This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
A recent study by a group of Danish researchers is raising thorny questions about whether publicly available user data should nonethless be treated with privacy and restraint in mind. Here are the key details as reported by Wired:
In January 2016 I published a report titled Collaboration Vendors Shaping the Future of Work. The report highlights 18 companies/products that show vision in improving the way people get work done. One of the vendors included was IBM, specially their IBM Verse messaging client. Today I've published a guest blog post on IBM.com that dives deeper into the why IBM Verse plays an important role in shaping the Future of Work.
Using the Internet of Things to Boost Revenue and Deliver a Brand’s Personalized Promise Learn how can your company turn the idea of “IOT-driven customer experiences” into a tangible reality. This report details how to use IoT to create positive effects on both the bottom-line and the customer experience.
This week I attended Salesforce Connections, a conference focused on their Marketing Cloud offerings, which competes with similar platforms from companies like Oracle, Adobe, SAP, and
Anaplan wants to promote broad use of its all-purpose planning engine, so it’s changing pricing and promising a bevy of platform upgrades. The only question is which new features will arrive first?It’s all about the platform. That was the message at this week’s Anaplan’s Hub16 event in San Francisco. The company reinforced that message with new pricing and plenty of promised platform upgrades aimed at supporting yet more planning applications and use cases.
Mission-Driven Leadership, Scale & Media Commentary | DisrupTV Ep. 15
In Episode 15 of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with three compelling voices who each bring a different lens on mission, growth, and media:
We have the opportunity to attend Salesforce’s Connections conference in Atlanta, held from May 10th to 12th 2016. The conference is well attended with over 5000 participants, coming from customers, prospects and the ecosystem. My impression of the attendance was that it was energized and looking forward to use more of the Salesforce marketing offerings.
Large banks and public cloud services aren't two things you typically hear paired hand in hand, but as CIO reports, more and more significant financial institutions are dipping into the public cloud waters:
The Digital Hollywood Panel was comprisized of Brian Popowitz, Jessica Hasson, John Bohan, Christopher Puga and Johnny Miller. When I asked them if they could only leave the audience with a few 1-3 thoughts, what would they be, here’s how they responded: Brian Popowitz 1) Black Box. I’m in the business of working with musicians to aggregate an […]
Old Dogs Can Learn New Tricks: It’s never too late to transform yourself. Having been a system’s integrator many years ago, I found the transformations happening at Capgemni very inspiring. There was a period where many system’s integrators avoided the conversation about going to cloud and for good reason. Their business and revenue model was not […]
On May 10th I attended Salesforce Connections 2016 in Atlanta Georgia. This event is Salesforce's conference dedicated to marketing, showcasing their Marketing Cloud offerings.There were four main announcements:
Recently, I was involved in research spearheaded by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics on New Strategic Information and Technology Roles in Life Sciences Companies: The Impact of Digital Transformation on the CIO. The findings warrant further thought and discussion.
We had the opportunity to attend the Cornerstone Convergence event, held from May 9th till 12th in Los Angeles at the JW Marriott in the LA live neighbourhood. The conference is well attended, though I captured no official attendance numbers, but looks similar to last year’s conference.
Wipro HOLMES Delivers Next-Generation Services Built on Cognitive Computing Capabilities Wipro is an information technology, consulting, and outsourcing firm serving more than 900 clients from the Fortune 1000.
Product Overview: Wipro HOLMESWipro HOLMES Delivers Next-Generation Services Built on Cognitive Computing Capabilities Wipro’s HOLMES platform represents a software and services offering in the cognitive computing platforms and solutions category. This artificial intelligence-based platform allows Wipro to provide clients with a differentiated and disruptive offering among the classical IT services firms.
Digital Transformation Shifts Static Event Marketing to Live Engagement Marketing Event marketing often represents 21 percent to 33 percent of most marketing organization budgets. While success criteria remain murky at worst and sparse at best, organizations have an opportunity to digitize event marketing using live engagement marketing techniques. Live engagement marketing provides marketing teams with the capability to not only quantify event marketing activities but also identify success rates in right time. This real-time capability enables event marketing teams to make adjustments during the event that improve engagement and ultimately increase conversion rates.
Steve Wilson, Constellation VP & Principal Analyst shares his POV in 10.5 minutes.
"Identity fraud is very simple, it is necessary to work in authentication because it is now very easy to replace, falsifying and stealing the digital identity. The identification industry has worked on increasing security and privacy, reduce costs and barriers of authentication, but needs to go much further."
Digital Transformation Shifts Static Event Marketing to Live Engagement Marketing Live engagement marketing provides marketing teams the capability to quantify event marketing activities and identify success rates in right time. This real-time capability enables event marketing teams to make adjustments during the event that improve engagement and increase conversion rates.
It looks like the SAP “pre Sapphire leak announcement” tradition that broke 2 years ago is alive and well – today Apple announced a partnership with SAP. It’s not clear what may have motivated Apple to push on the gas pedal in regards of the timeline, apart from the known slowing of iPad Sales and more recently iPhone Sales. With 13 days to Sapphire, there are a number of selling days in the quarter left...
Qlik Sense Enterprise 3.0 and the platform strategy dominates Qonnections 2016. Change lies ahead as analysis moves into the cloud.Qlik Sense 3.0 is coming in June, Qlik Sense Cloud is ramping up for wider use, and the Qlik DataMarket is gaining more powerful data-connection and data-enrichment capabilities. These were among the notable announcements at Qlik’s May 2-4 Qonnections event in Orlando, Fla.