Protected: When heroes die
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Digital innovation transcends roles, requires unique skills mashup
Just over a year ago, I pre-ordered stickers that serve as location beacons. After a few delays, I received them in the mail yesterday along with a handwritten note from Estimote CEO Jakub Krzych. The tiny beacons are designed to make unintelligent things intelligent to allow them to sense and communicate, and to help Read More The post Digital innovation transcends roles, requires unique skills…
Data, Analytics, & Algorithms: Bedrocks of Future Organizations
Billions of decisions are being made in organizations as you re reading this blog post; Strategic decisions. Hiring decisions. Purchasing decisions. Technology decisions. The cumulative impact of today s decisions will impact the success of organizations in the coming weeks, months, years, and decades. These decisions are being made within a cauldron of change; where roles are Read More The post…
Beware the danger of false precision and over expectations
We are living in an era of of titanic shifts; an era where significant changes happen in comparatively short amounts of time. 10 years ago, smartphones didn t exist. Now we can t live without them. Companies like Slack and Uber have gone from pre-existent to multi-billion dollar valuations in less than 5 years. We are staring Read More The post Beware the danger of false precision and over…
Updated thoughts / probabilities of SFDC acquisition $CRM
(Note: This is 100% pure speculation and is based on only publicly available insider information) Upon initial rumors, I shared some brief thoughts on Twitter about a potential SFDC acquisition. $SFDC speculation: ORCL is 1st to come to mind. IBM makes sense. SAP potential; not likely. MSFT a stretch. HP / Cisco interesting. #SFDC Read More The post Updated thoughts / probabilities of SFDC…
Technology assuming role of the enterprise subconscious
Nobel Prize winner, psychologist, an behavioral economist Daniel Kahneman has dedicated much of his 50+ year career to studying human judgement and decision making. In his best selling book Thinking Fast and Slow , he describes two primary systems of thinking figuratively named System 1 and System 2 . He sums them up as follows: • Read More The post Technology assuming role of the enterprise…
Rich Communication and its Impact on the Enterprise
The year was 1996. I had just signed up for Hotmail a free email service. I had recently been introduced to email something I rarely used, but was increasingly relying on it, especially to communicate with friends who were far away. But Hotmail was amazing. It was free (we take this for granted Read More The post Rich Communication and its Impact on the Enterprise appeared first on Value Creator .
The Cloud keeps attempting to disintermediate the CIO
The cloud. It s remarkable. The widely available and rapidly growing source of the greatest computing power and storage capability ever known to man continues to unleash the rapid spread of new innovations. It allows unthinkable productivity miracles to happen anywhere at anytime with a nonchalant finger swipe across a 5 inch pane of gorilla glass. Read More The post The Cloud keeps attempting to…
Immersive Experiences: Changing (and extending) Our World
Last month I spent some time with more than 150,000 people from 140 countries at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. There were over 3,600 exhibitors spread out across several venues. I had the privilege to see and speak with many of them. As I drove back home through the California desert, and in the weeks Read More The post Immersive Experiences: Changing (and extending) Our World appeared first on Value…
Technology’s role in value creation and growth
Do you want to retain/increase your value? Do that which cannot be codified. Do you want to grow? Leverage technology to automate everything that can be codified. The post Technology s role in value creation and growth appeared first on Value Creator .