Is the CIO the solution to Digital?
The CIO is effectively an operations manager while the CDO is a de facto digital strategy and architecture lead.
digital transformation
Consumer Good Unclear in CVS/Aetna Merger
CVS and Aetna have formalized a merger agreement with CVS set to acquire Aetna for roughly $69 Billion dollars. In deals of this nature, approval hinges on one thing: consumer good. The Department of Justice evaluates mergers of this magnitude to ensur…
Consumer Good Unclear in CVS/Aetna Merger
CVS and Aetna have formalized a merger agreement with CVS set to acquire Aetna for roughly $69 Billion dollars. In deals of this nature, approval hinges on one thing: consumer good. The Department of Justice evaluates mergers of this magnitude to ensur…
The Four New Rules of Business
Every business is different. But for all their differences, leading digital companies have some things in common that separate them from the rest. Over the five plus years I’ve been researching digital business, my colleagues and I have developed a num…
The Four New Rules of Business
Every business is different. But for all their differences, leading digital companies have some things in common that separate them from the rest. Over the five plus years I’ve been researching digital business, my colleagues and I have developed a num…
Royal Caribbean and EY Embark On A Digital Transformation To Put Cruising Back On The Grid
All companies face a new digital reality, where the accelerated pace of change today is the slowest it’s ever going to be. Partnering with EY, Royal Caribbean is taking on this challenge by transforming the once “off the grid” cruise vacati…
Which Digital Agency Should You Use?
I believe most firms have an existential need for a great digital experience service provider — an agency or consultancy — that can help them design, build, and sometimes operate the complex digital experiences your customers crave. Your ne…
5 Steps to Create Winning Enterprise Integration Strategy in the Digital Era
In the fast paced technology driven businesses, quick turnaround solutions like microservices often take the precedence over “planned” integration. This strategy, although in short term, provides for better business value, in the long run, creates unmanageable technical debt. As uncontrolled business debt erodes business’s ability to grow further, uncontrolled technical debt erodes IT department’s ability to fund future innovations. Although in many cases it’s an easiest approach to take, piecemeal achievements are short lived. Soon, IT teams find themselves lost in a sea of fragmented software gizmos.
Predictions 2018: Digital Strategy Reaches The Heartwood Of The Business
Digital business leaders know that customer obsession is the winning mantra, however meeting the needs of today’s empowered customer requires both laser focus and responsiveness. Experimentation, minimum viable products, and labs are so 2017. In 2018, …
Going Digital – Perspectives, Techniques & Tools
This is essentially a link post to a series of “Going Digital” articles (one of my most popular posts on my “Taotwits-Too-Big-To-Tweet” blog). I decided to link to it from FiD given the interest in the subject among the FiD Tribe.Here …
Predictions 2018: Automation Will Alter The Global Workforce
Until now, automation has gotten a bad rap. In 2013, Oxford professors Carl Frey and Michael Osborne analyzed 702 occupations and declared 69 million US jobs, or 47% of the workforce, would be lost. In 2017, CNBC reported that 65% of Americans believed…
The Open Group China September 2017 – Event Highlights
The Open Group China Event was held September 21-22, 2017 in Shenzhen. One hundred government leaders, heads of authorities, corporate general managers, and ICT experts attended the event to jointly discuss top-level design and technological innovation for enterprise transformation under the background of the digital era.