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My first impressions of ‘SAP Cloud for planning’.
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New research conducted by Constellation Research shows rapid change in the workplace as many companies adopt mobile technologies. Survey results revealed mobile transformation as a top priority for over eighty percent of respondents with eighty-two percent of responses indicating the presence of dedicated mobile transformation teams at their organizations. Data also indicated work trending away from the static desktop. More than fifty percent of respondents reported switching between devices more than six times per day, and traditional desktop computers are only used one-third of the time.
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In Q4 2014 Constellation Research surveyed over 500 organizations of at least 1,000 employees in the education, healthcare, high tech and retail industries to determine the current state of mobile transformation. This report uncovers three core areas:
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How to Navigate the Future of Work amid Cultural and Technological Shifts in the Mobile Enterprise
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Analysis of survey data to assesses the state of mobile transformation. Emphasis on how mobile and cloud computing trends affect the future of work.
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Convert Average Sales Teams into Top Performers Using Social Networks
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Best practices for implementing social selling in your organization.
Part 4; The Enterprise Digital Business Platform; integrating the functions of a Digital Business together into a cohesive Enterprise.The Digital Business transformation of how an enterprise does business through its Buy and Sell operations is frequently a creating of immense value and quite quickly too. However success brings its own challenges, namely the difficulties of integration an enterprise’s capability for order fulfillment via its internal processes for adding value.
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This morning Pivotal informed the world on three major announcements, the creation of a BigData Product Suite, a partnership with Hortonworks and the launch of an ‘Open Data Platform’. Let's analyze the implications of these announcements.
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How can business users make sense of all the data that is being collected? Business users speak in business terms – lead conversion rates, reducing churn, increasing customer lifetime value. And that is NOT SQL language. However, to make better decisions about their campaigns and their overall business, they do need to use big data insights.
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In January, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini announced to employees that the company was raising its minimum wage from $12 to $16 per hour, and announced an improved health benefit for lower-income employees.Why? The positive effect of higher wages on morale, health, and turnover are the obvious answers, but there is more on Bartolini’s mind. Income inequality creates several substantial risks. See how companies are heading off these risks.
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I would like to explain how Anticipatory Analytics should work – and give you an idea of what the value is. This is, in essence, what predictive analytics should’ve been in generation 1.0, and how we evolve from that definition of predictive to today’s model. As I mentioned before, I see predictive as being badly implemented more than anything and am hoping this model can improve and replace those faulty implementations.
The outcome for this model: explore the art of the possible.
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For business to generate value from their investments in social initiatives, integrated programs need to be rolled out across five dimensions:...
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In the marketing industry, we have been talking, writing and even creating a shift in the way that we do business for over a decade. Early blogs and (what is now called) social media provided an inkling into where the shift was going – away from paid media into “owned” and “earned” media.
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I don’t know about you, but I do worry about cybercrime. I just got another notice in the mail from a company saying that they “may have had a security breach.” The security of CRM or customer data is clearly something that customers care about. Its become so common that it’s almost not a shocker when […]
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A colleague recently shared this Washington Post article with me: This year, I resolve to ban laptops from my classroom. Yes, I have seen the studies about long-hand versus typed notes (long-hand wins). But that is comparing across one dimension -- something everyone in any of my classes or workshops knows is not what you want to do.
Your learning experience or meeting is not about lecture and taking a test... or at least it shouldn't be. It should be about the full process: The best course design or collaboration using the best tools (electronic or not), designed to work in the best way with your own skills, context, and needs.
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Dating is big business. There are generic dating sites designed to help you find a date, a life partner or someone just to hang out with. There are also incredibly focused dating sites that are designed to introduce you to other people who have the same particular passions and interests as you. Maybe you are […]
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The February 13th, 2015 Wall Street Journal story spotlighted many of the rumors around the developments behind Apple going into the car business. Framed around challenging Tesla Motors, the story discussed how Apple may be putting together an Apple branded electric vehicle. Vice President Steve Zadesky of iPod and iPad fame is said to be leading the charge with a mandate to hire up to 1000 folks both internally and externally for the code named Titan project. Apple has neither confirmed nor denied any elements of the Wall Street Journal story (see Video 1).
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Predictive analytics is finally changing.Instead of trying to predict behavior step-by-step as most predictive applications do, why not use the pattern as a loose guideline of a sought outcome, break down the steps, and consider the many options available at each step?
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The White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection was hosted at Stanford University on Friday February 13. I followed the event from Sydney, via the live webcast.
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SAP had their first anual analyst meeting in San Francisco and it was a good time to catch up on overall progress almost 6 months after SuccessConnect in Las Vegas (my takeaways here).
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This is a repost of my analysis of the Right to be Forgotten. Original post published September 30, 2014. The European Court of Justice recently ruled on the so-called "Right to be Forgotten" granting members of the public limited rights to request that search engines like Google suppress links to Personal Information under some circumstances. The decision has been roundly criticised by technologists, by American libertarians, and even by some privacy advocates. Objections are raised on various grounds; the one I want to answer here is that search engines should not have to censor "facts" retrieved from the "public domain".
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Over the past few weeks I have been meeting with a number of supply chain services companies who are talking about and focusing on developing solutions that will allow users to be laser focused with demand sensing and shaping. Very interesting and exciting for supply chains – these supply chains strive to eliminate or at least control the lumpiness associated with their demand patterns.
However this begets a question – is this necessarily good?
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The success of every department depends on the CxO’s fluency of the apps and underlying cloud technology that, both, power and are produced by organizations in the digital age. Consequently, all CxOs should be aware of major trends in cloud technology. I’ve identified nine of these cloud trends in my latest piece of research, “Nine Cloud Trends Every CxO Needs to Know in 2015”. This report provides a comprehensive first look at these key trends and allows CxOs to familiarize themselves with them and then drive to first actions and conclusions for their respective enterprise.
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The State of Cloud in 2015 and Beyond
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A high-level and comprehensive analysis of key trends in the cloud space in 2015 and beyond.
Your Enterprise has had amazing productivity improvements in its manufacturing operations for a low investment by adding Sensing to critical points in the flow process. The sensors are spread across the entire internal material and process flow from warehouse to inspection in an Intranet of Things. Logically the next move is to use the Internet of Things externally to add the same capabilities to the flow of materials from its suppliers.
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