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Today Constellation hosted the webinar, How to Make the Case for the Digital CXO. Please find the webinar reording and additional digital CXO resources below. Disruption is inevitable. The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is the executive that will lead companies through the current era of digital disruption.
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Yesterday's launch of PeopleLinx version 3 represents an important evolution for the company, as they shift their platform from being LinkedIn-centric to broader platform for helping Sales Professionals do their job.
MyPOV: The Challenge of Yet-Another-Tool
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As marketers, we are constantly drawn to the idea of demographics – the cashed up profiling of the Baby Boomers, the anxious, try-harder Gen X-ers and the slacker Gen Ys. But like any generalisation, these labels are easily unpicked. There are plenty of Baby Boomers who are slackers and plenty of cashed up, power wielding Gen X-ers. And Gen Y are just starting to flex their creative, financial and intellectual powers – and there is more goodness to come. Rather than simply relying on this style of profiling, we should be working harder to understand these audiences. We need to map their behaviours, attitudes and interests, not just their age, sex and location.
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As marketers, we are constantly drawn to the idea of demographics – the cashed up profiling of the Baby Boomers, the anxious, try-harder Gen X-ers and the slacker Gen Ys. But like any generalisation, these labels are easily unpicked. There are plenty of Baby Boomers who are slackers and plenty of cashed up, power wielding Gen X-ers. And Gen Y are just starting to flex their creative, financial and intellectual powers – and there is more goodness to come. Rather than simply relying on this style of profiling, we should be working harder to understand these audiences. We need to map their behaviours, attitudes and interests, not just their age, sex and location.
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Sorry folks, this year's SuperNova Award competition is now closed!*The judges are hard at work evaluating your applications. We will be announcing the finalists and inviting them to Connected Enterprise on August 26, 2014!Check back on September 9 to vote for your favorite finalist to win the SuperNova Award!
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When DoubleClick launched their self-service advertising network it was a revelation. It was a no-brainer for Google to acquire DoubleClick in 2007 and roll its advertising network into its product line. And while Google has done wonders with its AdSense product, the DoubleClick heritage and its clunky user interface left it open to disruption.
Into this gap stepped Facebook with its billion strong, socially connected audience, offering a slick, audience oriented interface.
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I have been working on a family tree for some years. It’s a project that progresses in fits and starts. And like many things in my life, it began because it was easy to start doing it online. In the early days I had multiple accounts on various websites...
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The ongoing debate (or spat) on Twitter about the "No Estimates" movement had me reaching for the archives. Some say that being forced to provide estimates is somehow counter-productive for software developers. I've long thought about programming productivity, and the paradox that software is too soft.
Some programmers want special treatment. In effect, "No Estimates" proponents are claiming their particular work is not amenable to traditional metrics and management. In a way they're right; there is as yet no such thing as software "engineering". But if a programmer knows what they're doing, then providing estimates is not that difficult.
Software is definitely a difficult medium. It's highly non-linear, and breeds amazing complexity. But a great many of today's problems, like the recent #gotofail and Heartbleed scandals, are manifestly due to chaotic development practices.
As such, programmers are part of the problem.
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The Three Biggest Hurdles to Effective Collaboration: does your company have a handle on these collaboration killers? Constellation Orbits contributor, Paul Van Essche shares lessons learned during a recent project.
I'd like to share some interesting lessons learned from an exercise in improving collaboration conducted recently in a large public-sector organization. This précis is not short, it really just scratches the surface, so contact me if you want to chat about it in more detail - I'd be happy to share....
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This week’s blog is something new for X1 – a Q & A with Howard Williamson, the General Manager for X1’s market leading Social Discovery product. Howard is an experienced digital forensics expert and began his career in law enforcement, which gives him a unique perspective on the practice of social discovery. I had the pleasure of interviewing Howard this week on what is a very hot topic – social discovery.
