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 […]
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By Susan Scrupski on May 1, 2014
My friends and colleagues at Change Agents Worldwide are kicking off a “blog carousel” to address all these reasons why organizations can’t change. This list was carefully compiled by a Product Engineer of the Milwaukee Gear Company in 1959. These objections still live on today in memos, meetings, analysis decks, and teleconference calls over a half-century […]
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By Susan Scrupski on April 9, 2014
It should come as no surprise that a one-dimensional approach to network “deployment” will yield lackluster results. In the heyday of the Enterprise 2.0 movement, it was largely IT that introduced social networks to the workforce. The mistake that many customers made in those early days was viewing social networks as a technology platform vs. […]
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By Dave Kellogg on March 31, 2014
In business we have a sad tendency to copy success blindly. I remember the first time I read about this I didn’t even understand what I was reading: “Nothing in business is so remarkable as the conflicting variety of success formulas offered by its numerous practitioners and professors. And if, in the case of practitioners […]
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By Dave Kellogg on February 13, 2014
As you may have heard, PayPal president David Marcus recently zipped off a zinger of an email to company employees which was leaked to Business Insider and featured in this story: PayPal Chief Reams Employees — Use our App or Quit. Some highlights: PayPal It, our program enabling you to refer businesses that don’t accept […]
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By Susan Scrupski on February 10, 2014
[This is a bit of an insider post. New blog readers, please bear with me.] Here’s a question: When did you first fall in love with Luis Suarez? For me, it was sometime in 2006 or 2007. I first wrote about him on my blog in 2007 after he unpacked a 7-part analysis of the […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged adoption, change, change agents, Change Agents Worldwide, collaborative economy, Digital Workplace, Leadership, Luis Suarez, networks, new age consulting
By R "Ray" Wang on December 27, 2013
Every Brand Should Have A Plan For A Data Breach The confluence of centralized personally identifiable information, reliance on digital channels, ease of hacking of magnetic stripes, and the application of the Willy Sutton rule ( a.k.a. you rob banks because that’s where the money is) improve the odds that many organizations will face a […]
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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 […]
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By Sig Rinde on May 7, 2013
The CIO and CTO titles have been around for a bit… And I can sympathise with that, after all IT used to be something magical hard-to-grasp stuff for many in the upper echelons of the organisations. And much of that…
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By Paul Greenberg on January 24, 2013
Last October, I had the honor of speaking at the 2012 Pivot Con, a conference hosted by my dear friend and key social influencer Brian Solis. This conference held annually, is an affordable laid-back event built around intellectual conversation, without some of the more recent attendant pretense of, say, TED. Its more of a social […]
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