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According to an article in October in InformationWeek, “ABI Research has projected that by 2016, wearable wireless medical device sales will reach more than 100 million devices annually. The market for wearable sports and fitness-related monitoring devices is projected to grow as well, reaching 80 million device sales by 2016.” 
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1. HR to abandon its traditional administrative role and become the company’s cultural citadel and spokesman 2. HR to proactively destroy company silos 3. HR to clearly spell out company mission, vision and shared values 4. HR to become the Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) driving force
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interestingly, digital transformation of HR appears to shift their role from being a recruitment hub - which can easilly and more efficiently be decentralized with the presence of social networks - to the facilitator of the enterprise network. This will require changes to processes and a reskilling of many in the HR field, so I expect this will take a long time to materialize.
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Ten years ago, we boldly declared that we'd be living with phones on our wrists, data-driven goggles on our eyes and gadgets that would safety-test our food for us. Turns out, we were remarkably prescient. Via Gloria Alvarez, Estelle Metayer
Gloria Alvarez's curator insight,
January 8, 2013 12:21 PM
2013 Prediction in tech done in 2003 via @wired
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Search giant experiments with YubiKey card to automatically log in users into GMail and other websites, not just Google properties.
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Again something to consider when going digital. Better than passwords, yet it does not solve all the security issues and concerns...
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Security remains at the center of concerns when companies go digital. Of course, going digital incresases the surface of attack and the probability of exposing private information to the general public. However, risks must be weighed against the benefits that digital brings.
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Entre 2011 et 2012, le nombre de transactions réalisées sur Internet par carte bancaire a progressé de 22,7%
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France numbers do show progression for eCommerce in terms of $ amounts continue to increase at a rate of 20% a year: this means total transactions are doubling every 4 years!
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In summary, however, Fulgoni’s ten “burning issues” are:
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Also some interesting facts you may or may not already be aware of.
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we surveyed 100 mobile designers to discover how long they expected it would take to build core front- and backend components of an Android or iOS app. We averaged the responses and then teamed with the designers at Visual.ly to visualize the time required to develop each component of an MVP-quality native app.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Often I get asked what the cost is to do things digital. 18 weeks at 6K$/week yields an average mobile app cost of 108K$ which is on track with other insights we have gathered.
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As I said, everyone is looking at what MAazon has done and wondering if what walmart will do with its digital transformation.
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Data from several social sources are fed into the tool, which provides insights into customer sentiment on 37 product lines, each featuring drill-downs to sub-products. “It’s a diagnostic tool to help us make sense of our Net Promoter Score,” Raj explained. “It’s a bridge to NPS. We’re able to measure the advocacy that each product enjoys in the marketplace and funnel that information back to the group responsible for that product.”
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting bridge between NPS and social sources. As you transform your business to leverage social media, you need new tools and processes to monitor what is being said.
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The number one fact that retailers need to accept is that the customer is now in control. The retailer’s job is to make sure the brand is everywhere the customer wants to be and to make sure the transaction process as simple as possible. Whether that process takes place on a tablet, a smartphone, a computer or a kiosk, transactions must be simple for customers and tailored for the brand.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Main message appers to be that consumers now have technologies that give them information everywhere. So your brand must also be present everywhere. That now means digital world more and more.
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Quora, the social Q&A platform, is beginning to get its sea legs. There are so many ways to use Quora, well beyond just asking and answering questions. Some people like to answer and ask questions. Via Ivo Nový, Zbynek Kysela ✔, Dona Chakraborty, Mark Strozier
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social Q&A is all about increasing collaboration and flattening the enterprise. Quora is a great resource in the public space, and other solutions also exist as private spaces.
The Affiliate Clinic's curator insight,
January 24, 2023 2:27 PM
Quora is an awesome site : https://www.quora.com/profile/OpinLynP
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The single biggest reason for not shopping online, cited by 32% of those who don’t, is that they want to purchase in person so they can see merchandise and avoid returns. But 26% are concerned that personal information will be used fraudulently, 21% that credit or debit card data could be used to commit fraud, and 18% that personal information will be sold to other merchants. 20% say shipping costs are too high.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Sounds about right: people still want to touch and see things - thus the "showrooming" wave we are seing - and are afraid their credit card will be stolen.
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Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.
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Trello changes the project management by bringing a simple solution based on cards and the Kanban approach. they have 1M after 16 months and they provide a free solution. Trick with Trello is simplicity. It replaces a whiteboard with post-it notes. It is visible on multiple monitors, iPad, iPhone, Android. It just works.
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Sales are being transformed, not eliminated, with digital collaboration technologies. It can help cut costs and improve productivity not only with high tech companies like Verizon or Rosetta Stone but also with Ulrich Barn builders which sells barns and sheds, made out of wood and other real world materials.
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Online competitive research can reveal a wealth of valuable intelligence about your competition and also about your industry as a whole. Via Estelle Metayer
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Lots of tools out there to perform ethical competitive intelligence for the digital worker to gather facts freely available on the web. Also makes you think about how much surface of attack your company is making available out there on the web for others to see...
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The 416-page guide was developed with one goal in mind: helping e-retailers find the right e-commerce tools and services for their business. In the 2012 edition, there are 1,200 e-commerce vendors identified, categorized and profiled.
