Social Media’s missed opportunity Part I: How we got here

Rod Collins·25 October 2018·Customer Engagement

...One of the great ironies of the digital revolution is that, while the world has been transformed into a hyper-connected community where geography is no longer a barrier to instant collaborations across a wide diversity of people, social media platforms have managed to divide us into a collection of fractious… Read More...

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Tech that will reshape business in 2019

Richard Chiumento·25 October 2018·Enabling Technologies

...If we really are all technology companies now, as one of the popular business sayings goes, then as forward-thinking leaders we need to be taking notice of the annual tech trends lists which appear towards the end of the year. The analyst Gartner’s list is always keenly awaited by the… Read More...

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Who cares about Innovation? We should as it is not in a good state today

Paul Hobcraft·25 October 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Good innovation is notoriously hard to achieve. There are so many obstacles and uncertainties as you take an idea or concept through to eventual release. Often, we are dealing in the unknowns and uncertainties. We continually lack facts, we keep seeking validation. We are pressured for results. Others looking at… Read More...

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Why cybersecurity fails

Chris Murphy·22 October 2018·Cyber Security

...Last century standards were presented to prevent cybercrime…but there was minimal theft and standards were rejected because they were “inconvenient”. Today’s cyber crisis began with the choice to reject these standards. A choice was between indirect or direct Assertion of Identity. This binary decision is at the heart of the… Read More...

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Digital technology is changing the innovation game

Paul Hobcraft·17 October 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Digital technologies are beginning to have a real impact on the methods, approaches, and rates of our innovation outputs. Social technologies are giving us real-time understanding. We continually learn that intuition and ‘gut feel’ on research set up and gathered weeks or more often months ago, has a hidden cost… Read More...

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How ISO certification can help your IT Team

Nathan Sykes·17 October 2018·Cyber Security

...The International Standards Organization, or ISO, is a standard-setting body founded in 1947. The organization establishes guidelines for proprietary, industrial and commercial businesses in 162 countries. While ISO has begun to work with technology and information data, an IT team doesn’t need ISO certification to work. However, gaining ISO certification… Read More...

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From analytics to self-service: How digital technologies are transforming the restaurant industry

Nathan Sykes·17 October 2018·Data & Analytics

...The restaurant industry might be one of the most seemingly “old-fashioned” business models still out there, but you’d be wrong if you thought there wasn’t room to bring new technologies aboard. From planning daily operations to providing a more streamlined experience for customers, technology in food service is here to… Read More...

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The rise of digital sustainability

Nathan Sykes·17 October 2018·Enabling Technologies

...Digital transformation and technologies are playing a substantial role in helping with digital sustainability. Most industries are striving to meet sustainability goals, hoping to reduce their carbon footprint and do better for the world in addition to appealing to people who value sustainability. Sustainability efforts are accelerating, as reports from… Read More...

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Can We Have One of These? A Product Innovation Platform

Paul Hobcraft·17 October 2018·Strategy & Innovation

...Recently I was exploring the world of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and read an excellent Whitepaper from Aras Corp, one of the leading PLM solution providers. The Whitepaper called “Product Complexity, Digital Transformation, and the Innovation Imperative- The race to reinvent how complex products are developed is here“. This… Read More...

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The amplified individual needed for social media

Paul Hobcraft·17 October 2018·Customer Engagement

...I wrote a post eight years back. So long ago it amazes me. Reviewing it, it made me realize the Amplified Individual is today seen in social media as the #influencer. At that time I had been reading a fascinating report compiled for Nesta entitled “Amplified Leicester-… Read More...

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Pitching your startup to the Media: lessons from #OCSummit18

Mordecai Holtz·17 October 2018·Customer Engagement

...So your startup wants to get massive media coverage? Every startup dreams about the moment that Techcrunch, VentureBeat, The New York Times, Fast Company is interested in covering their story. What better way to learn about how to get massive media coverage than from the journalists themselves? Pitch the Press @ OurCrowd… Read More...

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Avoid these social media mistakes and boost your marketing in 2018

Mordecai Holtz·17 October 2018·Customer Engagement

...Over the past few years, when meeting with prospective clients their initial statement usually sounds like “social media just doesn’t work” or “we’ve tried it but it didn’t bring us the results we were expecting…Every time, my response is that “perhaps we should review why social media didn’t work… Read More...

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