Social media is eating the world. Think about this. 65 percent of adults are using social media. That in itself is amazing, but when you think of how they are using it…you can start to see the opportunity that companies like Microsoft are seeing. Let’s see…
In 2014, I read a whitepaper about one of the fastest growing trends affecting IT today. It put me on the path I am on right now…and opened my eyes to the enormous opportunity and threat facing business today. “The 2014 State of Digital Transformation” white paper by Brian Solis (available for free download here), […]
Big data touches every industry…and every individual in creative and unique ways. This presents massive opportunity for business, and no longer resides solely in the realm of IT. Gartner predicts that by 2017, more than HALF of tech spending will occur outside of the IT department. Cloud is the enabler of this shift, and the time […]
Analytics. The word is everywhere, and with good reason. In the recent past, data analytics was used by a handful of people to make smarter decisions for a few business challenges. Just look at sports. Player stats were the purview of the superfan, scouts, hitting coaches…until someone in the front office figured out how to […]
A colleague of mine, @StuOzer, sent me this link: http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/why-the-story-ofyamaha-should-terrify-hp-dell-cisco-others-in-hardware-biz/47946788 Having spent a few years at HP… It was like seeing written confirmation of the problem that plagued the sales teams in the Servers, Storage and Networking division. The sales and compensation model at HP did NOT address the lurking threat of Cloud Computing and its […]
Good article below…and I like the analogy I found in it. “Data is not the icing on the cake…Data is the cake”. http://www.forbes.com/sites/oracle/2015/05/26/the-new-data-options-that-drive-decisions/ by @michaelhickins. I’m not going to go so far as to say that EVERYONE likes cake…but plenty of us do. Lot’s of different choices, and ways to obtain them…Buy them, bake them…square cakes, round cakes, bundt cakes…cup cakes. […]
I got an email from someone offering to “gamify” my sales force. I’ll admit…it piqued my interest. Gamification is the use of ‘game thinking’ and ‘game mechanics’ in non-game contexts to motivate and engage employees. And according to a recent survey of the Fortune 2000..it works. It reported that a majority of companies used, or were […]