Mobile initiatives create a competitive advantage for those who get onboard!
Pacesetters are gaining a huge competitive advantage using mobile as part of their daily lives. They are about 4 to 10 times more likely to be doing all the right things!! What are the right things? What are the key characteristics they exhibit to stay ahead of everyone else? Is your enterprise ready to be a Pacesetter?
I answer all these questions and more during my August 21st webcast. I'll share with you the findings and next-steps based on the 2014 IBM Business Tech Trends study.
Register now for my webcast! It's time for you to find out what it means to be a Pacesetter!.
The 2014 IBM Business Tech Trends report: Raising the game
We can all see that cloud, big data & analytics, mobile, and social are becoming more and more important to businesses, but certain companies are using these transformative technologies to truly thrive and stay ahead of the pack! If you are like me, I'm sure that you are curious about the secret ingredients that make these companies successful while others might struggle.
The 2014 IBM Business Tech Trends report examines these successful companies - called Pacesetters - and looks at the key characteristics that they exhibit. And here's the good news: I'm hosting a webcast for the public release of the Business Tech Trends report on August 21st, and you are invited!
Watch my video for further details:
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Joining me for the webcast will be Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder & Chairman at Constellation Research, Inc., and Susanne Hupfer, Research Lead for the study from the IBM Center for Applied Insights. We'll also hear from IBM Business Partners Pitney Bowes, Esri, Hootsuite, and Fiserv to get their point of view. This will be a great webcast with tons of info!
Register now for the webcast. I know you'll learn valuable info and discover the secrets of becoming a Pacesetter!
CNBC Top 50 Disruptors - Of the Top 20, 25% are Social
I love disruptors. I love innovation and creative thinking.
So the CNBC Top 50 Disruptors was interesting. (read the full story here
I found it interested that ALL these companies are either based on Cloud, Social, Mobile, or Analytics. All are based CAMS!
And of the Top 20, 25% are Social Business oriented.
Whose your favorite? And what's your biggest AHA on the list?
InXero: helping micro-businesses engage customers through social and mobile!
I am in Poughkeepsie today chatting with clients and our great IBMers here! The big focus of course is on CAMS -- Cloud, Analytics, Mobile and Social!
This example highlights the value of CAMS!
75% of world trade happens through resellers says Anand Raj, CEO, InXero. Many of these are small businesses who are not necessarily good marketers. InXero gives them the tools they need to get the right content and meet the customer where they are! For instance, developing a showcase for businesses on LinkedIn can be much more impactful than the printed brochures of old.
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See the InXero platform in action!
Impact 2014 Mobile App Throwdown - and the winner is... ClickSoftware!
Congratulations to ClickSoftware!
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We can’t forget our great set of semi-finalists - PointSource, Arxan, and Exigen Insurance Solutions.
See more on our app throwdowns!
Social in the Pharmacy Industry - changing the world with Alden Zecha, Sproxil
A must watch!
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Close Encounters of the Mobile Kind! What's coolest mobile app?
Thank you being part of India's Largest Technology Contest for Students. The last date for project submission for The Great Mind Challenge - Mobility Contest is 31st March 2014. What's the coolest mobile app you have made ? Hurry submit your projects now. Submission details on www.facebook.com/thegreatmindchallenge
A chance to shine: Show-off your mobile app at Impact 2014
Do you have a mobile app solution? If so, the IBM Mobile App Throwdown at Impact 2014 is for you!
We're inviting developers and our IBM Business Partners to get up on stage and demonstrate new solutions that use the IBM MobileFirst portfolio or our newly announced IBM BlueMix.
The App Throwdown at Impact 2014 will be a fun, interactive event where we will feature you, your mobile app solution, and how it integrates on any one of our IBM products. This puts you front and center at a major IBM event where you'll have the chance to demonstrate your solution live! The audience of clients, IBM Business Partners, and IBM sellers will select their favorite mobile app solution to win.
Will it be you? This is a great opportunity! Don't miss it!
Listen to what past App Throwdown winner, My Menu, said about their experience!
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The deadline for the App Throwdown is April 21st. IBM Impact 2014 is April 27th to May 1st.
Don't delay!Register now!!!
Selfies Explode but ROI comes from sharing value! Let's do "other-ies"
I was thinking this weekend about Selfies after I saw so many taken at SXSW and highlighted in the Oscars.
I looked for some research on how prevalent this trend is becoming. For example, a recent joint study of self-portraits in social media by three universities in the U.K. found that aggressively posting self-portraits on Facebook can alienate our friends and loved ones. In another example, the study found that selfies compose a 30% of images snapped by everyone's favorite demographic — the much-beloved millennial!!
So much focus now on "it's all about me". But you get more success when social is used for "value" of all opinions and offering a point of view.
I think the leaders of social should push for sharing and valuing others. determining what others need helps to spur on innovation and a focus outside yourself, vs inside your company.
The top ten most innovative companies had two-year compound annual growth rates of 60 percent more than the overall Standard and Poors Global. For these companies, innovation is much more than a “big idea.” Innovation is an ongoing process of creating value from something new, such as new ideas, new technologies, new products or new processes. For example, 75 percent of successful companies rely on social networks to vet new ideas for success. They use them for:
- Openly communicating strategy
- Openly generating and prioritizing non-traditional ideas for new products and services
- Innovating operations by teaming with external specialists and business partners
- Innovating business models by combining emerging technologies with business imperatives to redefine the value chain or move into entirely new industries
Your influence matters!! Encourage others and companies to :
- “Engage the crowd” (internal and external) to vet new ideas not just sell their own
- Deploy a portal that combines content, social and advanced mobile features to provide an exceptional digital experience for customers, partners, and employees to make it easy to share ideas
- Deploy social gamification and social rewards systems to improve engagement and sharing