Industry 4.0: What it means to global industry and consumers

Philip Dwyer·22 March 2016·The Case For Digital Transformation

...We are in the midst of Industry 4.0 – the fourth wave of technological advancement which will fundamentally alter the way that industry and consumer ecosystems will evolve. Not to put too fine a point on it, but the world's top 2,500 business leaders, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and journalists met at the World Economic Forum in Davos recently to discuss the most pressing issues facing the world, of which, Industry 4.0 was front and center. Read More...

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Blockchain Technology in Capital Markets – A long journey with many unknowns

Indra Chourasia·16 March 2016·Enabling Technologies

...“It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true”                                      – Freeman Dyson (theoretical physicist and mathematician) Blockchain or distributed ledger technology[i] and its application in financial services has generated… Read More...

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“Doing the right thing”. What does this actually mean?

Micha Veen·10 March 2016·People & Change

...In the last couple of days, I have come across various organisations that have, as one of their values, “Doing the right thing”. Although, I fully support this organisational value and as an entrepreneur it’s crucial to live by this, “Doing the right thing” but Doing the right thing” means different things to different… Read More...

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Work e-mail is the purest form of hierarchy there is

Ted Bauer·10 March 2016·People & Change

...Before we get into this, let's just be clear up front: e-mail is probably one of the worst things mankind has wrought upon us. There's a ton of topics in the general 'working world' that we never discuss, but should discuss -- because those topics pretty much define everything that happens between people in cubicles and offices. The most notable example is failure; that happens every second in most offices, and yet, we often decide to gloss it over with a new, cheapened success metric. Read More...

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Increase Your Organizational Agility

Braden Kelley·2 March 2016·People & Change

...Companies seeking to cope with the pace of accelerating change are looking for ways to go faster, and managers in non-technical disciplines have become increasingly infatuated with the Agile Software Development methodology and many are finding ways to adapt parts of it to create agile change or agile marketing or other such things. Sure agility sounds like a good thing and sure agile marketing sounds like it must be better than regular marketing, but is it? Read More...

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What Will Happen When Workers Carry Out Their Jobs In Half The Time?

James Leighton Davis·2 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Nearly 20 years ago McKinsey published an article on the potential impact of transformation they were seeing in the global marketplace. This week, I thought it interesting to summarise their findings and to stimulate a debate - has what they predicted come to pass? Read More...

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Agile Marketing – It’s not the technology, stupid

Simon Wyk·2 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Every day my LinkedIn feed is full of advice on how to implement a new CMS for more agile marketing outcomes. It’s as if marketing automation is the holy grail that’s going to deliver transformation and spare us the challenges of disruption. If only. Read More...

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Is Your Business A Potential Target For The Next Digital DISRUPTION?

Logan Nathan·2 March 2016·Strategy & Innovation

...Having the potential to turn the sails in favour of neophytes and bring down incumbents, Digital Disruption is reshaping markets with the speed and force that has no match in history!  Survivors are those businesses that are pro-actively adopting digital, but in order to thrive, they must also innovate new business models to keep pace with the digital age! Read More...

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Build Real Time Applications using Spark

Birendra Kumar Sahu·2 March 2016·Data & Analytics

...Why Spark? Because Spark is a general-purpose framework for cluster computing, it is used for a diverse range of applications. Spark will add significant value to the increasingly hybridized world of big data tools and platforms. Spark and its component technologies—as a unified stack or as discrete components—will quickly find their spot of use cases, applications and deployment zones where they sparkle brightest. Read More...

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How bosses should really communicate with teams

Ted Bauer·2 March 2016·People & Change

...If you look below, you've basically got four options via Kim Scott, who's worked at Google and Apple. Her overall principle is called 'radical candor,' and much of how it works is outlined here. There are any number of four-quadrant ideas in American business -- here's an example of one geared towards productivity -- and Scott's works this way: Read More...

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Video: Can Service Pros Over 40 Succeed In Digital?

Randy Shattuck·2 March 2016·Customer Engagement

...You Don’t Need To Be A Digerati To Master Digital Marketing Read More...

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Internet of Things – $1.2 Trillion Retail Opportunity?

Grant Martin·24 February 2016·Enabling Technologies

...In a recently published McKinsey study "The Internet of Things (IoT): Mapping the Value Beyond the Hype", the retail industry is ranked fourth highest in potential and economic impact over the next decade, as highlighted below. McKinsey defines the retail environment broadly "as physical spaces where consumers engage in commerce, considering or purchasing goods and or services". This includes traditional stores, such as, department and grocery stores, as well as showrooms where goods are on display but not available for sale. It also includes physical spaces where services are purchased, such as, banking halls, theatres and sports arenas – anywhere consumers consider and or buy; such as self-checkout, in-store offers, extra. The analysis covers only physical environments where IoT technologies can be deployed, not online retailing. Read More...

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