
Enterprise Software: Emergency Apps and Empathy
I was talking to a vendor exec last week and I mentioned the agility and innovation I am seeing in various sectors – agile manufacturing, re-jigged supply chains, reshaped shopping experiences, last-mile delivery, telework, telemedicine, teleschool- as we are fighting…

Coronavirus cruelly exposes the fragility of the offshore outsourcing industry: Will clients trust all their eggs in one basket again when this is over?
The outsourcing industry is fast-becoming be the first vital piece of the global economy to come under the microscope as nations, businesses, and societies try to build a blueprint for what the post-coronavirus economy may look like. India and Russia, in particular, are now being widely seen to have the slowest response to the coronavirus […]

Ten Lessons I am learning through the Corona Crisis
I can’t really say I have already figured it all out since I am still living through it and learning (and fumbling) in real time . But in the spirit of “agile”, I thought I will share what I have so far and see what I can learn from you . 1. Nothing is […]

How Do Future of Work Companies Perform in a Crisis
Last quarter, we launched the Future of Work Global Index to track and benchmark technology companies focused on the transformation of work. The world has changed in just 3 months. The global Coronavirus pandemic has immediately changed global economies, industries, and the future of work itself. A large portion of the workforce has now forcefully […]
The positive impact of COVID-19
Somebody once told me I could make a brown paper bag sound interesting. Not sure if that was a compliment but I do find interesting aspects to most anything. While there is so much doom and gloom around the coronavirus…

Let’s make an antiserum for corona virus
If the corona virus pandemic has you in a funk, it’s time to think outside of the box for possible solutions. We’ve had the bejesus (a…Continue reading on Medium »

Salesforce CEO Benioff regretted scaling back in 2009
Here’s the deal: if you cut your sales hiring and scale back your expectations — you may end up regretting it. Marc Benioff did. In 2008–2009, at the height of the panic, I was at Salesforce and Marc Benioff responded to the (much bigger and real) global economic crisis by cutting back on expenses and hiring fewer sales people. […]

Why Every Organization Must Build A Post Pandemic Playbook #COVID19 #CoronaVirus
Understand The Key Priorities In A Post Pandemic Response Over the past three weeks, Constellation Research, Inc. has fielded hundreds of calls from CXO’s about what to consider in the business and technology response to the coronavirus and Covid-19 fall out. In fact, on Friday April 3rd, Constellation convened a conversation with more than 40 […]

More COVID-19 impact – the age of agility
The one thing I vividly remember from my first few days as an audit rookie at PwC was a class where the instructor said “never forget – an internal control should deliver more savings than the burden it puts on…

COVID-19’s Impact On Tech Spending This Year
The human tragedy the COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted on the world is incalculable and continues to grow. Every human life is priceless and deserves the care needed to sustain it. COVID-19 is also impacting entire industries, causing them to randomly gyrate in unpredictable ways, directly impacting IT and tech spending. COVID-19’s Impact On Industries Computer […]