This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Revolutionizing Sports Business with Data-Driven Strategies | DisrupTV Ep. 57
In Episode 57 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
As interest in blockchain/distributed ledger technologies grew in recent years, a number of powerful industry consortia have emerged. Two of the most prominent are Hyperledger, which is hosted at the Apache Software Foundation, and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. (The latter was only formed in February, but Ethereum already had a strong developer community.)
This morning SAP surprised us with the news of re-organizing its executive board, largely initiated by the departure of Steve Singh. As often with organizational press releases – you have to read it from the bottom up, but we will follow our customary process of dissecting the press release.
In my last blog "IBM Blockchain as a Service and Hyperledger Fabric forge a new path", I mentioned how the language of blockchain technology is shifting. Even the labels themselves are still fluid. Debates rage over whether IBM and R3 should call their solutions “blockchains”. For a year or two now, many writers have preferred Distributed Ledger Technologies, yet the increasingly dominant private blockchains aren’t very distributed at all.
In "We are hopelessly hooked" (New York Review of Books, February 25), political historian Jacob Weisberg canvasses the social impact of digital technology. He describes mobile and social media as “self-depleting and antisocial” but I would prefer different-social, not merely for the vernacular but because the new media's sadder side is a lot like what's gone before.
One Integrated, Global System For Finance And HR Delivers Business Success
This case study examines Ensono’s experience implementing Workday’s HR and Finance enterprise applications in the cloud.
Google researchers have come up with a method for machine learning that tackles two of the technology's biggest pain points to date: End-user privacy and device and network resource consumption.
I was really excited to participate on a panel at this year’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference discussing the future of the ticket marketplace. The other panelists included:
Digital Business takes place within distributed network-based ecosystems using interactions in the form of various ‘Services’ to create Business value and revenues. The ability to dynamically orchestrate a set of Services involving various partners within the Business Ecosystem brings the requirement for a new kind of ‘Middleware’.
Imagine this: You are an IT manager newly hired into one of the fastest-growing companies disrupting an entire industry. Your workforce is highly mobile, but the phone system is desk-based with complicated codes to perform simple tasks like transferring calls. User frustration is high with dropped calls and you need to fix it and fast.
Last year, the IoT botnet Mirai was used in a number of high-profile DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks, taking advantage of hundreds of thousands of insecure Linux-based IoT devices. In recent weeks, a new strain of IoT malware has emerged, with a different and potentially dangerous new purpose.
I attended my first Adobe Summit held in Las Vegas a few weeks back along with 12,000 other attendees. The stunning opening videos were a visual feast for the eyes (I expected no less considering the company's creative talent) and the main theme was the launch of the new Adobe Experience Cloud. Adobe’s primary message centered on customer's experience and everyone is a brand ambassador for their organization. The new umbrella Experience Cloud then reorganized Adobe’s various solutions into 3 primary Clouds:
Navigating the Future of Technology and Innovation | DisrupTV Ep. 56
In Episode 56 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three industry leaders:
This case study examines Ensono’s experience implementing Workday’s HR and Finance enterprise applications in the cloud. Ensono provides infrastructure management services for global companies. Ensono delivers next-generation IT solutions and helps organizations plan for optimized, future infrastructures.
WalkMe has a simple goal, they want to help companies make sure their employees and customers have the best possible experience with their applications and websites. If your Sales team is struggling using your CRM system, WalkMe will help guide them through the trouble spots. If your customers are not finding what they need on your website, WalkMe can show them the way. Think of it as the modernization of the Help file.