This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
On Oct 10th IBM announced the release of IBM Notes and Domino v10. Get it, v10 on 10/10? Nice how that works in either MM/DD or DD/MM format. Anyway, as you probably know I started my technology career at IBM as a Lotus Notes administrator and developer using v2 back in 1994.
How the Pan-Industrial Revolution, Pricing Power & Digital Forces Are Reshaping Business | DisrupTV Ep. 127
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 127), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Richard D’Aveni (Professor & Author of The Pan-Industrial Revolution: How New Manufacturing Titans will Transform the World), Celia Fleischaker (Chief Marketing Officer at PROS), and Jon Reed (Co-Founder at Diginomica).
On Sunday afternoon, October 28th 2018, IBM reported that it has reached a definitive agreement to buy all issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share, which values the acquisition at roughly $34B. That will make it the 4th largest technology acquisition in history (trailing Dell buying EMC by an order of magnitude and close to the Qualcomm acquisition of NXP ($38B) and Avago's acquisition of Broadcom ($37B).
The Constellation SuperNova Awards celebrate the leaders and teams who successfully apply emerging and disruptive technologies for their organizations. The 2018 SuperNova Award winners were announced on October 24 at the SuperNova Award Gala. This year's winners demonstrated leadership and foresight, leading successful high-stakes technology implementations that prepared their organizations for the future.
We had the opportunity to attend SAP's developer conference TechED in Las Vegas, held from October 8th till 12th 2018 at the Venetian Conference center. Attendance was not officially disclosed, but from other events held at the same location I'd peg it at 3k+.
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that email was dead. Yet, Microsoft Outlook, Google GMail, and IBM Verse remain critical applications for business people around the world. Likewise, acquisitions in the email market are accelerating. In just the last few months we've seen:
The majority of enterprises today are currently striving with concerted effort to move their organizations into the digital future. Their overarching objective is to drive revenue growth, avoid disruption, and to access all-new business opportunities. Next-generation C-Suite leaders are increasingly focused on ensuring they have the right innovation and delivery capabilities in place at a strategic level to achieve this.
Behind Apple & Impact Leadership: Lessons in Creativity & Purpose | DisrupTV Epi. 125
On DisrupTV Episode 125, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer at Apple and author of Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs, and Avery M. Blank, speaker, impact strategist, women’s leadership expert, policy attorney, and Forbes contributor.
Mastering Venture Mindset, Business Chemistry & the Art of Risk | DisrupTV Ep. 124
In this episode of DisrupTV (Episode 124), hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by Dr.
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