Farid Mheir's insight:
416 pages just shows how varied the field of eCommerce has become and how difficult it is for most business users to find their way when they want to go digital and sell online. Funny that this is a "paper" catalog. But a ebook also exists.
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Robin Good: How can journalists and small news companies become/remain profitable in the years to come? What are the business moels that news-based outlets and professionals can consider adopting in their effort to become/remain sustainable? A joint project of the University of Tampere, USC Annenberg and Waseda University in Tokyo, has decided to tackle these very set of questions by researching existing journalistic startups and analyzing their approach and results. "...there has been much lively discussion about the future of journalism and its business model. However, there has been little research or academic focus to date on the business models for for-profit journalism startups..." From the report Introduction: "Overall, advertising models that supported media offline seem – for the most part – unable to do so online. The fundamental trade on scarcity of space cannot hold value in abundant space. Yet advertising remains one of the bedrocks of revenue for most media organisations." "This report outlines how online-based journalistic startups have created their economical locker in the evolving media ecology. The research introduces the ways that startups have found sustainability in the markets of nine countries. The work is based on 69 case studies from Europe, USA and Japan. The case analysis shows that business models can be divided into two groups. a) The storytelling-oriented business models are still prevalent in our findings. These are the online journalistic outlets that produce original content – news and stories for audiences. b) But the other group, service-oriented business models, seems to be growing. This group consists of sites that don’t try to monetize the journalistic content as such but rather focuson carving out new functionality. The project was able to identify several revenue sources that include: 1. advertising, 2. paying for content, 3. affiliate marketing, 4. donations, 5. selling data or services, 6. organizing events, 7. freelancing and 8. training or 9. selling merchandise. Where it was hard to evidence entirely new revenue sources, it was however possible to find new ways in which revenue sources have been combined or reconfigured. The report also offers practical advice for those who are planning to start their own journalistic site." Useful. Informative. Pragmatical. 9/10 Report: Table of Contents - http://www.submojour.net/archives/989/table-of-contents/ Full report (PDF): http://tampub.uta.fi/handle/10024/66378 Via Robin Good
Farid Mheir's insight:
Great reference to help start your digital transformation if you are in the journalism business. Very interesting collection of actual examples of business models exploring the different ways to make journalism websites profitable. goes way beyong advertising model.
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eMarketer’s latest forecast for worldwide digital ad spending finds digital taking an ever-greater share of total media ad dollars. By 2016, more than one-quarter of spending will go to online and mobile internet formats.
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No surprise, advertising digital transformation is well under way and accounts for a substantial part of the total already. Growth, however, is predicted to slow down and stay at 11% in Canada for example.
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QR codes have really taken off recently as marketers find creative ways to integrate them into campaigns. Below is a roundup of some of the best campaigns
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Mostly used for information providing, some translate into actual sales for Verizon, Scandinavian airlines, The Melt restaurant.
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"Selon License Dashboard, spécialiste des solutions de gestion des licences logicielles, les entreprises adoptent la virtualisation sans avoir conscience des implications du provisionnement dynamique de ressources dans ces environnements. Jusqu’à parler de bombe à retardement. ..." Via Patrick Bouillaud
Farid Mheir's insight:
(in french) To me this is a governance problem that is hiding under the cover of cloud computing and new software as a service. In most organization, licences are not managed centrally and with pay-per-use, you know only after the fact how much something will cost you. And it is all in OPEX, which could hurt many bottom lines if not careful. But other than planning carefully and managing centrally, I am not aware of software solutions that help manage the number of licences and their costs globally.
Patrick Bouillaud's curator insight,
January 9, 2013 8:28 AM
LA question avant de faire un choix éclairé ... Open Source devient une réponse tellement évidente ... Et une si belle manière d'échapper au "lock-in" en vue ... Tant pour les applications que pour le Cloud OS d'ailleurs ...
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Global competition, emerging skill shortages, and changing demographics will soon force companies to use their most highly paid talent more effectively. A McKinsey Quarterly Economic Studies article.
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Digital transformation will impact HR and work in general, enabling workers to work from home and collaborate virtually as contractual workers, not employees. This has already started in IT, HR, management, health care according to McKinsey.
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Online retailer bringing popular $79 plan to this country
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Finally it is here. Looks like fulfillment centers on both ends of the country (Ontario and BC) was a requirement to keep the shipping costs competitive. Now we can only expect this to increase Amazon adoption and market share in Canada.
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Last month, I got a close look at two of eBay's new pilot programs. One will pick up items from your home for sale, and another allows you to drop them off at a mall.
Farid Mheir's insight:
pure play online retailers - those with no physical stores - are now looking for ways to reduce the friction points when buying online. One of them is the immediacy of buying something in a store. EBay is obviously experimenting with ways to bridge the digital divide between sellers and buyers. But does it make any economic sense?
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Great way to investigate a private company
Estelle Metayer's curator insight,
January 7, 2013 4:27 AM
Great way to investigate a private company 
Barbara Kurts's comment,
January 9, 2013 9:11 PM
my topics here http://www.scoop.it/t/health-leads-plus
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With advances in wearable devices and the ubiquity of smartphones, it is essential for businesses with workers in dangerous conditions (mining, construction, etc.) to equip their teams with such devices. This may help prevent injuries but also reduce insurance premiums.