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Coming soon! Disrupting Digital Business – The Book

Coming soon! Disrupting Digital Business – The Book

By R "Ray" Wang on October 12, 2014

The Wait Is Over! I am excited to announce Disrupting Digital Business will be published by Harvard Business Review Press for world wide availability in Q2 2015.  As many of you know, I started this journey to write a book almost 4 years ago.  It was around the time I had decided to leave Altimeter […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged @harvardbiz, Apps Strategy, Big Data, Big Data Business Models, business technology, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Consumerization of IT, CTO, CXO, Design thinking, digital, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, Digital Divide, Digital DNA, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, Disrupting Digital Business, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Emerging Technologies, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Fast Followers, Harvard Business Review Press, Leadership, management strategy, Market Leaders, Organizational Design, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Monday’s Musings: Who Gets To Be A Chief Digital Officer?

Monday’s Musings: Who Gets To Be A Chief Digital Officer?

By R "Ray" Wang on August 4, 2014

 The Chief Digital Officer Navigates Digital Disruption… Chief Digital Officers serve as a leader who is wholly responsible and ultimately accountable for driving digital business transformation.  As identified by Constellation in its’ recent report on the “Case For the Chief Digital Officer”, Constellation expects this executive to report directly to the CEO and bridge the gap […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apps Strategy, Big Data, Big Data Business Models, business technology, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Consumerization of IT, CTO, CXO, Design thinking, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, Digital Divide, Digital DNA, Digital Transformation, digitaltransformation, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, Emerging Technologies, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, Fast Followers, Leadership, management strategy, Market Leaders, Organizational Design, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy

Insights From GE’s Global Innovation Barometer Show Executives Need To Be Disruption Ready

Insights From GE’s Global Innovation Barometer Show Executives Need To Be Disruption Ready

By R "Ray" Wang on June 23, 2014

Disruption, Collaboration, and The Future Of Work Highlighted In Latest Edition Last week, June 16, 2014, GE unveiled the 2014 results for its “Global Innovation Barometer“. In the 4th annual survey, the GE team commissioned Edelman Berland to phone interview 3209 senior business executives between April 2, 2014 and May 30, 2014.  Interviewees represented VP […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged analytics, Apps Strategy, Big Data, Big Data Business Models, BigData, business disruption, business impact, Business Transformation, business value, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, CMO, co creation, co-innovation, collaboration, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, COO, Corporate Strategy, CTO, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, CXO, Data to Decisions, Design thinking, Digital Business, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, future of business, future of work, GE, General Electric, Industial Internet, Internet of Things, IoT, Monday's Musings, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy | 1 Response

Event Report: #AdobeSummit Celebrates Digital Marketing From Creative To Commerce

Event Report: #AdobeSummit Celebrates Digital Marketing From Creative To Commerce

By R "Ray" Wang on April 1, 2014

Market Leaders And Fast Followers Celebrate A Decade Of Digital Marketing Vision In 2004, Omniture founder Josh James, an avid skier, held the first Summit atop the Snowbird Ski Resort for 270 early adopters and converted.  Fast forward eleven years to 2014, an estimated 7000 customers, partners, influencers, and prospects gathered at the Salt Palace […]

Posted in Business | Tagged 2014, adobe, Adobe Summit, analytics, Apps Strategy, B2B, B2B E-commerce, B2C, B2C E-commerce, Big Data, BigData, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, community platforms, Constellation Research, CRM, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, CXO, Design thinking, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, ECommerce, Elastic Path, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, event report, Identity, Intershop, marketing, Marketing Automation, Marketing strategy, mass personalization, Mass Personalization At Scale, Matrix Commerce, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, Next Gen CXP, NextGen, NextGenCXP, personalization, personalization at scale, R "Ray" Wang;, real-time, Right time, rwang0, sap, SAP Hybris, Software Insider, Software Vendors, SoftwareInsider, user group event, user strategy, vendor strategy, Vishal Sikka | 3 Responses

The Digital Business Disruption Ahead Preview – NASSCOM India Leadership Forum (#NASSCOM_ILF)

The Digital Business Disruption Ahead Preview – NASSCOM India Leadership Forum (#NASSCOM_ILF)

By R "Ray" Wang on February 15, 2014

A 10-Minute Preview Video Interview Of The Digital Business Disruption Ahead From The #NASSCOM_ILF Team On January 17th, 2014, the NASSCOM team interviewed Constellation Research about the digital disruption ahead.  The short 10 minute video covers key topics including: Convergence of the five pillars of digital business drive the current digital disruption. The end of […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #Nasscom_ILF, 2014, 3D printing, Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, Apps Strategy, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Sales Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, Cognitive Computing, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, CTO, Customer Experience, customer relationship management (CRM), Data to Decisions, Design thinking, digital, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, Digital Divide, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, Digital Strategy, DigitalBiz, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, Fast Followers, future of work, Futurist, Futurist framework, GE, India Leadership Forum, Industial Internet, Internet of Things, IoT, it Services, IT services firms, Market Leaders, Mass Personalization At Scale, mobile, Mobile Biz, NASSCOM, Next Gen Customer, Next Gen Customer Experience, pace of change, Peer to Peer, PESTEL, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, socbiz, social business, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, trends, vendor strategy, Video

