Surviving Digital Disruption: How's Your Innovation Culture?
The buzz: “Research by McKinsey revealed 94% of surveyed executives were dissatisfied with their company´s innovative performance.” (entrepreneur.com) Since digital disruption started, survival in our...
View ArticleUX 2018: User Experiences for a New Generation
The buzz: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” (S.Jobs). Remember your anticipation when you got your first smartphone? Your curiosity the first time you typed...
View ArticleDigital Footprints: Mining the Data in Your Operations
The buzz: “Process mining, if used right, can identify alternative courses, patterns and common mistakes” (M. Paz). Are you losing a week between the time you ship an order and the time you invoice,...
View ArticleDoes Anybody Really Know Where We Are?
The buzz: “GIS technology will evolve into a nervous system for our planet” (Jack Dangermond). The Internet of Things is connecting billions of devices, capturing reams of data to be mined. Where are...
View ArticleThe Data-Driven Enterprise: More with Less
The buzz: “ Top-performing companies are able to differentiate themselves…their ability to use the right data at the right time for conclusive decision-making” (tibco.com). If your company is like...
View ArticleEncore: UX 2018: User Experiences for a New Generation
The buzz: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works” (S.Jobs). Remember your anticipation when you got your first smartphone? Your curiosity the first time you typed...
View ArticleData, Data Everywhere: But Why Can't We Trust It?
The buzz: “What we have is a data glut. What we really want is the ability to manipulate the information and to reach conclusions from it” (Vernor Vinge). Good news: Companies have more data at their...
View ArticleSize Matters: The Big Deal About Big Data and Your Business
The buzz: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” (Jim Barksdale) The topic of Big Data has been gaining traction since 2010. What’s the big deal? Big...
View ArticleReach Out and Collaborate: Long-distance Innovation?
The buzz: “Well-managed dispersed teams can actually outperform those that share office space...must-haves: the right team, the right leadership, the right touchpoints, and the right technology” (Keith...
View ArticleAI Is For Humans
The buzz: “As ML starts to power more and more products and experiences, let’s step up to our responsibility to stay human-centered” (Josh Lovejoy, https://medium.com). We’re in the era of IoT, Machine...
View ArticleEnterprise Architecture: Design Success Into Digital Transformation
The buzz: “Enterprise Architecture requires such a diversity of skills that EAs really need to be the renaissance men and women of IT” (Anna Mar). Your digital transformation to an Intelligent...
View ArticleLife without Cloud in 2019?
The buzz: “Everyone has an opinion on the ‘cloud’ and its effect on business – some believe it is dark and scary and fraught with unnecessary risk, while others would argue it’s silver lined and the...
View ArticleMaster Your Data Before It Masters You!
The buzz: If it is frequently changing, it probably isn’t master data” (blog.westmonroepartners.com). Out of view of most business users, enterprise data landscapes are dynamic and continually...
View ArticleWill Bots Drive Business Transformation?
The buzz: The worst business decision you can make is no decision (John Peace). The move to an Intelligent Enterprise is not just about technology decisions. It's about moving from emotion-based to...
View ArticleEnterprise Data Management: Holistic Evolution
The buzz: … we will see intelligence in the form of machine learning survivorship … algorithms which ‘learn’ how records survive and will, therefore, use these results to make predictions about which...
View ArticleSpatial Intelligence: Unlocking Our Power
The buzz: “80% of the 2.5 exabytes of big data generated everyday is geographic” (ehjournal.biomedcentral.com). The discovery of spatial insights for your business starts with where questions: Where...
View ArticleDigital Transformation Innovation: Turning Competitors Into Partners
The buzz: “…are there times when it makes sense to work with your competition instead of against them? … when co-opetition, not competition, is a smart move? Absolutely” (Craig Bloem). Innovative...
View ArticleEncore: Will Bots Drive Business Transformation?
The buzz: The worst business decision you can make is no decision (John Peace). The move to an Intelligent Enterprise is not just about technology decisions. It's about moving from emotion-based to...
View ArticleTime to Turn Your Data Into Money: But How?
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it. … What is the secret sauce you have within your data...
View ArticleDigital Transformation: Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Models
The buzz: “There is no alternative to digital transformation. Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves…those that don’t adapt, will fail” (R. Berger). The pace of...
View ArticleLeapfrog Your Competition: The Essential Technology Guide
The buzz: “We live in a data-driven world that requires digital dexterity and customer-first innovation… [but] changing the status quo and an entire culture to prioritize long-term digital...
View ArticleEncore: Time to Turn Your Data Into Money: But How?
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it. … What is the secret sauce you have within your data...
View ArticleEncore: Leapfrog Your Competition: The Essential Technology Guide
The buzz: “We live in a data-driven world that requires digital dexterity and customer-first innovation… [but] changing the status quo and an entire culture to prioritize long-term digital...
View ArticleYour Digital Transformation: Lessons from Giants and Upstarts
The buzz: Data matters to every business. So it follows that every business needs a data strategy (Bernard Marr www.forbes.com). A data strategy is an enterprise-wide blueprint tailored to an...
View ArticleDigital Transformation: Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Models -...
The buzz: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much (Helen Keller). How can your company innovate in new ways beyond leveraging enabling technologies like IoT, AI, Machine Learning and...
View ArticleTurn Your Data Into Money: But How? - Part 2
The buzz: “Data Monetization is a tremendously gooey subject. It can mean so many different things and almost everybody has a different twist on it…What is the secret sauce you have within your data...
View ArticleAI Is For Humans Part 2
The buzz: “As ML starts to power more and more products and experiences, let’s step up to our responsibility to stay human-centered, find the unique value for people, and make every experience great”...
