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On the Perils of Taking Advice from Successful Business People

By Dave Kellogg on May 19, 2020

One of the hardest things about running startups is you’re never sure who to listen to. Your board members own big stakes in the company, but that doesn’t automatically align them with you.  Your late-stage investors want low multiples on big numbers.  Your early-stage investors want big multiples on small numbers.  And they have their […]

Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged Advisors, advisory boards, Leadership, Management, startups, Uncategorized

Clarity, Cloud, and Culture Change at IBM

Clarity, Cloud, and Culture Change at IBM

By David Terrar on May 16, 2020

As we all know “business as usual” just changed for every person, team and organisation on the planet. In this “new normal” there are plenty of lessons to learn, unlearn and relearn. Essentially, we need to keep calm and carry on, at the same time as recognising the significant new opportunities this throws up alongside the common problems we […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Arvind Krishna, culture change, ibm, Leadership, Mutable Thinking, open business, shared values, strategy

How Startup CEOs Should Think About the Coronavirus

How Startup CEOs Should Think About the Coronavirus

By Dave Kellogg on March 1, 2020

I just reached out to the CEOs I work with with on this topic and figured I should also do a quick post to speak to the CEOs who follow Kellblog as well. The primary purpose of this post is to remind busy startup CEOs that an important part of your job is to be […]

Posted in Startup Lessons | Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Leadership, Management

Event Report: Retailers Navigate Exponential Tech Amidst New Business Model Shifts #NRF2019

Event Report: Retailers Navigate Exponential Tech Amidst New Business Model Shifts #NRF2019

By R "Ray" Wang on January 19, 2019

Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged #NRF2019, 2019, Apps Strategy, best practices, Business Transformation, C-Suite, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Creative Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, Cloud, Cloud Computing, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CRM, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, event report, experience management, google, google cloud platform, growth, innovation, jump start growth, Leadership, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, National Retail Federation, R “Ray” Wang;, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, The Big Show, trends

Research Report: Improving Go-to-Market Results with Constellation’s ACF

Research Report: Improving Go-to-Market Results with Constellation’s ACF

By R "Ray" Wang on January 16, 2019

Apply the Account Categorization Framework to Succeed in Account-Based Strategies An account-based strategy model needs to focus on re-establishing relationships. With a very-well-defined list of business-to-business contacts, the go-to-market strategy requires a disciplined approach to re-engage with customers. Unfortunately, most field organizations are saddled with tech-laden complexity. Constellation Research suggests that clients put human relationships […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged account based strategy, account categorization framework, Apps Strategy, best practices, Business Transformation, C-Suite, CDO, CEO, CFO, Chief Collaboration Officer, Chief Creative Officer, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CHRO, CIO, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, CRM, Digital Business, Digital Disruption, digital marketing, Digital Strategy, Digital Transformation, DigitalBiz, digitaltransformation, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, experience management, growth, innovation, jump start growth, Leadership, R “Ray” Wang;, Research Report, rwang0, sales, sales effectiveness, sales strategies, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, trends, vendor strategy

WHY AREN’T THERE MORE WOMEN AND MINORITY LEADERS IN HR?

WHY AREN’T THERE MORE WOMEN AND MINORITY LEADERS IN HR?

By Naomi Bloom on April 3, 2015

Throughout my lengthy career as a consultant, analyst, thought leader, and independent voice in the HR technology industry, I have been asked quite often why I think there aren’t more women and minority HR professionals in key HR leadership roles. The simple answer is that there aren’t many women and minorities in key HR leadership […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged career, Leadership, minority, Social mobility, United States, women, Women in Business

The Internet inside the enterprise: We don't have it, and we need it

The Internet inside the enterprise: We don’t have it, and we need it

By Dion Hinchcliffe on November 3, 2014

It’s no longer fashionable to criticize enterprise IT as it once was. That’s because the Internet has definitively won the competition and is leading the way in tech innovation. But for proactive organizations, it doesn’t have to be that way.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apps, Big Data, Cloud, Cloud Priorities, Consumerization, CXO, Data Centers, Data Management, Emerging Tech, enterprise software, innovation, IT Policies, IT Priorities, Leadership, Networking, servers, Technology / Software

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

Change Agents Go to Washington!

Change Agents Go to Washington!

By Susan Scrupski on September 25, 2014

Drowning in paperwork?  Demoralized by endless meetings where you sit and sit and sit, and have no voice?  Tired of performance management reviews that have little to do with your potential or passion?   Frustrated by knowledge that buries itself in graveyards of  email thread coffins? Then, we have a workshop for you.  Come get […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged caww, change, change agents, Change Agents Worldwide, Digital Workplace, future of work, innovation, KMWorld, Leadership, Organizational Change, Working Out Loud, workshop

Smarter Innovation: Road Map to the Future

Smarter Innovation: Road Map to the Future

By Susan Scrupski on September 18, 2014

Last spring, we were approached by the Academic Director of Columbia University’s Graduate Information and Strategy program, Katrina Pugh.  She had received word about the innovative way our Change Agents work out loud in the cloud.  We were asked to contribute to a management book published recently by ARK Group, “Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged change, change agents, Change Agents Worldwide, Digital Workplace, future of work, innovation, Leadership, Management consulting, Organizational Change, strategy, Working Out Loud | 1 Response

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