The Chief Digital Officer In The Age Of Digital Business

The Chief Digital Officer In The Age Of Digital Business

By R "Ray" Wang on November 6, 2013

Market Leaders and Fast Followers Prepare for Digital Business In 2014 Conversations at Constellation’s Connected Enterprise last week validate a larger trend in the market place.  The audience of 220+ early adopters with 75% representing line of business and 25% in IT highlighted the convergence of the five forces of consumerization described in 2009 and […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Apps Strategy, B2B, B2C, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, Business Outcomes, business strategy, Business Transformation, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Digital Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, CoIT, Constellation Research, Consumerization of IT, context, Corporate Strategy, CTO, CustExp, Customer Experience, Data to Decisions, Data2Decisions, Design thinking, digital marketing, Digital Marketing Transformation, Digital Strategy, disruptive, disruptive business models, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, future of business, innovation, Leadership, mobile, mobile enterprise, mobility, Monday's Musings, p2p, People to People, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, social business, Social Media, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Video | 2 Responses

The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions

The New Engagement Platform Drives The Shift From Transactions

By R "Ray" Wang on August 28, 2012

Convergence In The Five Forces Of Consumerization Of Technology Drives The Next Big Thing Social has given us the tools to connect.  Mobile has given us the ability to interact any time and anywhere.  Cloud delivers access points to us with a rich array of content and information.  Big data provides us with the context […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged adobe, Amazon, Amazon EC2, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com, apple, Apps Strategy, Atlasian, Badgeville, Box, Box.net, BPM, broadvision, BunchBall, Business Analytics, Business process, Business process management, business value, business value framework, BVF, CEO, CFO, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Service Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, collaboration, collaboration software, community platforms, complex event processing, Constellation Research, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, context, COO, Corporate Strategy, CRM, CrowdTwist, CTO, CubeTree, CustExp, customer engagement, Customer Experience, Decision Services, Design thinking, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, e20, engagement, Engagement Apps, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, erp, future of work, Gigya, GoodData, google, ibm, IBM Connections, ibm software group, Interaction History, Jive, Jive Software, Lithium Technologies, microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Windows, Monday's Musings, Moxie, oracle, outcome focused, People to People, predictive, R "Ray" Wang;, role, role-based design, rwang0, salesforce.com, sap, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, tibbr, Tibco, TideMark, yammer | 2 Responses

Event Report: Questions Every #SAPPHIRENOW Attendee Should Be Asking SAP

Event Report: Questions Every #SAPPHIRENOW Attendee Should Be Asking SAP

By R "Ray" Wang on May 13, 2012

SAP’s In The Midst Of Massive Transformation   Just four years ago, nervous attendees dealt with a tumultuous global market entering financial crisis.  SAP’s management team decided to raise maintenance fees to shore up its margins amidst a drought of innovation.  Customers revolted en masse.  Policies changed due to user group and global influencer pressure.  […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Apps Strategy, ASUG, ASUG365, Business Analytics, Business by Design, business intelligence, Business Objects, Business suite 7, business technology, business value framework, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Marketing Officer, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud options, Constellation Research, Consumer Tech, Consumerization of IT, Design thinking, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, Enterprise Business Apps, Enterprise Business Apps Vendors, enterprise class, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, event report, orlando, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, sapphirenow, social business, Social Business Software, software as a service, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, user conference, user event, user group event, user group events, user groups, user strategy, vendor events, vendor strategy | 4 Responses

Research Summary: Demystifying Enterprise Gamification For Business

Research Summary: Demystifying Enterprise Gamification For Business

By R "Ray" Wang on December 7, 2011

Purpose and Intent Much hype surrounds the topic of gamification. Often seen as a technique to add engagement to existing tasks, projects, marketing campaigns, and initiatives, the term gamification unfortunately lacks the seriousness it deserves. This report seeks to change the point of view and demonstrate where gamification plays a role in the enterprise. More […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Badgeville, Big Door, BunchBall, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Constellation Research, Constellation Research Inc., ConstellationRG, Consumerization of IT, CRM, CrowdTwist, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Design thinking, disruptive, disruptive technologies, Disruptive technology, early adopters, Engage, engagement, Engagement Apps, Enterprise Gamification, gamification, iActionable, NextGenCXP, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, Research Report, Research Summary, rwang0, SaaS, social business, Social Business Software, social commerce, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social technologies | 1 Response

News Analysis: Bunchball Gamifies Salesforce.com And Delivers Simplified Applets

News Analysis: Bunchball Gamifies Salesforce.com And Delivers Simplified Applets

By R "Ray" Wang on August 24, 2011

Two New Products Improve Entry Points for Gamification Adoption Bunchball, a leading gamification vendor in the Silicon Valley, is best known for its Nitro gamification platform which organizations use to implement game mechanics across social networks, mobile applications, and websites.  Today the solution reaches more than 70 million unique users and creates 2.3 billion actions […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged #DF11, BunchBall, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Consumerization of IT, CRM, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer experience management, Design thinking, early adopters, gamification, News Analysis, Nitro elements, Nitro for salesforce, R “Ray” Wang;, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, SaaS, salesforce.com, social business, Social Business Software, social commerce, Social CRM, Social Enterprise, social enterprise apps, Social Media, social technologies

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