This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Apple is set to take another turn toward the enterprise—and into competition with the likes of Facebook and Twitter—with an upcoming service called Business Chat. While Apple is set to formally unveil Business Chat during the Worldwide Developer Conference on Friday, a page on its website provides some basic details:
Infosys Nia Makes Enterprises More Efficient, Powered by Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
This offering overview introduces the key capabilities of Infosys Nia, a new Machine Learning- and Artificial Intelligence-powered platform, which affects the way enterprises operate.
Zuora has taken the wraps off Zuora Central, a cloud-based hub for coordinating order-to-cash operations across an enterprise's systems. It's the result of a top-secret project that's been in the works for two years, and it will define the next 10 years of the company, CEO Tien Tzuo said during a keynote at the company's Subscribed conference this week.
To exist at all, let alone prosper any Enterprise has to create something of tangible value in the form of a proposition that will match buyers’ requirements. Digital Markets, by definition, are based on new value propositions, mostly around services more than products, a point exploited by new entrants. Recent events have shown how these circumstances are forcing existing enterprises into competitive re-evaluation of their value proposition, and Go To Market strategy.
At Microsoft Build, their annual developer conference, they emphasized the opportunity that the Microsoft platform (Office 365, Azure, Windows 10, etc.) provides for developers to help redefine personal productivity and team collaboration for hundreds of millions of people.
Here is a quick summary of the key topic areas:
Innovating Travel, Technology, and Consumer Experience | DisrupTV Ep. 64
In Episode 64 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry experts:
Google depends heavily on advertising for its revenue, so the thought of it installing an ad-blocker inside the Chrome web browser might seem counterintuitive at first. But what Google is really out to block—and moreover, prevent from being created in the first place—are advertisements that simply put, are annoying.
Introducing the AstroChart™ of Business Trends for The New C-Suite
Aimed directly at executives, leadership, and key decision makers, Constellation’s brand new AstroChart™ of Business Trends for The New C-Suite provides an accessible visual guide to the highest order business trends and their journey of adoption in the digital enterprise. The vertical axis rates adoption from mainstream to early adopters to bleeding edge. The horizontal axis estimates the impact on an organization’s business model, from incremental to transformational to exponential.
Cisco has been trying to reorient its business around software for years, and may have just taken a step that will prove more important to that goal than any single acquisition or new product innovation.
Steve Wilson talks Identity and Blockchain. What the advantages are (or aren't) over existing systems, the role of Distributed Ledgers, Hyperledger Fabric, and the profitability of these systems facing their pitchmen.
"Amazon is quickly becoming an A.I. company" stated R "Ray" Wang, Chairman and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research on CNBC's Squawk Box in this video clip. He noted that Amazon drives not only in the retail but the cloud computing sectors. It's been using its data and insights to drive recommendations and forecasts and enable it to reach its current position.
SAP Leonardo will harness machine learning to help customers drive automation and innovation. Here’s a closer look at what’s available and what’s coming.
When SAP introduced Leonardo on May 18 at its Sapphire Now event in Orlando, executives insisted that “no single technology can deliver digital innovation on its own.” Yet it’s clear that machine learning is a cornerstone technology that SAP is counting on to help customers come up with innovative new products, new business processes and even new business models.
It's been estimated that there will be 1.8 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs by 2022, even as the number of high-profile attacks and hacks continues to mount and billions of IoT (Internet of things) devices come online. IBM is betting it can help avert this trend by promoting new ways to train the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.
Human-Centered Innovation, Organizational Agility, and Sustainable Transformation | DisrupTV Ep. 63
In Episode 63 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three thought leaders who bring diverse perspectives on innovation, organizational change, and sustainability:
Learn how to be a kickass boss without losing your humanity live from the main stage at Constellation's Connected Enterprise 2017. We are excited to share that Kim Scott, author of “Radical Candor,” will be joining us at this year’s event in Half Moon Bay.
We had the opportunity to attend Ceridian’s yearly analyst meeting in New York, held May 24th till 25th 2017, at the W Union Square in New York. The analyst meeting was very well attended with close to 30 analysts in the audience.
I wonder what the gender ratio was for attendees at this week’s Infosys Confluence in San Francisco? To my eye, it seemed typical of technology events; perhaps at best 15% women in the crowd. And yet Confluence turned out to have the most gender-aware content I have ever seen in an IT conference.
While biometrics are coming into serious vogue for device security, volunteer researchers at the Chaos Computer Club say they've already cracked into Samsung's red-hot Galaxy S8 smartphone, which uses an iris recognition system for security.