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I spent time over the Christmas holiday reading a book titled Anticipating 2025. Forward looking analysis that connects leaders with disruptive scenarios and their implications are invaluable, and ... 
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Stories tagged with Most Innovative Companies 2015.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting how innovation often rimes with digital transformation or disruption... This list provides 50 good starting points for those looking to reinvent their business.
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I've saved the best for last in this series of posts on responsive IT. In our survey of 750 business and technology leaders (around 200 from IT and the remaining 550 from other parts of the busines...
William Henderson's curator insight,
February 15, 2015 2:43 PM
I read articles that stated the CIO position was going to become extinct. For now, I do not believe it. That is why this article makes so much sense to me. The CIO has to maintain a leadership position in this digital age. They should be at the table of every executive meeting when discussing strategy and tactics.
Here are two operative statements in the article that I think are very important and support my last two blogs concerning, in part, where IT should spend their time.
*As your business becomes more digital – whatever that means for you – job 1 is to figure out how to minimize or offload the things that are not central to this transformation as quickly as possible.
*CIOs who want to play this leadership role must get serious about changing how they spend their time.
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The digital revolution is rapidly transforming the fundamental nature of many companies in a wide range of industries. Executives, entrepreneurs and general managers need to understand the economics, technology paradigms and management practices of innovating in digital-centric businesses to ensure corporate and personal success.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Hundreds of posts from Harvard business school students discussing topics related to digital transformation. Must read.
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How do you measure a CEO’s impact? An HBR team recently addressed that question by ranking CEOs according to the increases their companies have seen in total shareholder return and market capitalization across their whole tenures.
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Marketers want to know what their competition is up to. Setting up Google Alerts and following your competitor's Twitter feed can get you only so far, and the old "hide your badge trick" at tradeshows is just annoying. Does it ever work... or does it just arouse suspicion? So what's the best way to gather competitive intelligence? Some of the information you want is not public. Other information is just hard to find and takes some work. Luckily, with the troves of information now online, plus some new tools, it's never been easier.
Farid Mheir's insight:
some good links of tools to get you going on the competitive intelligence track.
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In our sixth annual report, we outline eight trends that could potentially disrupt the way businesses engage their customers, how work gets done, and how markets and industries evolve. Read about the trends below, download the full report, and explore our interactive tablet app.
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Since 2000, 52% of companies in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired or ceased to exist. These are challenging times for companies as the s…
Farid Mheir's insight:
Capgemini always produces useful articles in these magazines. Must read to stay current.
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After breaking up into a number of task forces and discussing strategic priorities, CIOs at the Journal’s CIO Network event came together to create a prioritized set of recommendations to drive business and policy in the coming year. While proposals ran the gamut, consensus seemed to form around two major themes: cybersecurity, and delivering change through effective communication with the rest of the business. The full results will be published in The Wall Street Journal CIO Network special report later this month. Here’s a look at the top five:
Farid Mheir's insight:
security, security, security...
Dianne M. Kipp's curator insight,
February 9, 2015 11:18 AM
All top 5 point to "changing the way business works", i.e. corporate culture and the behavior changes required to successfully transition from "old world" to "new world".
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Startup markets tend to ebb and flow. Here are five trends to watch from enterprise startups this year.
Farid Mheir's insight:
no surprise that security, big data, AI and mobile are there but Finance, really?
CEO_University's curator insight,
February 6, 2015 3:00 PM
New businesses are the growth and future of America.
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Farid Mheir's insight:
Marketing folks are betting 2015 will be the year of customer experience, personalization and Big Data. Omni channel will also be a big focus.
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Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Deep dive into the world of retail analytics where buying behaviour is dissected and analyzed. Provides an example where Target was able to successfully identify that a teenager was pregnant before she told anyone. Which led her parents to discover the truth when they started received coupons for baby care products in the mail. Spooky but considering what I know and that the article was written 3 years ago, this is, unfortunately, old news with old technology. Today, we are much better at it... Must read.
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Consumers around the world are quickly adopting digital banking. Incumbents only have a short period to adjust to this new reality or risk becoming obsolete. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Interesting how McKinsey presents digital innovation as both a threat and opportunity. In particular look at 7 traits of effective digital enterprises: it applies not only to banking.
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Biogen Idec has partnered with Google X, Google’s business unit for long-term “moonshot” projects, to study outside factors that might contribute to the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a report from Bloomberg. more at http://mobihealthnews.com/40031/google-biogen-will-use-wearable-sensors-to-study-multiple-sclerosis/ Via nrip, Olivier Janin
Farid Mheir's insight:
Companies should do this more often: experiment with new technologies - cloud, analytics, wearables, etc. - to explore new business opportunities with minimal investments. All technology companies do it yet few in the traditional environments seam to grab the opportunity. Why?
ChemaCepeda's curator insight,
February 2, 2015 1:08 PM
Cuantificación personal, wearables y big data al servicio de la captura y análisis de información para el estudio de la progresión de enfermedades como la esclerosis múltiple.
