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What's it like to have one of the enterprise's hottest jobs? CDOs Ganesh Bell, GE; and Peter Kim, Chiel Worldwide discuss the trials and realities of global Chief Digital Officers.
Andy Mulholland discovers how non-technology companies are transforming in response to digital disruption. Panelists: Jason Maynard, Wells Fargo; Brook Colangelo, SVP and CIO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Jos
They may not think they are, but most brands are anonymous.
It is evident that most brands, especially those in banking, retail, travel and telco industries, spend a lot of time making sure their sales and service associates are warm, welcoming and personable. In retail or sales, they promote "Hello, how can I help you" buttons, train folks on how to shake hand firmly and smile, and ask them to greet customers in store with their names. All these are examples of how brands invest in making their customer facing employees “human”.
If you are leading individuals from multiple "generations", you are probably categorizing them incorrectly, and here is why this is bad for you and your business.
The rise of digital presents an opportunity for the Chief Information Security Officer to move from a purely defensive position to one which uses the organization's information to act strategically and drive business value. Today Constellation Research published Strategic Opportunities for the Chief Information Security Officer in a Digital Age, a report highlighting the potential for security officers to utilize an organization’s information as a competitive asset.
Exploring the Shift from Information Security to Digital Competitiveness
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This report provides key concepts and frameworks for broadening the focus of information security activities to include utilizing the organization's information to make a stronger, strategic contribution to the enterprise’s competitiveness.
If you have been wondering what Salesforce has been up to, they have unveiled their next generation social studio, which is now fully integrated into the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. It’s got an interesting twist in that it includes next generation social listening, social customer service for service teams and new social lead engagement for sales […]
Before The Hype Hits A Crescendo, Let’s Lock Down The Basic Elements of Digital TransformationConstellation defines digital transformation as the methodology in which organizations transform and create new business models and culture with digital technologies.“Digital Transformation is the methodology in which organizations transform and create new business models and culture with digital technologies”
Do we truly understand the economic value that the Internet of Things is able to provide as an Environment as well as to a specific Business Activity? It’s pretty amazing to think what will probably be connected with the resulting amount of data made available, but that’s not a Business argument for making use of the Internet of Things. In fact Business value is created by the context specific, not from the volume… normally.
About a year ago IBM first announced they would be developing their next generation email client, code named MailNext. Today in NYC (and similar satellite events around the world) IBM unveiled the official product, now named IBM Verse. That's verse as in converse, or social interaction, not the shoe company. It's not a play on universe, nor a song or poem, nor related to Lotus "Notes" making up a verse!
For the last few years many software vendors in the enterprise social market have explained what their product does by using the analogy "It's like Facebook at work". Well, now it appears Facebook themselves will be getting into the game by actually offering, Facebook At Work. At the moment there are few official details from Facebook about the product such as when will it be available, what will it cost, what will it do, etc.Below are a few of my thoughts about the potential Facebook At Work:
Facial recognition is digital alchemy. It's the prince of data mining.Facial recognition takes previously anonymous images and conjures peoples' identities. It's an invaluable capability. Once they can pick out faces in crowds, trawling surreptitiously through anyone and everyone's photos, the social network businesses can work out what we're doing, when and where we're doing it, and who we're doing it with. The companies figure out what we like to do without us having to 'like' or favorite anything.
AWS' yearly user conference re:Invent winds down, and it was an announcement filled and action packed week in Las Vegas. The conference had over 13k+ attendees, with a huge global contingent, I probably heard more foreign languages than at any other event I attended recently (and even in the same settings at the Venetian, which makes for easy comparisons).
Today was Day 1 of IBM's Analyst Insight Summit. This exclusive event brings together the top industry analysts from around the world to meet with the heads of IBM's software division. If I had to sum up the event in one word, it would be analytics.IBM has a vast software portfolio that covers a variety of topics, but at the centre of all of them is IBM's message around using data to gather insights that can lead to better decision making. While IBM has several technologies in the analytics space, the crown jewel is IBM Watson.