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Chief Digital Officers serve as a leader who is wholly responsible and ultimately accountable for driving digital business transformation. As identified by Constellation in its’ recent report on the “Case For the Chief Digital Officer”, Constellation expects this executive to report directly to the CEO and bridge the gap between marketing and IT at a corporate level, rather than report into either existing function.A properly chartered CDO should have responsibility for:
1. Formulating digital business strategy. 2. Activating operational initiatives. 3. Managing the organization’s transformation. …Yet The Evolving Lineage Of The Chief Digital Officer Depends On Industry...
Ready to execute your digital strategy? Register for the Making the Case for the Digital CXO webinar or download the report, The Case for the Chief Digital Officer.
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Constellation recommends Oracle Sales Cloud for customers and partners. Find out why in the latest research report by R "Ray" Wang.
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I have been studying counter intuition for about five years, and I find it to be the single most effective way to stand out as a leader. A lot has been written about how counter-intuitive truths can open people’s minds to change. Neuroscience describes this as ‘cognitive dissonance’; stopping our mind from processing automatically and setting us up to restructure our thinking.See how other successful business individuals and world-recognized leaders apply counter intuition.
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For years, headlines about cloud computing have focused on infrastructure for the enterprise. Stories typically focus on the vendors – Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google App Engine, OpenStack, etc. – or on the benefits such as scalability, reliability, cost efficiency and of course that enterprise buzzword, “agility”.
But there’s an equally large, if not larger revolution occurring in small business where the catalyst is cloud software more than infrastructure-as-a-service. The greatest improvement over desktop or server software is this – the cloud promises easy access to the latest business technology.
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Amazon Web Services, Coursera, Google, MIT Courseware and Microsoft are accelerating the depth and variety of cloud computing courses, courseware and learning materials they are freely making available online.
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Love it or hate it, mobile computing is (has) dramatically changed the way we work. So I have two questions for you:
1) What are the 3 biggest advantages mobile access provides in helping you get your job done?
2) What are the 3 biggest challenges you have getting your job done while working mobile?
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Customer loyalty is the holy grail for retailers, consumer product companies (CPG), airlines, credit cards, media, and so on and so on. Companies across the majority of industries are striving to understand why their consumers are willing to hand over their hard earned income for goods and services. Why or will these consumers continue to purchase from the same source? And how can these companies keep these customers coming back and hopefully spending more and more...
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Everything old is new again...
Facebook's Graph Search helps you search for people, places and things...Which was the main focus of Lotus's ~1999-2002 Knowledge Management efforts. "People, Places & Things as the three essential ingredients of an effective Knowledge Management infrastructure"
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The data entry portion of time-tracking generally isn’t value-added time in our work. In my #SummerOfWorkDesign, I’m interested in finding tools and tricks that help people focus on their work, and not the transaction costs of that work. Y Combinator participant, Tiempo, and other new approaches to time-tracking help speed up pay processes, accounting, and even personal monitoring.Do you have a suggestion for my #SummerOfWorkDesign? A tool or trick that helps you or your organization do better at designing work that is valuable, provides feedback from the tasks themselves, and helps you get the collaboration you need?
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Whenever people talk about creating apps the conversation turns to delighting the customer. Companies build apps that will delight people. They will have a great user interface (UI) and an even better user experience (UX). They will enable people to do what they want/need to do. We learn from day one when you walk into a company it’s all about pleasing the customer. That’s why we build consumer apps the way that we do. Then when we have time, we build apps for our employees. You know, the ones we call users. We give them mobile devices or expect them to use their own. We take apps that exist on the desktop and port them to mobile devices. If we have time we may even try and make the apps look good. Yet businesses have no idea why their employees aren’t using those apps.
It’s really very simple. We think of our employees as an afterthought...
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Where will people do their most effective work? I’m in the middle of selling my old house and just bought a new one, so the common real estate refrain, “location, location, location” has been going through my head a lot. Do people need to work at an organizational site to be engaged? Can they work effectively away from a formal office?
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New deadline August 12, 2014
If you led the implementation of a disruptive technology for your organization we want to hear your story!
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Early Adopter Experience Demonstrates Growing Traction in Oracle’s Customer Base
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Learn how real Oracle customers are using Oracle Sales Cloud with three customer case studies.