Managing Risks in a Hyper-Connected World

Rod Collins·3 July 2018·Cyber Security

...A simple fact of life is that life is not risk free. Every time we step into a car, shake another’s hand, or even eat a meal, we are exposing ourselves to the risks of an accident, catching the flu, or contracting food poisoning. Granted these risk possibilities are generally… Read More...

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Has your CEO joined the culture club?

Richard Chiumento·3 July 2018·People & Change

...Even if you happen to be an awards cynic, when employees are the anonymous judges of who the best CEOs are, the list has to be worth a second look. Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest job and recruiting sites, this week announced the winners of its annual Employees’ Choice Awards,… Read More...

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Measuring innovation for real results

Richard Chiumento·3 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...As digital transformation and disruption becomes extremely real for many companies, Rialto continues to champion the importance of putting in place both a strategy and culture for measuring innovation. For it is new ideas, new products, new services, new thinking as well as new ways of working, that will be… Read More...

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Creating your personal Brand – AKA Marketing YOU

Kenneth Gustin·3 July 2018·Customer Engagement

...What’s your personal brand? If you don’t know, no one else does either. And that’s a problem. Today, Social Business is conducted on a variety of platforms including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest and even SnapChat, depending on your product offering and the audience(s) you are trying to reach. But Social Business is… Read More...

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How CIOs can grow revenue streams with DevOps and Cloud Computing

Philippe Abdoulaye·3 July 2018·Delivery

...A recent article by Forbes’ Joe McKendrick caught my attention. Citing AWS’ John Enoch, he claims, “People need to focus on how cloud computing will help the business, and nothing more,” and concludes, “Typically, many business cases for cloud focus on implementation issues and the numbers… Read More...

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Econocom DevOps Summit’s Lessons: Severe Disconnect Between Expectations and Delivery

Philippe Abdoulaye·3 July 2018·Delivery

...On March 15, I gave four keynote speeches on DevOps in Toulouse, France. As the main speaker of Econocom Club MEP 2018, an annual think tank summit organized by the European business-to-business digital services provider, I shared the day with 15 firms in industries as prestigious as financial services,… Read More...

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Why Chef’s approach to DevOps substantiates the ITaaS delivery model

Philippe Abdoulaye·3 July 2018·Delivery

...Adam Jacob, CTO of Chef, the leading IT-automation firm, in an article, “The secret of DevOps: it’s always been about people, not technology” is a masterpiece. I agree with several of his points about the nature of DevOps, its purpose and benefits, they substantiate the principles of… Read More...

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How to avoid digital downfall: the Toys R Us case, part 1

Philippe Abdoulaye·3 July 2018·The Case For Digital Transformation

...Three months ago, the Wall Street Journal reported how increasingly investors and boards of Fortune 500 companies like Ford Motor were firing superstar CEOs for deficient business transformations. Obviously, this trend continues as the New York Times reported Toys R Us, one of the world’s largest toy store chains, has… Read More...

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Customer complexity (and the question to simplify it)

Sam Isaacson·2 July 2018·People & Change

...How often do two people trying to make the same point fundamentally disagree with each other? I’d have thought not very often. But within the past 24 hours I’ve read two articles that were making the same point. And they disagreed violently with one another about a foundational principle. One, the… Read More...

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Innovation’s most important ingredient?

Sam Isaacson·2 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...In every culture for as long as humans have existed, bravery has been a valued characteristic. The person who doesn’t count the cost of their actions, believing only in their possible positive consequences (let’s call her Sarah), is lauded as a great example of a human being, whereas the one… Read More...

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Creating Customer Constellations – Episode 3: Developing Your Constellation Strategy

Samuel Church·2 July 2018·Customer Engagement

...The Customer Constellation Model – Recap. In my first article, I set out the key components of the Customer Constellation model. The purpose of the model is to help businesses develop optimal customer engagement strategies by creating Constellations of brightly lit Stars across the customer universe. The premise being that, like… Read More...

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Incubators: An interview with the Director of the Founder Institute

Spiros Tsaltas·2 July 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Operating in 170 cities, 60 countries, and 6 continents the Founder Institute’s graduate companies estimated portfolio value is in excess of $15 billion dollars, with graduate companies receiving over $600 million dollars in funding.  This is the first in a series of interviews with some of the major Business Incubators… Read More...

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