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Up until recently, I have rarely listened to podcasts. They just did not seem to work for me. I didn’t have the regularity of travel or the time to focus. But podcasting seems to be riding a wave of new popularity – and an explosion in the type and number of podcasts combined with easy to use apps has seen me start to change my ways. And with an interest in supporting people and businesses I know, I started with some local casts – Trevor Young’s Reputation Revolution podcast and Mark Pesce’s This Week in Startups Australia.
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Event report of UItimate Software Connections user conference - top 3 takeaways are a rich roadmap, a strong analytics agenda and the partnership with Netsuite.
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Here are my takeaways from Oracle’s second dedicated HCM event.
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I had a letter to the editor published in Nature on big data and privacy.Data protection: Big data held to privacy laws, tooWhat do you think?
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The Business case for the Internet of Things -- indeed for everything becoming network connected -- lies in the positive outcomes enabled by leveraging the data collected from the instrumentation of the business as a whole. Its not just about collecting more data from existing applications, it’s about being able to obtain data in new ways. The combination of this new data and traditional analytics is expected to add Business value via ‘Insights’ that come from marring these two, previously isolated data sets, in real-time.
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New technologies and changing demographics fundamentally change the workplace. My newest report, "Inside The Future of HCM", helps you adapt to the ever-changing work paradigm by identifying the forces shaping the future of Human Capital Management. This report identifies seven trends influencing the Future of HCM.
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We have the opportunity to attend Ultimate Software’s user conference #UltiConnect in Las Vegas. The conference is well attended, with a record 2400 attendees. So let’s look at the top 3 takeaways
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We had the opportunity to attend the 2015 edition of ADP’s Meeting of the Minds user conference, which is targeted to the large enterprise customers of ADP. The conference was very well attended, with over 1500+ client participants from over 700+ customers. The event took place in Nashville at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel – a definitive alternative to the Las Vegas and Orlando hotels.Here are my top 3 takeaways from the conference (and checkout my First Take of Day #1 here):
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Apple Event Announcements Shows Continued Progression In The Digital LifestyleThe Spring Forward Apple event at Yuerba Buena gardens brought forth a slew of major announcements that pointed to the continued build out of the Steve Jobs "Star Trek" road map. The analysis of key announcements include:...
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On March 24th Pivotal announced that it will support deployments to Amazon Web Services (AWS) per ‘one click’ from its Cloud Foundry product. Let’s identify implications for partners, competitors, and customers...
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Yawn. Alexander Nazaryan in Newsweek (March 22) has penned yet another tirade against privacy.His column is all strawman. No one has ever said privacy is more important than other rights and interests. The infamous Right to be Forgotten is a case in point -- the recent European ruling is expressly about balancing competing interests, around privacy and public interest. All privacy rules and regulations, our intuitions and habits, all concede there may be over-riding factors in the mix.
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My top three takeaways from ADP's Meeting of the Minds conference in Nashville: No change in the vision, UI & analytics, and New ways of analyzing data.
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Most credit card safety advice is virtually useless. The truth is very few payment card details are stolen from websites or people's computers. Organised crime targets the databases of payment processors and big merchants, where they steal the details of tens of millions of cardholders at once. You might never have shopped online in your life, and still have your card details stolen, behind your back, at a department store breach.
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Another week another analyst day…this time it was to Detroit and a meeting with Plex Systems. Between my attempts to discover where South Detroit was located and enjoying a great tour of the Sanders Fine Chocolate factory, I was able to spend an educational day and half with the Plex executive team. The time was well spent getting an update on where Plex ended up in 2014 and where they are heading for 2015. A few take aways:
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The following video contains news about:Microsoft Office 365 Delve rolling out to eligible customersLiquidPlanner's new dashboard featuresThe new Adobe Document CloudUnify Circuit's new (and upcoming) integrationsIBM and Twitter partnering for new insights in IBM BlueMix and IBM Watson Analytics
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Many Enterprises see their adoption of Digital Business being driven by Sales and Marketing additions to their current products and activities. Sadly this is unlikely to be enough as many Industry sectors are becoming transformed markets adding a imperative time scale for individual Enterprises to reconsider their need to grasp Digital Business.
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We had the opportunity to attend the yearly Cloudera analyst meeting at the beautiful historic Mark Hopkins hotel in San Francisco. The vendor had a remarkable audience of almost 40 analysts attending, documenting the importance of Cloudera for the BigData market. Here are my top 3 takeaways of the event...
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Google itself did two things very quickly in response to the RTBF ruling. First, it mobilised a major team to process delisting requests. This is no mean feat -- reports say that 150,000 requests have been received to date -- but it's similar to the task of managing take-down notices for copyright and unlawful material, and Google is well practiced at that. Secondly, the company convened an Advisory Council of independent experts to formulate strategies for balancing the competing rights and interests bound up in RTBF. The Advisory Council delivered its report in January.I declare I'm a strong supporter of RTBF, so I had high expectations of the Council's report. Yet I found it quite barren.
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What I found most interesting at the Convergence conference is the emphasis on people. And the acknowledgement that technology is there to empower people. There’s been, as many of you know, this rub between the “business” and “IT” and their differing agendas. A couple of examples of customer’s at the Microsoft Convergence Conference showed today clearly that there are […]
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In spite of my hopes I am finding more organizations with the wrong models for implementing transformation.This is a stream of consciousness post summarizing observations, research, and work regarding digital transformation.
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A few weeks ago, Samsung was universally condemned for collecting ambient conversations through their new voice recognition Smart TV. Yet the new Hello Barbie is much worse.Integrating natural language processing technology from ToyTalk, Mattel's high tech update to the iconic doll is said to converse with children, will get to learn voices, and will adapt the conversation in an intelligent way.
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If you are in sales, which in some capacity we all are, you really must begin the road down social selling. As I have worked on research on this topic, I’ve gotten comments that range everything from “What’s social selling?” to “Social Selling is the best thing that has every happened to sales!” So if you don’t know what social selling is – here’s a paper that will help you understand some of what you need to know: How Sales Leaders and Sales Reps Can Create a Social Selling Organization. When I was at the LinkedIn’s Social Selling Conference, I was given my Social Selling Index (SSI). What is that? The Social Selling Index is made up of 4 pillars:..
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The fuss over the Apple Watch isn’t really about the “watch.” These technology players are all trying to get into the smart watch space because they want to make sure they get a piece of the real estate that is being battled over – the wrist. The reality is watch sales (non smart watches) has not gone away and is actually on an upswing.No one is buying watches? Not so fast…
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Software AG rolled out their executives to provide a recap on where they came from in 2014 and more importantly where they see the future for the German software giant.Software AG stressed their transition to helping their customers’ transition to a digital business. Where does digital disruption come from? From Dr John Bates presentation, Software AG pointed out three areas they are seeing disruption come from...
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