This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
During this CEN Member Chat, Dion Hinchcliffe, VP & principal analyst at Constellation Research, covers his latest research and insights from a new CIO survey.
We are pleased to announce the finalists for the seventh annual SuperNova Awards. The Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize leaders and teams for their innovative application of disruptive technology in business.
Now it's your turn to help the judges decide who will win a SuperNova Award. Cast your votes for the 2017 SuperNova Award winners from September 18 - October 2.
Purpose-Driven Investing, Innovation & the New Value Economy | DisrupTV Ep. 78
In DisrupTV Episode 78, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar are joined by:
The relationship between privacy regulators and technologists can seem increasingly fraught. A string of adverse (and sometimes counter intuitive) privacy findings against digital businesses – including the “Right to be Forgotten”, and bans on biometric-powered photo tag suggestions – have left some wondering if privacy and IT are fundamentally at odds. Technologists may be confused by these regulatory developments, and as a result, uncertain about their professional role in privacy management.
Today Atlassian unveiled Stride (not to be confused with the now defunct SocialCast Strides), their new team collaboration platform that is the culmination of several years worth of research, customer feedback (on their current portfolio), acquisitions and in-house development.
The mega-numbers behind Amazon's second HQ: Amazon is planning to build a second, but equal in scope and stature, headquarters operation and is looking for a U.S. metro area to house it. The scale of the planned project is indeed massive, as the company's press release notes:
I’m happy to announce the launch of the Business Transformation 150, an elite list recognizing the top global executives leading innovative business transformation efforts in their organizations. Congratulations to the leaders named in our new program!
The business-to-business (B2B) marketing world is abuzz about account-based marketing (ABM), which involves a targeted effort to focus marketing campaigns and budgets on a select set of pre-determined accounts.
Oracle's big IoT play: Among large software vendors, Oracle hasn't made quite as much noise about IoT as some others. That has just changed with a pair of announcements it made this week that serve to flesh out its IoT strategy in some detail.
MySQL is available as a service on every major public cloud. Here’s how Oracle MySQL Cloud Service is different.
You’ll find MySQL available as a service on every major public cloud (and plenty of minor ones). So what’s different about the Oracle MySQL Cloud Service, introduced on Oracle Cloud last fall by the owner and current developer of MySQL software?
"Great book." "Perfect time." I expect these are the phrases I'm going to hear a lot about Nilofer Merchant's new book, The Power Of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough To Dent The World. "Great book," because it is. This is an actionable book filled with stories that would have made you glad to read them even if they didn't teach you something. "Perfect time," because of all the conflict in the world and how we need to deepen our discussions around many of the things we may have let slide before.
Trends Surfacing Highlight Greater Orchestration
In March 2016, Constellation introduced four personas of the modern CMO (see Figure 1). This framework provided CMOâs with a model to think about the role of strategy versus execution and audience development versus audience acquisition.
VMWare launches on Amazon Web Services: After shuttering its own public cloud plans, VMWare inked a deal last year with AWS to implement its software-defined data center computing fabric on the cloud giant's server farms. Now the first delivery of that plan has arrived:
I still remember the phone call. I was in Paris attending a Capgemini event when a Microsoft executive called me...
Microsoft: "We need you in Redmond within the next few days."
Me: "Well, I'm going to be at your Worldwide Partner Conference in a few weeks, can we talk then?"
Microsoft: "No, we need to show you something."
Me: "Can we do it via Skype?"
Microsoft: "No, you have to come here and see it."