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No-Deal Brexit isn’t just a British problem: This could wipe $15 trillion off global markets
In 2008 Lehman Brothers nearly took down the global banking system… in 2017 Greece’s debts were poised to destroy the European economy… today, we are staring at a stock market that gyrates up and down double-digit percentages in a single day, based on one awkward tariff tweet-up between Xi and Donald… We’re talking about the […]
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“You don’t get a PaaS just because you’re SaaS.”
Apologies to Frank Scavo for twisting his quote “You don’t get a pass just because you’re SaaS.” but this is a reaction to the trend that every cloud application vendor is offering a platform and actively recruiting developer communities. I get the central principle – configure in SaaS, but customize in PaaS. Keep the SaaS core clean. I also get […]
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How Did Russian Hackers Phish America’s Power Grid?
The kill chain, the phishing attack and the broken trust graph The Wall Street Journal published an explosive story about how state-sponsored Russian hackers used a variety of techniques and a spider web of compromised accounts to ultimately gain access to the control infrastructure that monitors and controls the flow of electricity in the US power grid. […]
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Event Report: Retailers Navigate Exponential Tech Amidst New Business Model Shifts #NRF2019
Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]
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Infor: a fork in the road
Congratulations to Infor for the new funding and potentially more when they go IPO. Here is today’s announcement: “Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, today announced an agreement to receive a $1.5 billion investment from shareholders Koch Equity Development, LLC (KED) and Golden Gate Capital. This investment builds on KED’s investment […]
Two Natural Reactions That Great Managers Suppress
Most employees tolerate their managers more than love them. According to a year-old survey in Forbes: Only about 50% of employees say the boss values their opinion. Only 35% of employees feel inspired by their boss. Some 25% say they can do a better job than their boss does. Almost 20% say that their boss […]
Apply the Account Categorization Framework to Succeed in Account-Based Strategies An account-based strategy model needs to focus on re-establishing relationships. With a very-well-defined list of business-to-business contacts, the go-to-market strategy requires a disciplined approach to re-engage with customers. Unfortunately, most field organizations are saddled with tech-laden complexity. Constellation Research suggests that clients put human relationships […]
Oracle’s stretch goal for its applications?
Mark Hurd tells Bloomberg “In fact, the highest application percentage of any company in any segment is sort of mid-20s. This generation will see a leader that’s much more material than that, and I volunteer us to do it.” I would love to see that. Listening to Mark Hurd at Oracle OpenWorld I wrote “After two decades of […]
Faster, Further, Flashier, and more Fun– 5G: It’s Coming
This update is a follow up to our holiday greeting card. As promised, I alluded to a new direction we’re taking with SoCo Partners. Generally speaking, my partner and I are still focused on innovation and innovators in every tech sector. Yet, over the past few years, I’ve increasingly become fascinated with the massive step […]
Accenture, IBM, Capgemini and Wipro lead the first application services Top 10
So it’s now 2019, and HFS’ Ollie O’Donoghue and Jamie Snowdon waste no time in the world of the new feisty Top 10 methodology, where they take no prisoners in ranking how the leading application development and management service providers performed… The market continues to test and experiment with new frameworks and methodologies. The most notable are […]
Done Right – a book review
I was in Shanghai, China recently. As I have told my friends, I ended paying a “tourist tax” everywhere. Moneychangers, gypsy taxi drivers, tour guides who took me to pearl and silk stores where I am sure they got a cut. Part of me was irritated, part of me glowed – it is so nice to see […]
Not in My Kitchen, You Don’t: Leaders as Norm Setters
There are two types of restaurants: those where it’s acceptable for a cook to pickup dropped food and serve it, and those where it’s not. Sure, when asked, everyone would say it’s unacceptable to serve dropped food in their kitchen. But is that how their kitchen actually runs? One of my favorite definitions of culture […]
Microsoft Leads The AI Patent Race Going Into 2019
There have been over 154,000 AI patents filed worldwide since 2010 with the majority being in health fields (29.5%), Industry-specific solutions (25.3%) and AI-based digital security (15.7%). AI-based marketing patents are the fasting growing global category, reaching a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 29.3% between 2010 and 2018. The second- and third-fastest growing global […]
6 Best Practices For Increasing Security In AWS In A Zero Trust World
Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported $6.6B in revenue for Q3, 2018 and $18.2B for the first three fiscal quarters of 2018. AWS revenue achieved an impressive 46% year-over-year net sales growth between Q3, 2017 and Q3, 2018 and 49% year-over-year growth for the first three quarters of the year. AWS’ 34% market share is more significant […]
A brief history of the 21st century: The Enterprise Tech chapter
People in our industry like to call themselves futurists. My glasses don’t allow me to look that far out. My books have, however, forced me to become a pretty fair historian. In The New Polymath I looked at Renaissance Men and Women like Leonardo da Vinci over the centuries. In Silicon Collar, I looked at automation and impact on jobs […]
Impressions #1 (2019): Random thoughts on the customer-facing world in the new year
I have a lot on my mind. Some of it wouldn’t make a PG-13 rating. What is here will, and they are small observations about our industry to begin the new year. E-commerce, business as a force for change, vendor movements, B2B, B2C, the best acquisitions, and, of course, the inimitable Steven Wright.
Business
- Kellblog Predictions for 2019
- Which Analytics And BI Technologies Will Be The Highest Priority In 2019?
- Defense contractor: IT must embrace ‘radical transparency and culture change’
- Trends: Constellation 2018 Enterprise Awards
- 10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales
- Phil’s 2018 Disruptor Awards!
Featured Posts
- Seven Implications to Adopting Multimodal On-Demand Mobility
- Conversational AI goes mainstream at Capital One bank
- CIO case study: Customer experience and digital transformation
- The Next Chapter
- How To Protect Healthcare Records In A Zero Trust World
- Monday’s Musings: What’s Up With Big Tech Stocks? The Insider View For 2019
Startup Lessons
- From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen of WP Engine (Video + Transcript)
- A Simple Trick To Get Your CEO Closer to Your Team
- Should Your Startup Have a Quota Club? (And How Much to Spend on It.)
- Highlights from the Fenwick & West 3Q18 Venture Capital Survey
- 5 Things I Wished I Asked Before Switching from Employee to Founder (Video + Transcript)
- Lost and Founder: A Painful Yet Valuable Read
