Cloud Computing Dominates Deloitte’s 2015 Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey
Cloud computing is the strongest technology investment sector for the third year in a row. Biopharmaceuticals and robotics are the two sectors that have gained the greatest venture capital confidence from 2014 to 2015. U.S. technology hubs (Silicon Valley/San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles & Chicago), Israel and Canada dominate while confidence continues to […]
Deloitte Digital: Chief Marketing Officers invading IT turf
Deloitte Digital just released research on the CIO / CMO relationship. Although lousy presentation makes the data hard to decipher, several points are worth examining. According the “methodology” section of the press release, Deloitte performed keyword analysis using Sysomos MAP and Salesforce Radian 6. They examined “54,552 pieces of social media content mentioning both CMOs […]
Procurement Talent Management: An Introduction
Earlier this week, Deloitte launched its latest procurement paper, Procurement Talent Management: Exceptional Outcomes Require Exceptional People, a rather provocative analysis – especially for a consultancy – that takes aim at the talent problem in procurement today. Spend Matters will be highlighting some of the findings of the paper in the coming weeks and months, […]
An IT failure unicorn: Endless 19-year project in Massachusetts
On a regular basis, I receive calls from reporters and researchers writing about IT failures. Most often, they want context on how often these problems occur and who is to blame. However, recently, I got a different kind of call. Todd Wallack, a reporter for the Boston Globe, got in touch with a strange question. […]
Research: CIO relationships and priorities remain conflicted
A new global CIO study from Deloitte sheds light on why CIOs and IT have a tough time. The data offers lessons on how to fix the problem.
Digital transformation and the innovative CFO
Discussions about digital business transformation usually center on marketing and the CMO. The popular notion is that digital transformation is primarily a set of online marketing activities such as e-commerce, building communities, and interacting with customers on social media. However, more sophisticated observers recognize that digital transformation has significant implications for operations and business models. For example, […]
CRM Watchlist 2014 winners: Customer engagement
Disparate in what they do, they all involve technologies associated with engaging customers or at least understanding what they have to know so that they can engage customers.
Social Business: Pining for the Fjords!
“I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it… It’s dead!” So, which is it dead or not dead? There is so much confusion in the market about what “Social Business” is, it might as well be a dead parrot (too). And there is no shortage of people who come at this conversation with a perspective […]
Marin County restarts ERP project; Deloitte under scrutiny in CA and MA
Three years after terminating a failed ERP project, Marin County, California, is once again trying its hand at an enterprise implementation. This time around, the county has learned lessons from the past that may help drive success. Marin’s original project went $30 million over budget and culminated in a lawsuit claiming fraud against Deloitte […]
PwC-Booz: The seven year itch
The recent PwC decision to acquire Booz took me back to younger days when I was an reluctant accountant at PW (the C came later after it merged with Coopers). I had little desire to do time in auditing or get a CPA certificate, but that was a requirement back them to qualify for its […]