View ArticleJourney to the Cloud: Powerful Business Outcomes for the Experience Economy
The buzz: Businesses in our Experience Economy must orchestrate memorable events for customers. That memory becomes the product, the experience. Experience-based services drive economic growth in many...
View ArticleDigital Transformation Enabling Technologies and New Partnership Model...
The buzz: Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much (Helen Keller). The pace of change in industry has forced organizations to focus on their core competency and select partners for...
View ArticleThe Intelligent Enterprise: Data Assets and Your Digital Ecosystem
The buzz: “Data! data! data …I can't make bricks without clay” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #12). Intelligent Enterprises know how to use their data assets to achieve desired outcomes faster and...
View ArticleMapping Your Business Networks: Hidden Connections Enable Trust
The buzz: “The graph paradigm goes well beyond databases and application development; it’s a reimagining of what’s possible around the idea of connections.” (neo4j.com) A major inhibitor in business is...
View ArticleBig Data Journey: Dataquake, Human Data Exhausts, and Now Machine Learning?
The buzz: Big data is a familiar term. Data exhaust is less widely known, tends to be raw, unstructured, and even bigger. In some ways it's an evil twin brother. (computerworld.com) While humans began...
View ArticleYour CIO’s Full-Enterprise Integration Lynchpin: Open Connectors
The buzz: “APIs are the unsung heroes of the connected world.” (businessinsider.com) Cloud migration continues to accelerate, with AWS’s 1M business customers in 2015 growing to 2.6M+ today, and Google...
View ArticleJourney to the Cloud: Part 2
The buzz: “The term Experience Economy was first used in a 1998 article by B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore, describing the economy after the agrarian economy, industrial economy, and most recent...
View ArticleInconceivable? Data Scientists and IT on the Same Page!
The buzz: “Why do only 13% of data science projects, or just one out of every 10, actually make it into production?…Data scientists have been around since the 1950s — individuals sitting in a basement...
View ArticleGet To Work! How AI Is Transforming the Labor Market
The buzz: “AI is developing at whirlwind rates. While nobody can say for certain how it will impact our work and personal lives, we can make a good few educated guesses…with COVID-19 limiting human...
View ArticleAI Is For Humans – Part 3
The buzz: “From a business standpoint, human-centered AI solutions leverage human science and qualitatively thick data to understand the deeper needs, aspirations and drivers that underlie customer...
View ArticleGenerating Value from Data: From Pious Wish to Reality
The buzz: “Many organisations are looking to make significant investments in data assets, but without the appropriate strategy, they run the risk of putting the cart before the horse and making poor...
View ArticleJourney to the Cloud: Accelerating Post-Covid Transformation
The buzz: “CEOs are looking ahead to their post-Covid challenges. Nowhere is this challenge more daunting than figuring out if the global pandemic and its far-reaching impacts have created a temporary...
View ArticleIoT Trends 2021: Ripped from the Headlines
The buzz: Big Think (https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/nikola-tesla-2) discovered a visionary quote by Nikola Tesla in a 1926 interview with Collier’s magazine where he described the modern-day...
View ArticleHeads Up: Cloud Adoption Strategy Insider Tips
The buzz: What drives IT executives to initiate cloud migration? Deloitte’s survey of more than 500 IT leaders and executives reveals that security and data protection is the top driver. With 58...
View ArticleIoT In the News: Ripped from the Headlines – Part 2
The buzz: Big Think (https://bigthink.com/words-of-wisdom/nikola-tesla-2) discovered a visionary quote by Nikola Tesla [1856–1943] in a 1926 interview with Collier’s magazine where he described the...
View ArticleExcel At Your Job, All Day, Every Day: Intelligent Automation
The buzz: “It’s imperative that you find the right balance between automation and human intelligence within your business. Automation is shy; it’s great for boring, repetitive tasks behind the scenes,...
View ArticleHeads Up: Cloud Adoption Strategy Insider Tips – Part 2
The Buzz: “What drives IT executives to initiate cloud migration? Deloitte’s survey of more than 500 IT leaders and executives reveals that security and data protection is the top driver…increasingly...
View ArticleWinning with Data Ecosystems: Real Innovation for Value Creation
The Buzz 1: “Simply put, a data ecosystem is a platform that combines data from numerous providers and builds value through the usage of processed data.” (mckinsey.com) The Buzz 2: “Data ecosystems...
View ArticleEncore The Intelligent Enterprise: Data Assets and Your Digital Ecosystem
The Buzz: “Data! data! data …I can't make bricks without clay” (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #12). Intelligent Enterprises know how to use their data assets to achieve desired outcomes faster and...
View ArticleThe Second Cloud Wave: Delivering Enterprise-Scale Intelligence
The Buzz: On August 20, 2014, Maamar Ferkoun (AP IBM–Cloud Computing & Cognitive Technologies) wrote, “The flexibility and scalability of the cloud acts as an ideal complement to business...
View ArticleBusiness Network Insights: Tomorrow’s Competitive Differentiator
The Buzz: “Why doesn’t a company know that a target customer has connections to an existing customer? Why doesn’t it automatically see that a new customer may be involved with a company that engaged in...
View ArticleCreating The Sustainable Enterprise In 2022 and Beyond
The Buzz 1: “We have a single mission: to protect and hand on the planet to the next generation.” (Francois Hollande) The Buzz 2: “It’s a collective endeavor, it’s collective accountability and it may...
View ArticleAI and Data Governance – Friends or Foes?
The Buzz 1: Data governance the organizational framework…to understand where your data originated, how it was handled, and the goals your AI platform and machine learning models set out to achieve.”...
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