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Enterprise Healthcare Management (EHM) is a new category of software that incorporates analytics into healthcare management, thereby enabling organizations to select, deploy, manage, and influence the outcomes of their healthcare investments to better align with business goals.Constellation expects this category of technology to play a key role in improving the future of work by improving the efficacy of health benefits programs while driving down cost through transparency. And while ‘fixing’ the healthcare system requires systemic change, EHM will provide the technological support to organizations navigating the massive transitions ahead.
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IBM's newest event, IBM InterConnect is the combination of multiple conferences that used to be held separately throughout the year. In its inaugural run, IBM did an excellent job in telling a consistent story to their customers that spanned all of the IBM software brands. No longer is there one message about security, another about social, another about mobile, etc. Instead IBM is now combining the products and services of the entire company to creating solutions that leverage all of what IBM has to offer.
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Next week 86,000 people will attend Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This conference strives to cater to EVERYONE--thus it's easy to lose your focus in the deluge of information. For those interested in disruptive technologies for the enterprise, Constellation Research's early adopter's guide to MWC will keep you on track. Keep these disruptive trends in mind while you're walking the floor, and have a successful MWC.
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Event Report: IBM InterconnectI had the opportunity to attend IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas this week. We saw a number of medium size announcements, which all point toward steady progress. Here are my top 3 takeaways.
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Your enterprise relies on sophisticated management of its manufacturing processes together with its network of sub contractors to utilize expensive assets. Increasingly you need to improve the cohesive operational management in response to calls for more ‘agility’ in responsiveness to market demands. Q. How do you really get the operational game change needed by using real-time IoT sensing data?
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An updated list of social business and collaboration vendors
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Last week I published a report, Inside the 9 Cloud Trends Every CXO Needs to Know in 2015. This report assesses the state of the cloud market and identifies nine trends influencing cloud technology. Let's take a look at these trends.
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Last week the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) published their rules and regulations for the oversight of drone usage within the United States. Many will and have argued that these these restrictions severely limit the promise of drones for supply chains and deliveries. This does nor mean there are not some use cases that supply chains can take advantage of immediately.
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It is end of February and it is time to make it to Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect, the new mega IBM event, combining three separate previous events. Spanning from Mandalay Bay to MGM Grand it will for sure get those health tracker stats up – but better one mega event than 3 trips…
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My latest report is a best practices guide for sales leaders and teams looking to use social to transform their average-performing sales teams into top performers. This report addresses the social selling concerns of the weary social selling novice to the experienced sales leader seeking to improve the efficiency of their social sales team. Here are four steps to creating a social selling organization.
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How Enterprise Healthcare Management Improves the Health of Enterprises and Their Employees
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Market overview of the EHM market. Constellation expects EHM to influence the future of work by improving the efficacy of health benefits programs while driving down costs via transparency.
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The State of Human Capital Management Technology in 2015
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This report reveals seven trends influencing the future of HCM. Find out how organizations will manage their most valuable resource: their people.
My latest piece of research: How to Create a Social Selling OrganizationIn speaking to many sales leaders and sales reps (especially outside of Silicon Valley) they were wondering, “Would social selling make a difference to my sales organization and our sales results?” Having been in the “social media / digital world” for a while I found that an interesting question. But often if you are in the mix of something you can’t see what others can’t see. So I did some research on social selling to back up what my gut what was telling me, i.e., “Yes, social selling makes a tremendous difference to a sales organization’s bottomline.”...
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Enterprise healthcare management (EHM) technology is a category of software that incorporates analytics into the typical employer-provided healthcare solution. EHM enables employers to maximize their healthcare investments by improving the delivery of healthcare for employees, and identifying previously unknown opportunities uncovered by data.
My latest report provides a market overview of the EHM market. The report will be published February 23, 2015. Check back soon for more details.
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My first impressions of ‘SAP Cloud for planning’.
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New research conducted by Constellation Research shows rapid change in the workplace as many companies adopt mobile technologies. Survey results revealed mobile transformation as a top priority for over eighty percent of respondents with eighty-two percent of responses indicating the presence of dedicated mobile transformation teams at their organizations. Data also indicated work trending away from the static desktop. More than fifty percent of respondents reported switching between devices more than six times per day, and traditional desktop computers are only used one-third of the time.
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In Q4 2014 Constellation Research surveyed over 500 organizations of at least 1,000 employees in the education, healthcare, high tech and retail industries to determine the current state of mobile transformation. This report uncovers three core areas:
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How to Navigate the Future of Work amid Cultural and Technological Shifts in the Mobile Enterprise
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Analysis of survey data to assesses the state of mobile transformation. Emphasis on how mobile and cloud computing trends affect the future of work.
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Convert Average Sales Teams into Top Performers Using Social Networks
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Best practices for implementing social selling in your organization.
Part 4; The Enterprise Digital Business Platform; integrating the functions of a Digital Business together into a cohesive Enterprise.The Digital Business transformation of how an enterprise does business through its Buy and Sell operations is frequently a creating of immense value and quite quickly too. However success brings its own challenges, namely the difficulties of integration an enterprise’s capability for order fulfillment via its internal processes for adding value.
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This morning Pivotal informed the world on three major announcements, the creation of a BigData Product Suite, a partnership with Hortonworks and the launch of an ‘Open Data Platform’. Let's analyze the implications of these announcements.
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How can business users make sense of all the data that is being collected? Business users speak in business terms – lead conversion rates, reducing churn, increasing customer lifetime value. And that is NOT SQL language. However, to make better decisions about their campaigns and their overall business, they do need to use big data insights.
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In January, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini announced to employees that the company was raising its minimum wage from $12 to $16 per hour, and announced an improved health benefit for lower-income employees.Why? The positive effect of higher wages on morale, health, and turnover are the obvious answers, but there is more on Bartolini’s mind. Income inequality creates several substantial risks. See how companies are heading off these risks.
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I would like to explain how Anticipatory Analytics should work – and give you an idea of what the value is. This is, in essence, what predictive analytics should’ve been in generation 1.0, and how we evolve from that definition of predictive to today’s model. As I mentioned before, I see predictive as being badly implemented more than anything and am hoping this model can improve and replace those faulty implementations.
The outcome for this model: explore the art of the possible.
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