. Registrations for the July 23-26 event topped 25,000, and actual attendance easily doubled the 10,000 at Google Next 2017. That’s good, but if this public cloud is going to catch up with also-fast-growing rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, Google is going to have to play to its strengths.
New deadline August 15, 2018
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The Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize leaders and teams who use disruptive technolgies to transform their organizations.
This week Google held their annual user conference Google Cloud Next. The event covers the entire range of Google offerings, but my focus was primarily on the Gsuite family of collaboration products.
Here are my key takeaways:
After spending time with executives from both IBM and HCL, as well as having discussions with several IBM Business Partners, here are some of my thoughts on the current state of Notes and Domino, and the opportunity available.
Mastering Startup Growth & Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 113
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the dynamics of startup growth, venture capital, and innovation:
Tableau’s Empirical acquisition is its latest move toward machine-augmented analytics. Here’s a look at the company’s ‘smart’ features.
Tableau last month announced the acquisition of Empirical Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup with an automated discovery and analysis engine designed to spot influencers, key drivers and exceptions in data. It was Tableau’s second acquisition over the last year aimed at accelerating so-called “smart” capabilities and part of a larger push that began in 2016.
Innovating Healthcare IT | DisrupTV Ep. 112
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of healthcare IT:
As Organizations Move Faster, Here’s How to Transform the People Side
This report defines what enterprise acceleration is about, breaking it down both for people leaders and the human capital management (HCM) function of an enterprise.
Enterprises have always been faced with competition, as competition is key mechanic of success in the free market economy. But the need for adopting and reacting to the competition and creating new creative strategies has never been as high as it is today. Digital Transformation has substantially changed the game here, forcing enterprises to move faster towards a new objective, while having less room for error – than ever before.
Innovating Government Services | DisrupTV Ep. 111
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of government IT:
Leap, Lead, and Innovate: Thriving in a Copycat World | DisrupTV Ep. 110
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of innovation and leadership:
Design Thinking, Mindful Leadership & the Future of Work | DisrupTV Ep. 109
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of work and leadership:
Alteryx adds repeatability, automation features so analysts can streamline data prep, step up predictive analysis.
Alteryx eliminates tedious and time-consuming data-prep work so users can spend more time on innovative, advanced analytical work.
Brand, Innovate, Automate: Thriving in the Digital Era | DisrupTV Ep. 108
In this episode, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with a distinguished panel of guests to discuss the evolving landscape of innovation and leadership: