If you see Schumpeter, fire him. Now!

Vivek Vishnu·6 December 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...I am aware that some unquestioning followers of Joseph Schumpeter will find this note irksome. However, please hold your horses, as it is important to see the negative impact of Schumpeter's famous theory on innovation & the-hero-entrepreneur.  At least, intellectual honesty demands that we see how the rediscovered hero in Schumpeter fairs in this age of Digital Everything. Read More...

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Digital Disruptors at the Gate!

Vivek Vishnu·6 December 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...The din of digital technologies hitting the market is now everyday news. The pitch is reaching a crescendo with nearly all discussions in the IT industry circles ending with more than a note or two on digital disruption and its impact. Read More...

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Driving Innovation in Every Part of the Business

Richard Chiumento·6 December 2016·People & Change

...The number of employees at motor company Ford submitting inventions has reached record levels. During August, more than 4,500 employees submitted invention disclosures with nearly 1,700 of them first-time innovators. They included an idea to turn cars into a source of water and a transportable device to move people and objects short distances where cars aren't accessible. Read More...

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Is your (big) data garbage?

Gianluca Carrera·6 December 2016·Enabling Technologies

...The quality of data is of paramount importance in the big data world. Its importance is recognized in the 'small data' world, but too often the assumption that the quantity of data will make up for reduced quality is made in the big data space. Which is a big risk, as the quality of data often determines success or failure. Read More...

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The Secret Ingredient To a Successful Analytics Career Transition

Piyanka Jain·1 December 2016·People & Change

...Life's changes are rarely without anxiety. The first day at the college of your dreams is a mix of excitement and apprehension. Deciding to marry the love of your life is joyous and nerve-wracking, all at once. And despite months of thoughtful consideration carefully weighing the pros and cons, when you finally decide to change careers, your heart won't stop pounding with both anticipation and fear. Read More...

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What Is the Future of Data Warehousing?

Ronald van Loon·1 December 2016·Enabling Technologies

...There is no denying it - we live in The Age of the Customer. Consumers all over the world are now digitally empowered, and they have the means to decide which businesses will succeed and grow, and which ones will fail. As a result, most savvy businesses now understand that they must be customer-obsessed to succeed. They must have up-to-the-second data and analytical information so that they can give their customers what they want and provide the very best customer satisfaction possible. Read More...

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Things you may not have known about BPMN

Graham Smith·1 December 2016·People & Change

...Just recently I launched my new and updated course "Introduction to Business Process Management". Overall the course launch was successful with a few teething problems but one thing was certain, there was very little knowledge about BPMN. The course was launched in Central Asia as that is where I am living, but the assembled students on the course had the job title of Business Analysts and Business Improvement Analysts. Read More...

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The Athena Boom: Women in Analytics

Piyanka Jain·1 December 2016·Data & Analytics

...It was 2008. I had just entered a meeting room full of just women-for the first time ever in my life! I walked back out to check the meeting room name to make sure I was in the right place. I was the recently hired senior analyst meeting the Adobe campaign team for the first time. Read More...

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Why the CDO is about Insights, Not Data

Ben Thompson·1 December 2016·Data & Analytics

...We talk a lot about data being a being a key differentiator in the modern enterprise. But what do we actually mean by that? We already possess way more data than any other generation in the history of mankind, and those volumes are exploding by the day. Do we really want more of it filling up our lakes and warehouses? Read More...

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Agile Risk and Issue management & reporting

Craig Cockburn·1 December 2016·Delivery

...I have worked in many places as an agile coach, delivery manager and agile project manager where teams do the maintenance of the product backlog and product delivery effectively, but when it comes to the more "project management" activities there are sometimes tendencies to use more waterfall techniques that are less suitable to agile. Read More...

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The Year of Account-Based Marketing Comes to a Head at Dreamforce

Sangram Vajre·1 December 2016·Customer Engagement

...After the #FlipMyFunnel conference in Boston, where we filmed the "professors" for ABM University, one of the professors, Tyler Lessard, said something which really stuck with me. Tyler said the ABMU professors should do a reality show for "The Amazing ABM Race" where it would be marketer vs. marketer in a series of marketing challenges. Only one will survive to claim the grand prize of eating house-smoked bacon from Heinz Marketing, Tyler joked to me in an email. Read More...

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Cyber Regs for Banks & Insurers May Be Only Weeks Away

Judy Selby·1 December 2016·Cyber Security

...Last September, New York's Department of Financial Services (DFS) took a major step forward in its efforts to improve the cybersecurity posture of financial institutions (including banks and insurance companies) by proposing the first-in-country cybersecurity regulations. By any measure, the proposed regulations are comprehensive and demanding, and admittedly are intended by DFS to be "groundbreaking." The proposal contains a number of prescriptive requirements that are substantially more rigorous than current best practices and would require major operational changes for many organizations. Read More...

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