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Fast-Growing Metal Finishing Company Puts HR System in the Cloud
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Learn why Pioneer Metal Finishing selected Kronos to streamline and scale their HR processes.
The Social Business Forum took place in Milan on July 1st and 2nd and Constellation had the chance attend the event and the opportunity to present our thoughts on how the cloud will change social business systems.
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In last week’s post about what we are looking for with enterprise search, I mentioned what we call the Google paradigm. The Google paradigm is actually a summation of the resulting perceptions based on the popularity of Google; those perceptions are that enterprise search is as easy as Google web search, and that a central index of an enterprise is the right way to do enterprise search.
It is important to note that web search is not the same as enterprise search, and therein lies the major problem with the perceptions caused by the Google paradigm. Google is an excellent tool for informational web search. The point is that Google is for Web search, and provides zero value in the enterprise because the users typically have more than an inkling of what they are looking for, and perhaps have specific criteria they know are relevant, and thus require an interface that allows them to quickly filter the result down to a manageable number.
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A Primer for Business and Technology Leaders
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This best practices report provides a primer for CIOs looking to address the 'integration' facet of the four roles of the Chief Information Officer, providing the rationale, use cases, and recommendations for cloud integration.
Lesson Learned From Early Digital Transformation Projects Show New Rules For Digital Business
Digital business transformation is one of the hottest board room topics in this year’s strategy planning cycles. Organizations across the board believe that they must make begin the transformation process but many remain uncertain how or where to begin. Early efforts to create a Chief Digital Officer role work for media, advertising, and entertainment. Inside other industries, early findings show Chief Information Officers and Chief Technology Officers assuming this role. Regardless of role, digital business transformation requires a broad bench of digitally proficient leaders. Seven rules emerge from Constellation’s latest engagements and interactions with the Digital CXO Research Board members.
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Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer, with collaborators from UCSF and Cornell, this week reported on a study in which they tested how Facebook users respond psychologically to alternatively positive and negative posts. Their experimental technique is at once ingenious and shocking.
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Let's look at the announcements out of I/O from an enterprise perspective.
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Today's Google I/O included keynotes on a plethora of products. Here's a summary of the announcements in case you missed it.
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Best practices for conducting an engaging and effective briefing.
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[Event Report] Here are my top three takeaways from MongoDB's first user conference:
1) The data deluge is here 2)Next Generation apps are NoSQL apps 3) Opensource and IP/Services combo is very powerful
The rise of the BigData use case for enterprises that are building applications or at least looking for tools in the space were plentiful at the event. We see this as a part of the bigger trend to the No Design Database era – where during the creation of these applications, no to little design dependencies in regards of potential insights need to be taken.
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Matching Culture Goals with Technology Produces a Profitable Customer- and Employee-Centric Business
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Learn why New Belgium Brewing Company chose Microsoft Dynamics AX for ERP and Dynamics CRM with Supply Chain to support rapid growth while supporting customer- and employee-centricity.
This is the second in a series of posts designed to help you submit your best SuperNova Award application.Here I define the SuperNova Award categories so you can submit your application to the most relevant category.
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I wrote a post a few months ago about IoT (internet of things) and how it was “big data” with a new suit. I also read a tweet that gave me pause for thought by Simon Jacobson that raised the question about IoT use cases -how soon till we see #IoT use cases beyond remote monitoring and maintenance? asset reliability important but more uses needed #rsteched
Going one step further, when will our supply chains see IoT moving beyond “just” remote monitoring and asset management examples?
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Each year Santa Clara University hosts a variety of immersion weeks (or longer) for other university’s Executive MBA programs. I like to say, SCU Brings Silicon Valley to the World, though our marketing team hasn’t yet joined me in that. We use these weeks as opportunities to share our basic innovation principles and ground truth about living and working in the Valley. The common ground we develop expands all of our ability to work effectively together and is a chance to build networks that reach far beyond the range of a Google or Yahoo bus.
