Why It's Time To Run Digital Enterprises The 'Lean' Way
The digital enterprise, which everyone is striving for these days, isn't a single, cohesive venture that is efficiently processing bits and bytes on one end and delivering instantaneous customer...
View ArticleMobile Technologies Becoming A Growth Engine For Small And Medium Businesses
The top 25% of small & medium enterprises (SMEs) are seeing two times the revenue growth and up to eight times the number of jobscreated based on their adoption of mobile technologies. SMEs that...
View ArticleDespite Early Days, Market Consolidation for The Internet of Things Has...
While the Internet of Things and smart home are seen as exciting new markets, market consolidation has already begun
View ArticleThe Smart Labels That Will Power The Internet Of Things
When people think of IoT technology they usually think of silicon based sensors made by semiconductor companies. These types of sensors can be found tracking data on airplane engines, wind turbines,...
View ArticleBuilding Trust With Digital Marketing At U.S. Bank
Traditional marketing channels – including television, print, even signage – require careful planning and testing, because creative is difficult or impossible to change once it’s live. Digital...
View ArticleA Peek Into My Favorite CEO SaaS Toolbox
Take one look at my computer environment, and you’ll see more tickers, trackers and pop-ups than any information lover like me could possibly want. I probably touch more than 25 digital tools on a...
View ArticleDigital Nomads Are Redefining What It Means To Be Productive
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past 10 months talking about my experience as a digital nomad. Now I want to talk about two interesting people who are encouraging Gen-Y, and future generations, to...
View ArticleKey Take-Aways From Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant For Business Intelligence...
Business Intelligence (BI) platforms grew 9% in 2013, and are projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.7% through 2018. By 2017, the majority of business users and analysts will...
View Article10 Tell-Tale Signs You Are Not In A Digital Enterprise
There’s been a nonstop stream of chatter that it's time for companies to shed the husks of their analog and manual ways and evolve into digital enterprises. It really sounds like the way to go: one,...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Why Employees Should Use Collaboration Tools At Work
VideoWhy should employees use internal collaboration tools to get work done, why not just stick with email? It's a fair question right? I should know, I wrote a 340 page strategy guide called The...
View ArticleThe Real Power Of Social Networks - How Data Is Creating Economic Value
Professional social networks such as LinkedIn are as important to our economy as banks and capital markets. Those network reduces risks in our economy by offering transparency into the job market.
View Article5 Ways IoT Enables Brands to Create Loyal Customers
If you’re not using the Internet of Things to engage your customers, you should be. Earlier this week Jessica Groopman from Altimeter published a thought provoking white paper that recommends 5...
View ArticleThe Industrial Internet: Big Machines, Big Data, Big Impact
You may be familiar with the Internet of Things, a network of connected devices (and people) that is expected to number around 26 billion by the year 2020. To better understand IoT, I recommend that...
View ArticleAdding Intelligence to IIoT in Factories and Utilities
Wearing a pair of technology-augmented glasses an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) assembly line worker stands before an incomplete section of an AirBus 380 aircraft frame, contemplating the...
View ArticleWhat's The Difference Between A Software Product And A Platform?
Back at the early dawn of prehistory, we used to reserve our use of the word platform to denote a complete software programming development environment and underlying subsystem with language, runtime,...
View ArticleDigital Technologies Will Soon Add $1 Trillion-Plus To Global Economy
The increased use of digital technologies could add $1.36 trillion to total global economic output in 2020, according to a recent study by Accenture and Oxford Economics. This may be only a fraction of...
View ArticleEmerging Market Medical Education Goes Digital
A shortage of skilled health workers is an acute and ongoing problem in many emerging markets. Weak medical education systems bear a major part of the blame. But a big opportunity for rapid progress...
View Article56% Of Enterprises Will Increase Their Investment In Big Data Over The Next...
70% of IT decision-makers consider their organization’s ability to exploit value from big data as critical to their future success. 65% say they risk becoming irrelevant and/or uncompetitive if they do...
View ArticleThe Future Of Work Is About Choice
When it came to our work lives, we historically haven't had much choice around how we actually worked (and most of us still don't). We may have the opportunity to pick the company we work for but aside...
View ArticleShedding Light On How Companies View BLE Beacons
Location-based services have been around for years, but recently the market heated up with the introduction of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons. BLE beacons are small sensors that you can attach to...
View ArticleThree Things You Probably Didn't Know about the Future of IoT
I might have found a solution to my vexing fitness problem. As with so many of my personal breakthroughs, the answer was obvious in retrospect. But had it not been for a series of technology purchases...
View ArticleThe Rise Of The Outsiders: This Is Not Your Father's IT Industry
The “IT industry” is being redefined with two major clusters of companies increasingly competing with the incumbents and reshaping the old IT world order.
View ArticleThe Problem With Remote Workers
There is a long conversation that has plodded on now for many moons. That would be the discussion around remote workers that never seems to truly die a noble death it so richly deserves. I have read...
View ArticleInternet of Things: Buzzword or Business Value? An Interview With AT&T's Penrose
The Internet of Things (IoT), like big data, is a hot buzzword. But is IoT actually a new market? The concept of IoT has been around for decades. IoT is an evolution of the Machine to Machine (M2M)...
View ArticleHow (And Why) To Kill Network Hardware
Ericsson is trying to make the “telecom cloud” more open. More specifically, Ericsson is working with Canonical, the company behind commercial support for the Ubuntu operating system (OS) to try to...
View ArticleTactical Applications Are Dead, The World Is Strategically Unstructured
Applications are tactical, generally speaking. That is to say, software application development has been predominantly focused on building applications for defined applied use cases that work with...
View ArticleIn Our Search For Digital Champions, Let's Define What A Digital Champion Is
Lloyd's Banking Group reportedly says it plans to train up to 20,000 "digital champions" who will assist customers with its digital services. They are not the only organization that has taken an...
View ArticleMicrosoft's New Industrial Revolution Of 'Perceptive' Human-Robot Workers
Even in 2015, our first notion of these things called ‘robots’ are the shiny humanoid objects with two arms, two legs and a whirring 360-degree-spinning head that housestwo electronic eyes and a square...
View ArticleHow Can MBaaS Players Get Ready for Internet of Things?
The concept of mobile backend was very impressive in 2012. However, with the entry of over 30 companies in the last couple of years, the market not only became crowded but also fragmented. Today, MBaaS...
View Article'We Go To Cloud Computing To Magnify And Amplify Our Talents, Not Just To...
Cloud computing has many variations and nuances, and everyone is doing something different with it. However, there appear to be four distinct phases to the cloud evolution (or revolution?). We're still...
View ArticleContainers and Microservices Force VMware To Ship A Linux Distribution
VMware is the most unusual and unexpected player in the industry to ship a Linux distribution. Here is an analysis of what forced the virtualization giant to make this move. Not long ago, VMware was a...
View ArticleWhy Social Media Companies Want To Control The Internet Of Things
Social media companies used to focus on connecting people to people. Now they also want to connect to our things.
View ArticleTapping Cloud Computing's Full Potential
Enterprises are realizing only 35% of the value from their workloads already in the cloud. Leading enterprise cloud adopters have migrated nearly two-thirds of their workloads to the cloud, yet the...
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