What's disruptive innovation, and why does it matter to leaders in the
C-suite? It's how the savvy non-conformist will target market opportunities.
How does this happen, when established companies seem to have the advantage?
Creative software developers can quickly apply new technologies and digital
business models to capture untapped demand.
Moreover, the most disruptive new companies will eventually reshape entire
industries, swiftly pushing aside the legacy incumbent players -- it's a form
of Digital Darwinism. The global networked economy will blossom, thanks to
the pervasive Internet, while the adaptive entities will survive and prosper.
Over the next five years, global digital transformation will continue to have
a significant impact on the demands and requirements of Internet Protocol
(IP) networks, according to key findings from the latest Cisco Visual
Netwo... (more)
Systems of Innovation for Ongoing Digital Transformation
Information technology (IT) advances are transforming the way we innovate in
business, thereby disrupting the old guard and their predictable status-quo.
It’s creating global market turbulence. Industries are converging, and new
opportunities and threats are emerging, like never before.
So, how are savvy chief information officers (CIOs) leading this transition?
Back in 2015, the IBM Institute for Business Value conducted a market study
that included the findings from over 1,800 CIO interviews from around the
globe. The resu... (more)
Are you open to new ideas, and given a compelling choice are you really
prepared to change? That’s what informed CEOs are asking their C-suite
leadership team. The context of those questions is about determining who is
most qualified to guide the organization’s digital transformation journey.
It’s also about setting expectations for C-level executives to partner.
IT and business leaders must acknowledge that they’ve likely reached a
significant turning point. Business technology advances are disrupting the
legacy status quo and bringing huge market turmoil in their wake. Industrie... (more)
Cisco released findings from two global studies that provide a vivid picture
of the rising security challenges that businesses, IT departments and
individuals face -- particularly as employees become more mobile, blending
work and personal lifestyles throughout their waking hours.
Despite popular assumptions that security risks increase as a person's online
activity becomes shadier, findings from the Cisco 2013 Annual Security Report
(ASR) reveal that the highest concentration of online security threats tend
to target legitimate destinations visited by mass audiences -- such as maj... (more)
Senior executives have been waiting for actionable insight from the mass of
information that their IT departments already gather about their customers.
But many have become very impatient -- because they want to see results, now.
Do you anticipate that data analytics and real-time visualization will
advance next year?
Ovum expects a significant wave of business technology ramp-ups in 2014, in
response to the market demand. They predict a growing third-party vendor and
IT services ecosystem that creates Big Data and Fast Data tools and solutions
for the enterprise data warehousing... (more)
David H. Deans is the Managing Director at the GeoActive Group. He has more than 25 years of experience in the Technology, Media and Telecom sectors.
Greg Chambers
Jamon Bowen
Ivo Jimenez
Ken Schow
Rafał Kowalski
Guy Fighel
Mark Goldin
sonal maheshwari
Andrew Hately
Jason vanValkenburgh
Lin Zhang
Mariusz Malkowski
