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On August 9, 2016, Manufacturing Cloud pioneer Plex, announced the acquisition of DemandCaster, a cloud based sales forecasting and inventory planning software provider based outside of Chicago, Illinois. Founder Ara Surenian built DemandCaster from his operational consulting experiences in demand planning, supply planning, and sales and operations planing software. This first acquisition by Plex in the company’s history will:...
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It’s all about the people.Top companies hire great employees and focus on those who buy their products. Especially for B2B selling, it’s not a company that is the target but the people who will be using the products and services. Last week on DisrupTV, we caught up with strong leaders with missions to build and expand their companies’ or clients’ cultures and brands by focusing on the people who matter.Building a Culture Within Creates a Strong External Brand
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A good friend of mine from graduate school (and Lecturer for the Institute for Sport Business at Loughborough University) Ben Corbett, is on-the-ground in Rio during the Olympic Games, so I asked him if he could share some sports business themed pictures with us.
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Empower Employees on a Global Scale with Next-Generation Global HR Applications This report examines how global organizations should utilize Next Generation Global HR applications to drive enterprise agility.
Elevating Employee Experience, Customer Amazement & Conversational Business | DisrupTV Ep. 27
This week on DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sat down with three leaders:
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Tweet It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Statista with data around the incredibly high costs of hosting the Olympic Games. It’s interesting to see not only the extreme variance in costs by location and year, but which games had the most significant cost overruns on a percentage basis. Click here […]
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The convergence of software vendors and services providers foreshadows the challenges organizations face in the selection of digital transformation solutions. The lack of pre-packaged, out-of-the-box solutions forces executives to focus not only on how the solutions are designed but also on the desired outcome and business model. Here are five things organizations need to do to succeed...
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Software Vendors and Services Providers Shift Value from Products and Services to Outcomes The lack of pre-packaged, out-of-the-box solutions for digital transformation forces executives to commission their own digital transformation solutions. Market leaders have partnered with technology providers and services firms for assistance with building these solutions. New York-based Infor is one technology provider who recently spun out a separate group to deliver business consulting and digital transformation.
Answers to frequently asked SuperNova Award questions and a few tips to improve your chances of winning a 2016 SuperNova Award.
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Everything starts with an idea.Where we sit, how we travel, how we work or relax - all of these things started with someone’s idea. Recently on DisrupTV, we caught up with leaders changing the way we think and plan for the future of our businesses, our technologies and ourselves.Looking into the Future
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We have the opportunity to attend Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference in Las Vegas, held from August 1st till 4th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 2000 participants, a record for a Spring conference. But then no surprise as Spring is the framework that works probably best with Pivotal’s PaaS product, CloudFoundry, so a large part of the attendees are building applications on CloudFoundry.
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The three step process to apply for a 2016 SuperNova Award. Deadline August 8, 2016.
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In the video below I review several recent annoucements from Microsoft around Office and Outlook.
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I was asked recently on a briefing call how to effectively track Marketing versus Sales generated leads. My response - stop separating them! The key is facilitating buyer engagement and not create division over who gets “credit" for the lead. To manage this effectively, companies need to first understand the differences between lead source and contact source.
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Today Salesforce announced they are acquiring document collaboration and group chat vendor Quip for $582M USD.In the video below I discuss why this is a great move for Salesforce, as it will add richer content creation to Chatter and Communities, leverage Salesforce business objects, embed Salesforce Files, and provide Salesforce customers with persistent chat.
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Deutsche Bank estimates AWS derives about 15% of its total revenue mix or has attained a $1.5B revenue run rate in Europe. AWS is now approximately 6x the size of Microsoft Azure globally according to Deutsche Bank. These and other insights are from the research note published earlier this month by Deutsche Bank Markets Research […]
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Social Selling, Strategy & Revenue Acceleration | DisrupTV Ep. 26
In DisrupTV Episode 26, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with:
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Workday HR and financial analyses stand to benefit, but Platfora customers will lose the on-premises software option in the wake of the pending acquisition … Continue reading →
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Earlier today Oracle announced its intent to acquire NetSuite… rumors of the acquisition are almost as old that if they were humans, they would attend middle school, but there was a recent pickup, and they have no materialized…
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Oracle’s 9.3B acquisition of Netsuite came as no surprise to valley insiders. The rumors have surfaced for weeks. The surprise came as how badly Oracle sought cloud revenue and to bring a friendly partner back into the family. Constellation sees the following for the buy side:
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In less than two years Satya Nadella has transformed Microsoft from incumbent under siege to tech pioneer, on multiple fronts. The change in stance since Steve Ballmer has been nothing short of remarkable.One of Satya’s signature moves has been to open up Microsoft Office to other platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and Google Chrome. It was diametrically opposed to Ballmer’s approach of using Office as a drawcard for Microsoft Windows OS.At first this seemed like a masterstroke. Extend the franchise by making it universal.
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The need for customer experience to improve is not a myth. In fact, here’s why. Noted psychology researcher and writer Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi observed in 1998 that people who perform seamless, sequence-based activities on a regular basis are happier than people who don’t[i]. He coined the term “flow” to describe this behavior. With the advent of CoIT, […]
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In this short video, I share my some thoughts on the recent data breach scandals rocking the US political scene, blaming tools, and taking accountability for the things you say and share.
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