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Earlier today Salesforce announced that it was extending its Salesforce1 PaaS capabilities with the addition of Lightning Components, a faster way to build apps by users who don’t code (the AppBuilder) and adding components as a section to the Salesforce Marketplace (“AppExchange for Components).
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Constellation is pleased to announce social psychologist and Harvard Business School professor, Amy Cuddy is speaking at Connected Enterprise. Cuddy studies how adopting certain postures affects performance — in job interviews and public speeches — and changes thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and physiology. Cuddy’s TED Talk on this topic has been viewed over 24 million times. She was one of TIME magazine’s 2012 Game Changers, Business Insider’s 50 Women Who Are Changing the World in 2013, and in 2014 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Her book Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges is due to be released in fall 2015.
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Below is my video recap of a few of the key social business stories of the week.Here are links to the stories mentioned:
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There appears to be an internal LinkedIn effort to lock down access to the social graph by scrapers. Based on conversations with over a dozen LinkedIn partners, many old time partners have had their LinkedIn feed access cancelled or terminated over the past 6 months. The goal is to keep partners who may have been building new services and potentially competitive services on the LinkedIn social graph from gaining access. These partner remain miffed at why they were curtailed access and in many cases unsure what LinkedIn’s future business model will be.Unfortunately, the measures taken, may have been too harsh and users were caught in the cross fire. The good news – LinkedIn did recognize the impact on users and the perception this had on their access to their data. Kudos for the relatively fast response.
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Curtailment Of @LinkedIn Downloadable Contacts Breaks Sacred Rules Of Digital Business
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No-one will argue that the level of disruption for technology buyers and sellers is at an all time high. Everything is up for the disruption and will be for the foreseeable term in business time-frames. Therefore every option to win needs to be considered.Multi brand approaches are real. They work for airlines, retail, hotel chains, auto manufacturers and many other sectors of the economy so why have IT solution providers not considered a multi-brand approach.
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In 2002, a couple of Japanese visitors to Australia swapped passports with each other before walking through an automatic biometric border control gate being tested at Sydney airport. The facial recognition algorithm falsely matched each of them to the others' passport photo. These gentlemen were in fact part of an international aviation industry study group and were in the habit of trying to fool biometric systems then being trialed round the world.
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Cloud-based business intelligence, data visualization and analytics options are gaining momentum as the center of data gravity shifts along with apps and services. But be prepared for a hybrid world. … Continue reading →
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Every year the Constellation SuperNova Awards recognize eight individuals for their leadership in digital business. Nominate yourself or someone you know by August 7, 2015.The SuperNova Awards honor leaders that demonstrate excellence in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies.
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Honor your organization's CMO or innovative business leader by nominating them for a SuperNova Award. The SuperNova Awards honor leaders that demonstrate excellence in the application and adoption of new and emerging technologies. SuperNova Award Winner: Lynn Hemans, Director, Industry & Competitive Insights, Taco BellLynn Hemans oversaw an integrated Twitter campaign to drive customer engagement and derive insights from social actions during the launch of Taco Bell's most successful product--the Doritos Locos Taco. The campaign produced insights on which Taco Bell could easily act, and created an avenue for enthusiastic customers to interact directly with the brand and other enthusiastic customers. The actionable insights combined with the social campaign created viral buzz for the product. After launching, Taco Bell sold 200m+ Doritos Locos Tacos in six months.
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Vendor Profile: GoodData This vendor profile provides an overview of GoodData and identifies key differentiators, product offerings, and a short list guide for buyers.
I have exercised my systems of patience, after using my systems of reading to dive into the blog and research published (sorry, posted using their systems of writing, editing, and publication) by Forrester recently.I had to use my patience not to react using what my daughters call my “catch phrase” — Aw, come on!!Seriously – is everything becoming a system now? I groaned at the birth of Systems of Engagement (possibly as a potential alter-ego to the forever-there-but-never-named-so systems of record… AKA CRM). Downright exploded and made my feelings known at the “systems of intelligence” (aka analytics). But this is where I feel I have to put down my proverbial foot and say enough is enough.
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As the technology wave relentless refocuses attention around Internet based technologies all of the current leading Technology Vendors have moved to reposition their products and capabilities. The resulting re alignments will also have to apply to IT departments to ensure that they are similarly aligned to both these new product sets, but most of all to the new Enterprise Business internal redesign of operations.
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When you are head down working on projects, developing new business and just keeping it all together, it’s easy to miss business milestones – like your first year in business.The initial idea for Disruptor’s Handbook came from a lunchtime meeting with my former colleagues at PwC. We were talking about the concept of “disruption” and how it could be managed. Used for innovation. Simon Gibbard suggested that we write a handbook – a disruptor’s handbook. Tim Lovitt and I had topic ideas and thought we could pull together a blog. Or an ebook. Or something.
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Reddit’s forums are famous for hosting some of the most vibrant and some of the most disturbing (my personal opinion) discussions on the Web. The New York Times article by Jason Henry stated, “Mr.
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It’s time for another edition of Infographic Friday. Today’s content comes to us from Genesco Sports Enterprises (@GSE_Sports) and it includes some great statistics from this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup, including: Tournament viewership and associated ad revenue Social media impressions and buzz U.S. Soccer fan demographics.
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Identity online is a vexed problem. The majority of Internet fraud today can be related to weaknesses in the way we authenticate people electronically. Internet identity is terribly awkward too. Unfortunately today we still use password techniques dating back to 1960s mainframes that were designed for technicians, by technicians.And yet the identity problem is still with us. Why is identity online so strangely resistant to these well-meaning efforts to fix it? In particular, why is federated identity so dramatically easier said than done?
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Report from the field at Ceridian Insights - Ceridian demonstrates momentum and product differentiation.
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Is your organization ready for the 21st Century? Do you understand the increasing pressures on organizational structure and management? Is your organization’s design and leadership approach ready to face these demands? These are the questions twenty-eight senior executives from the U.S., Colombia, India, Oman, and Thailand addressed as we worked together to leverage old and new strategies for their organizations and careers. The occasion was Northwestern University’s 21st Century Management executive program. The phrase, “scanning the future” is drawn from the last segment of my sessions.I promised the participants additional readings (building on my earlier, Summer Reading List), and hope others will add to what I have here via the comments. I’ll also include the pre-readings we used to prepare for each segment.
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We had the opportunity to attend the Couchbase user conference in San Jose back in June. The event had record attendance and was held in an usual setting, the 49ers new Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Despite being a stadium, the event was well accommodated very well in the facility, which caters well to similar events of the size.
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How many of you have waited for the “cable guy” or “phone person” or experienced customer service that just wasn’t close to being the experience you wish the brands you do business with would provide? Most people have had at least one, and in many instances, many experiences that were not up to par and in some cases that poor experience created a distrust of the brand. People don’t expect companies to be perfect. But they do expect companies to care.
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Save $1400 by registering before July 31, 2015Register now for Constellation’s Connected Enterprise. Constellation’s Connected Enterprise is an immersive innovation summit for executives using digital technologies to transform their organizations. This three-day executive retreat features mind-expanding keynotes, early adopter panel discussions, and 1:1 interviews with the biggest names in disruptive tech. The Connected Enterprise mission: identify the technology trends that will enable executives dominate digital business.
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Steve Wilson describes how smart devices in the Internet of Things are smart enough to control data flows and protect their users’ identity and privacy.
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I'm attending the Ceridian user conference, Insights, this week in Las Vegas. The event is well attended with a record 2000+ attendees. Let’s look at the top 3 takeaways from the keynote today:...
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