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Enterprises are going to need any large scale deployment of IoT sensors not only grouped into standalone IoT functional Services, but in turn those IoT Services will need to be integrated into the Enterprises overall existing operations. However valuable IOT driven functional Services might be, if they are standalone, then all the lessons of the last twenty years of IT in creating automated end to end operational business efficiency through integration are being ignored.
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Boardrooms In Market Leader And Fast Follower Organizations Rapidly Take Action To Address the Digital Chasm AheadConstellation Research surveyed over 200 CXO’s and identified 10 board room priorities for 2015. As anticipated, digital transformation has emerged as a significant board room topic and market leaders and fast followers seek guidance on what elements are required in the design to support digital business.
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Boardrooms In Market Leader And Fast Follower Organizations Rapidly Take Action To Address the Digital Chasm Ahead
Constellation Research surveyed over 200 CXO’s and identified 10 board room priorities for 2015. As anticipated, digital transformation has emerged as a significant board room topic and market leaders and fast followers seek guidance on what elements are required in the design to support digital business.
Digital Transformation is defined as methodology in which organizations transform and create new business models and culture with digital technologies. The driver for digital transformation stems from the fact that since 2000, 52 percent of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist.
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Case Study: University of California Office of the President
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The University of California system, a decentralized network of universities, hospitals, and labs, introduced an e-procurement platform to consolidate the procurement activities of the complex system resulting in greater transparency, collaboration, and waste reduction.
McKinsey & Company recently published How Big Data Can Improve Manufacturing which provides insightful analysis of how big data and advanced analytics can streamline biopharmaceutical, chemical and discrete manufacturing. The article highlights how manufacturers in process-based industries are using advanced analytics to increase yields and reduce costs. Manufacturers have an abundance of operational and shop […]
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I’ve had the opportunity to do a couple of workshops on the value of data in support of leadership -- especially leadership without formal authority. A key issue is that the environment is changing such that we have less face-to-face time for leadership. This increases the value of complements to interpersonal leadership, things like training, tools, and feedback from the work itself. A culture of data can also be an excellent complement to leadership.
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R "Ray" Wang, chairman of Constellation Research and bestselling author of Disrupting Digital Business, shares what you can gain by joining our innovative leaders community, the Constellation Executive Network. If you are not a member yet, we'd love to help you get started. You'd join our analysts in this private community to talk shop and solve business problems in real time. < 90 second video
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My last post here on Sensei blogs shared some statistics that demonstrate the disruptive effect of smart phones on the photography habits of consumers. Mobile technology and devices have had a disruptive influence on many aspects of our lives beyond digital photography, which, in turn, has disrupted how businesses must engage consumers. Mobile is Disrupting Traditional Loyalty Read More
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Understanding customer taste and their buying patterns remains a tricky exercise. The story of L.L. Bean and their snow boots is a great example of how challenging it is to accurately predict demand. The Maine clothing and outdoor company is already sold out of their iconic boot. According to the Yahoo report, click here, there is already a 100,000 name long waiting list for the boot. Wow. Talk about a good problem to have, well maybe....
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Here are my takeaways of the two weeks:And here is the content:
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An Engadget report today, "Hangouts eavesdrops on your chats to offer 'smart suggestions'" describes a new "spy/valet" feature being added to Google's popular video chat tool.
"Google's Hangouts is gaining a handy, but slightly creepy new feature today. The popular chat app will now act as a digital spy-slash-valet by eavesdropping on your conversations to offer 'smart suggestions.' For instance, if a pal asks 'where are you?' it'll immediately prompt you to share your location, then open a map so you can pin it precisely."
It's sad that this sort of thing still gets meekly labeled as "creepy". The privacy implications are serious and pretty easy to see.
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Here is something to tickle your retail supply chain – we are under 15 days until Christmas. Avoiding the debate over the mass commercialization of the holidays, the reality is that consumers will, or already have, started their shopping engines. … Continue reading →
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New Industry Apps Demonstrate Proficiency of Third-Generation Enterprise Mobile Apps
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This report analyzes the first wave of industry-specific enterprise solutions produced by the IBM MobileFirst for iOS applications partnership.
Learn about the 9 C's of Customer Engagement, the basic building blocks of customer engagement optimization.
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An explanation of the importance of Channels, Content, and Cadence in the 9 C's of Customer Engagement, the basic building blocks of customer engagement optimization.
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The first of 9 C's of Customer Engagement, the basic building blocks of customer engagement optimization.
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An explanation of the importance of Context, Catalysts, and Currency in the 9 C's of Customer Engagement, the basic building blocks of customer engagement optimization.
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The IBM-Apple Partnership Achieves First Milestones
On December 10th, IBM and Apple announced the first wave of industry-specific enterprise solutions as part of the IBM MobileFirst for iOS applications. In a meeting with Fred Balboni, IBM’s general manager of the Apple partnership; and Jeremy Butcher, Apple Marketing and Strategy, Constellation received an update on the progress of the industry-specific Apple iOS apps.
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I wrote a post earlier this week about a number of hardware trends that will impact your supply chain, those are all in place today, already impacting supply chain and will only grow in significance. But here is one that is futuristic – V2V (vehicle to vehicle). Why would a driverless vehicle impact my supply chain you may ask?
Of course the biggest impact will be on making road safer, make cars more energy efficient, reduce congestion to name few. But this enhanced hardware also has the potential to impacting your supply chains.
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A test question; Your IT systems have just been publically hacked via your new Digital Business? Your biggest competitor has just been publically praised for the speed of its online responses for its Digital Business including its integration to its existing internal IT systems. Can you honestly say that you know if your approach, implementation and operation are competitively good enough, or even if your overall technology approach is embracing best practice?
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The recent weeks and days have shown a lot of movement in the email space – with IBM announcing Verse and Microsoft buying accompli recently.
It’s simply fascinating to me that the piece of software being used most by users, spend most time on is still… fundamentally broken. Yes email gets the usage and adoption, but that is largely because we have to use it. Ask anyone if 20, 30, 60 minutes of email have been a joyful experience? Could we come to the point were doing more email makes users happier?
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How many of your customers are using their mobile device appendages to capture photos? A study conducted by Edelman and Shutterfly this year reports that 81% of US photo-takers (people who have taken at least 10 digital photos in the three months prior to polling) have done so using their smart phones.
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Hardware has been pushed to the back pages a lot of times – what is cool is the software that sits on the hardware. We don’t want to be bothered with thinking of servers, smartphones, computers, tablets, touch screens, televisions, appliances etc etc…we just want our apps! But hardware is making a come back, at least in the cool category. There are some changes coming to your supply chain…that being powered by changing hardware.
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