This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
I'm just back from the Mazatlán Forum, “Technology and the Future(s) of Education: U.S. and Mexican Perspectives.” For three days and a couple of wonderful extra meals, leaders from education, industry, and academia worked to find a more effective future for students in the United States, Mexico, and the world.
Mobile First.Mobile Only.Mobile seems to be in everybody’s minds these days, no? I mean, name one person in #EnSw that has not added mobile to their credentials in the past 12-18 months.(BTW, I was one of the originators of m-CRM while I was at Gartner back in the early 2000s – we pioneered this stuff; needless to say, I know more about for far longer than most of these new “experts”… sorry, where was I?)
To call out the term “social business” seems almost anachronistic in 2014. After all, aren’t we all now working in “social businesses”? Haven’t we all been part of the digital transformation sweeping every business?Well, yes and no.
2009: “SOCIAL FUSION”Five years ago, as part of Monitor Talent’s annual gathering of thought leaders, we gathered a set of marketing and social media experts to discuss a hypothesis about how current trends would affect marketing. Our group included thought leaders and entrepreneurs like Clay Shirky (author of Here Comes Everybody), Deb Roy (founder of Bluefin Labs),
the cloud" as a noun and start thinking about "clouding" as a verb.
When we talk about cloud computing in general, we're describing a set of efficiency principles only applied to once stateful compute and storage resources that are now stateless and liquid. We do not automatically think about resources other than storage, compute (and recently network) being stateless as well.
Last week, Adobe announced a set of research findings at their annual summit. The key stat: 40% of over 1,000 marketers surveyed want to reinvent their role as a marketer, but only 14% of them know how to do it.
Here's who I'm speaking with this week: Tuesday - ThursdaySAP CRM 2014 As a reminder, I'm interested in hearing from companies that enable customer experience management, provide marketing services (including agencies and consultancies) and support innovation agenda items.
Two things to start:I have no qualms with CMOs and their responsibilities – it is a critical job in most organizations and hard to do as any other one.I was not going to caveat the title and say ALL CMOs, but am trying to avoid being singled out as ignorant (yeah, new thing for me – I know)OK, now that I put on the first layer of asbestos, let’s begin.The job of a marketer is hard.
The next generation of Enterprise Software Applications (#EnSW) will be as easy to download & use as Candy Crush, by King.com, Ltd. They will make use of backend data systems, (PaaS), providers like Salesforce, IBM, AWS, and Rackspace.
Microsoft’s latest study shows enterprises’ pace of cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate. Nearly half of the respondents (45%) report they have cloud-based applications running in production environments. 58% report that they selectively target new applications and projects for cloud computing.
Market Leaders And Fast Followers Celebrate A Decade Of Digital Marketing Vision
In 2004, Omniture founder Josh James, an avid skier, held the first Summit atop the Snowbird Ski Resort for 270 early adopters and converted. Fast forward eleven years to 2014, an estimated 7000 customers, partners, influencers, and prospects gathered at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah March 25th to March 28th, 2014 in search of reinvention in digital marketing (see Figure 1). Since that time, Adobe Summit has emerged as a must attend event for those looking at the entire digital experience from creative to commerce. Despite the size, this year’s event remained equally intimate. At almost every venue, restaurant, or session, attendees remarked on how easy it was to meet people and discover, connect, and engage on the future of digital marketing.
Oracle will not make a formal announcement of the availability of Research 8 for a few weeks, but many customers have it today. We talked with some them about the product's stability and the features they have implemented. This is what we found.
Yesterday, IBM announced expansion plans for its Interactive Experience professional services practice. Their investment provides access to technology, global scale, and ability to sign talent, but faces challenges of legacy branding, scale, and speed.
Yesterday, IBM announced expansion plans for its Interactive Experience professional services practice. The numbers align a bit too perfectly: 10 new labs, $100M investment, and 1,000 new roles.
Third party support provider Rimini Street has launched local operations in Japan. The company estimates that the enterprise software maintenance market in Japan surpasses ¥120 billion per annum.
In an expansion was driven by the company’s continued growth, Spinnaker Support, a provider of Siebel, SAP and JD Edwards third-party maintenance and services, has opened a technology center in Mumbai, India
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A major business transformation is brewing in the enterprise today. Enterprise mobility, business velocity, geographically dispersed, multi-device and multi-generational workforce are converging to deliver the promise of responsive organizations. Organizations that miss this paradigm shift will face dire consequences. How can you effectively manage this shift, ensure that it will be sustainable and reap the benefits of being a responsive organization?