This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
As many of you know, we were founded almost five years ago on November 9th, 2010. In the midst of a recession, and after working at another startup that was moving from analyst firm to boutique consulting, the goal was to build something different in the market. Elaine and David were the first two team members to join. The challenge – we had no funding. We covered salary on 500,000 in personal savings. We boot strapped the organization with a loose federation of independent analysts . Today we have evolved into a full employment model with full benefits, stock options, and retirement plans. Though we are five years older, the goal hasn’t changed – unite star people under one roof, bring star clients together, and engender a community and ecosystem around stars – hence the name Constellation Research.
Whether they are spooked by the specter of “digital disruption” or just afraid that the bandwagon will leave before they can jump on, organizations are desperately looking for C-level talent with digital credentials. “Digital credentials,” however, can cover an array of competencies, and organizations have produced their own array of titles for the potential occupant of the newly allocated “digital corner office.”
The robots are coming! What does the future of work have in store for people in the digital age. Will it be a dystopian existence where humans are the bottleneck to productivity and innovation or will we enter a world of augmented humanity and the humanization of digital?
A few weeks ago I spent the majority of my time in Las Vegas with Software AG at their Innovation World summit. Software AG aggressively pushed their digital platform agenda from day one on main stage as their executives took turns highlighting Software AG’s efforts with creating a digital platform to allow their customers to innovate.
Last week at Constellation Connect Enterprise we awarded our SuperNova awards for the most successful transformations we have seen in the last 12 months. The winner in the "Future of Work" category was Asha Aravindakshan of non profit Ashoka.
Case Study: Eharmony and HootsuiteHow eHarmony Improved Clickthrough Rates and Engagement Using Hootsuite in Social Channels This case study documents eHarmony's social media engagement results using Hootsuite.
In recent weeks there have been announcements from many of the big names of the technology industry of ‘Event Engines’ in association with other parts of their Cloud based product sets. In addition there are a number of startups also offering Event Processing engines with a variety of different benefits that will run on an available Cloud service. Most are specifically announced as part of Internet of Things, IoT, solutions, or sometimes IoT suites, but what’s different from BPM business process engines?
SAP's TechEd event this week in Barcelona placed Fiori, the vendor's strategic user interface paradigm, in the spotlight with the announcement of two new services, Fiori cloud edition and Fiori mobile service.
Microsoft has acquired Israel-based Secure Islands following the purchase of two other Israeli security vendors over the past year or so. Redmond shared the pertinent details in an official blog post on Monday:
Constellation Research principal analyst and bestselling author R "Ray" Wang will teach you how to structure the most favorable cloud software contract for your organization.Details:November 10, 2015 at 11:00 am PST/ 2:00 pm ESTRegister here
Ericsson and Cisco have announced a significant strategic partnership the companies say will generate at least $1 billion in revenue for each party by 2018. Here are the key details from their joint press release:
The Federal Communications Commission, like so many government agencies, is burdened with a long list of legacy IT systems. One that stood out in particular to FCC CIO David Bray was a 15-year-old web page that linked to a paper-based consumer complaints center.
Background check provider SterlingBackcheck serves more than 20,000 customers around the world, including 25 percent of the Fortune 500, and enjoys a 92 percent client retention rate.
Mercy is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the U.S., with dozens of hospitals and hundreds of clinics that serve millions of patients each year.
Luminex develops and builds biological testing equipment for the clinical diagnostic and life science industries. Its field services team includes about 50 engineers whose roles are more like solution providers and partners to customers than simply repair technicians.