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Wearable tech hasn’t caught on and hasn’t caught on. On Friday, Google withdrew Google Glass from consumer testing, and Apple has continually stalled on the release of their watch. Whether or not Apple eventually releases their watch to popular acclaim, wearable tech will eventually arrive in the mainstream. Probably during 2015. For marketers, this can be daunting. Comprehensive mobile and social media strategies are still hard to deliver, and here comes another, vaguely defined innovation that may turn marketing, again, on its head. We don’t really know what wearables will look like, and we don’t really know what they will do. So how can you prepare a marketing strategy? By relying on what marketers do best: creative thinking, looking for patterns from consumers, and a little bit of imagination. Here are four ways wearables will change marketing – and what you can do to be ready.... Via Jeff Domansky
Farid Mheir's insight:
Article raises 4 interesting paths to investigate for marketers and technologists as well.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 1:37 AM
Could wearables change your marketing strategy? Find out more.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
January 29, 2015 1:45 AM
Could wearables change your marketing strategy in the future? Maybe.
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Delivering an enriched customer experience requires a new digital architecture running alongside legacy systems. A McKinsey & Company article.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Very much in line with the emerging concepts of systems of record versus systems of engagements (see http://sco.lt/5d1pD7 and http://sco.lt/8Blzhh) this paper presents the impact on IT organizations and processes: the need for 2 different speeds of operation.
Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight,
January 28, 2015 1:48 PM
The impact of going digital on the organization's IT Architecture and governance
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There's an ongoing discussion in the enterprise software world about "systems of record" vs. "systems of engagement." Which do you have? "Systems of Record" are the ERP-type systems we rely on to run our business (financials, manufacturing, CRM, HR). They have to be "correct" and "integrated" so all data is consistent. [...]
Farid Mheir's insight:
A strong example of the popularity of systems of engagement in the HR sector. See also http://sco.lt/5d1pD7
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In the Age of Facebook, organizations must redefine how they think about information management, control, and governance in order to deal with social technologies. In this AIIM White Paper, Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Managing Director, TCG Advisors, examines the fundamental revolution underway in enterprise IT brought about by ubiquitous Internet access, the proliferation of powerful mobile computing devices, and the consumerization of IT. This report compares and contrasts existing Systems of Record – those tools, repositories, and systems upon which organizations have built their business processes for the last several decades – with Systems of Engagement. These tools overlay and complement organizations deep investments in systems of record by providing Web-based access, usability across a variety of hardware and software platforms, and cross-organizational collaboration. In the report, Moore addresses these important questions:
- See more at: http://www.aiim.org/futurehistory#sthash.91g7y0Gn.dpuf
Farid Mheir's insight:
A very important concept to master by all digital experts, the difference between systems of reference (or of record - SOR) and systems of engagement (SOE). In a nutshell, SOR is under the control of IT while SOE are under the control of... well it depends. HR, marketing, sales, finance all use systems of engagement in the cloud - salesforce.com and others - but really no single group is accountable. Except maybe the chief digital officer or the chief marketing technologist. Maybe.
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The effect of social technologies in customer-facing processes is already significant. Our survey finds that while overall adoption of these tools has plateaued, companies can do more to measure and then capture social’s benefits. A McKinsey & Company article.
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Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into account not only the route you want to take, but how you want to feel along the way.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Innovative mapping uses crowdsourcing techniques to identify not only the most efficient route to take but also the most quiet or the most enjoyable? Can this approach also be leveraged in other business applications that are focussed on efficiency?
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Google prints money. It made $56 billion in revenue and earned $13 billion in its last full fiscal year. Click headline to read more-- Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
Farid Mheir's insight:
A similar viewpoint from yesterday'S article in Forbes.
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Apple has been collecting payment card data since 2003, the year it launched the iTunes Store.
Farid Mheir's insight:
This will likely make Apple Pay very popular
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Digital technology clearly has become a momentous disruptor of traditional business paradigms, as well as an enabler of new business approaches and customer relationships. This is why, according to Cisco Systems Inc., there is an estimated $14.4 trillion in “digital disruption dollars” up for grabs between now and 2022. Accenture believes that digital supply networks are the backbone of this new ecosystem: worldwide conduits that streamline and accelerate the exchange of products, materials, components and (perhaps most important) information. We also believe 3D printing is an ideal illustration of the digital supply network’s vast potential
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In a webinar yesterday, IDC discussed its CIO predictions for 2015 and beyond. Of IDC’s 10 predictions, the one that intrigued me most, predicted that most of the audience, presumably CIOs and senior IT executives, will eventually relinquish their most interesting and important responsibilities to Chief Digital Officers (CDOs):
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I think data analysis can deliver inferences at certain levels of quality. But we have to be clear about what levels of quality. We have to have error bars around all our predictions. That is something that’s missing in much of the current machine learning literature.
Farid Mheir's insight:
Jump over to the section on Big Data, and you'll get a great description of where Big Data will likely fail on the near future: making predictions. As a good engineer, Jordan states a fact about Big Data that often goes unnoticed: Big Data today is like gambling because it is not based on a formal scientific approach. Rather, he states quite clearly that Big Data today is like building bridges prior to civil engineering: you can build a bridge but cannot GUARANTEE it will not fail. Same with Big Data: we can analyze a lot of data and make predictions but we cannot guarantee they will become reality. (or read the entire piece, it will enlighten you on a typical engineering discussion on new technology: dry, cold, fact-based. Much to the opposite of everyday marketing and scientific media interpretation.)
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Always good insights from Franck Diana. This is especially good because of the angle it takes, looking at the world as if we were in 2025.