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Disruption, Collaboration, and The Future Of Work Highlighted In Latest Edition
Last week, June 16, 2014, GE unveiled the 2014 results for its “Global Innovation Barometer“. In the 4th annual survey, the GE team commissioned Edelman Berland to phone interview 3209 senior business executives between April 2, 2014 and May 30, 2014. Four key areas of findings focused on: 1) Macro trends show how essential innovation is to overall strategy. 2) Glocalization emerges as a key requirement for successful innovation. 3) Delivering on new business models creates challenges on successful innovation projects. 4) Speed and agility to innovate better is more mantra than reality at most organizations.
The Bottom Line: GE’s Global Innovation Barometer Highlights Growing Sophistication Among Executives To Embrace Or Prepare For Business Model Disruption.
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Delta Air Lines' pilots use of Microsoft's Surface 2 tablets replaces paper flight materials, resulting in reduced fuel costs, and improvements in customer experience.
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This case study examines Delta's Surface 2 implementation project.
Last week I had the honor of opening Women of the Channel West. This conference focuses on women in the information technology channel community -- some of our top technology sales strategy leaders. The San Francisco event was the first time this conference had come to the west coast and I think we did a great job hosting. Here is a gracious summary of my keynote by Kari Hamanaka, including quotes from the audience. It thrills me that they found the ideas actionable and that they plan to put them into use.
My slides are here and I’m happy to talk with anyone about the meat behind the images. I had the chance to push the limits of how we might "lead by letting go" across work, leadership, education, and mentoring.
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[Event Report] I had the opportunity to attend IBM's Big Data and Analytics Summit 2014. The refreshing thing is that when IBM talks about analytics, it’s the ‘true’ analytics.
My takeaways from the summit: 1) The transformative power of analytics 2) Speed matters 3) Watson is the differentiator between IBM and other big data systems
Read on for analysis.
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Learn about Big Privacy, the new big data privacy pact that calls on digital businesses to practice restraint, transparency, and offer fair value in exchange for personal data.
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'Big Privacy’ calls on companies to practice restraint, transparency and provide customers fair value in exchange for personal data. Big privacy is designed to be an open conversation between business and consumers, and will play an essential role in ensuring we make progress toward realizing the benefits of big data analytics.
Watch the recording of this Big Privacy webinar now.
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I’ve just published a new report focusing on the role of the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). CDO is a relatively new role and many organizations desperately need them to help build capabilities and competitiveness.Making the Case for the Chief Digital Officer
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Manufacturing System Replacement Cycles Have Woken Up From Their Dormancy
In the past three years, Constellation has seen an increase in inquiries and vendor selections for manufacturing ERP. The shift to local based manufacturing, cheaper domestic energy, and more automated complex manufacturing has created a new manufacturing renaissance in North America. Plex is not a newcomer in the market. However, in 2001, the company moved to a cloud based approach. Plex has done a great job moving beyond it’s initial automobile OEM roots for discrete manufacturing. At PowerPlex, Constellation had the opportunity to interview craft beer manufacturers, small batch food manufacturers, and small A&D shops. Constellation sees this space as an emerging growth category given the estimated $50B manufacturing and tier two ERP replacement market over the next 20 years.
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[Event Report NorthgateArinso analyst summit] NGA is unique in the vendor landscape with having a sole focus on HR, but then NGA pretty much offers every possible service (except RPO) for their customers. From general strategy, over implementation, hosting, payroll services, BPO and Product IP, NGA plays and wants to keep playing in all these markets. It will be key to watch how NGA will be able to grow the base of such a vast and diverse portfolio. All these different areas need management attention and financial investment to get off the ground and keep flying – not an easy task for a mainly services oriented vendor. The next 12 months will show if NGA can grow the base and invest in this portfolio or if it will have to streamline the offering. Sometimes doing less is more for your customers, but you cannot fault NGA for trying.
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Innovative Brands Need a Leader to Navigate Digital Disruption
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This trends Quark examines why your organization needs a Chief Digital Officer, and outlines the major function of a CDO so you can make the case for a Chief Digital Officer.