News Analysis: Adobe Completes Campaign To Commerce With $1.68B Magento Acquisition
Commerce Finally Comes To Adobe On May 21st, 2018, Adobe announced a $1.68 billion acquisition to acquire Magento for commerce capabilities and the developer ecosystem. When the transaction closes, the Campbell, Ca based company will be part of the Adobe Digital Experience team with Magento’s CEO Mark Lavelle reporting to Adobe’s executive vice president and […]
Seven Common Failures Plague Board Room Strategy In Digital Transformation
Boardroom Failures Reflect Years Of Focus On EBIDTA and Return On Capital Faced with massive pressure to embark on their digital journey, boards and CEOs have sought case studies and examples of success to avail without realizing that each journey remains unique. While there are many proof of concepts in play, much of the innovation […]
London was part of the largest Legal Hackathon ever
It’s been just over a week since the London stream of the Global Legal Hackathon, and those of us who were involved are still feeling the buzz. Here’s a full report of what went on. This was round one of a process which found a London winner to go forward with 39 other city winners […]
EPM, Project Orion, and the Beginner’s Mind
I’ll always be thankful for my time at Salesforce both because I met so many amazing people and because I learned so much. I learned about the importance of Trust in a SaaS company (and was drilled in the mantra, “nothing is more important than the Trust of our customers.”) And I learned about shoshin, […]
Get involved in the Global Legal Hackathon in London
You will have heard that Cambridge Strategy Group, Agile Elephant and Pinsent Masons are the joint team hosting the London event for the world’s largest legal hackathon – the Global Legal Hackathon (GLH) on February 23-25. A winner will be declared for London and that team will go through to a global competition, culminating with a winner announced at […]
Digital Trends 2018
Gaining and keeping competitive advantage for businesses has never been more challenging. At the same time, though, there have never been more opportunities to build and scale a company with global reach. With the internet as the platform for innovation and the emergence of the information-fueled economy, technology is both a strategic requirement and a […]
Living with IoT & home automation
Over the last few months, I have upgraded components in our home to devices which feature IoT and home automation capabilities. The first thing I replaced was my thermostat. I considered several options and went with the Ecobee thermostat. A key consideration was integration with Amazon Echo and Apple Homekit. I am actually more aligned to […]
The Dogshit Bar: A Memorable Market Research Concept
I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen market research that suffers from one key problem. It goes something like this: What do you think of PRODUCT’s user interface? Do you think PRODUCT should be part of suite or a standalone module? Is the value of PRODUCT best measured per-user or per-bite? Is the PRODUCT’s […]
The Most Critical Horizon to the Success of Corporate Innovation Initiatives
With existing business models in many different industries reaching maturity and providing little or no growth, and startups disrupting them with their new solutions, corporations find themselves more than ever in need for creating new businesses. But few corporations are able to consistently create from scratch new, big businesses that use innovative technologies and employ […]
Seven Universal Factors Why Technology Firms Fail
Hubris Drives Most Tech Firm Failures After observing the technology industry for two decades, one can’t help but identify a recurring theme – the beginning of the end of a technology vendor. While most firms do not endure a mass failure and come back to life like Apple did with Steve Jobs or transform business […]
