In this fantastic keynote he describes what is happening with digital disruption. He sets out the challenges for leaders in a future that is changing increasingly quickly. A must watch (for the first 15 mins). https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=187&v=ujBLqLFNr0s
What’s your favorite Element?
John Stewart from The Daily Show interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at 15min. Jon’s favorite element is Carbon, for some great reasons. http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/ogafvo/april-23–2015—neil-degrasse-tyson
Is BPM dead or alive? Sobering advice.
Neil Ward-Dutton, co-founder and research Director of the analyst firm MWD Advisors gave an excellent and thought provoking keynote at the BPM Next conference in Santa Barbara. In fact his presentation title suggested the conference should probably have been called “BPM Last”. He very generously shared his presentation and made it publicly available to a […]
The future is already here. Let’s celebrate it.
Today’s technology challenge: I bought something and I hope I can get home before it is obsolete. Comedian, Robin Ince reflects on why we should spend more time appreciating what we have rather than wanting more.
Making toast process – remarkable insights
Something as simple as making toast should be easy to describe as a process. Boring even. Everybody will draw the same simple process. Or will they? Watch this TED video and you will be amazed at the results of the research by Tom Wujec. He then draws some conclusions about the way to get people […]
BPM vs enterprise app vendors
You can build everything with BPM platforms Any client COULD use a BPM platform to develop their corporate apps. But they would be mad. Salesforce has huge team that think about nothing else but building customer success apps (CRM, support, marketing), WorkDay have a huge team that think about nothing else but building HR apps […]
Going green and going bananas
[READ TIME: 3 mins] To go “Green” requires changes to how people work, interact and use technology. Having just launched Q9Elements in San Francisco it is pretty difficult to miss the ‘greening’ trend. Northern California is the green heartland. Yesterday I cycled past a Toyota Prius Hybrid with a bumper sticker “Tree hugging dirt worshipper.” Everything and anything […]
The future still seems a long way off
[READ TIME: 8 mins inc video] Back in 2010 I wrote a blog about the the transformational shift caused by cloud, social, mobile and big data. That was over 4 years ago. It is still very relevant, and worth a read. But in that blog I put a link to a Microsoft video which portrayed […]
Mobile transformation; the impact
[READ TIME: 4 mins] Everyone recognizes the critical importance of “mobile” in a company’s approach to CX (customer experience), employee engagement and in their partner programs. But it is not that straightforward to pivot the company’s entire IT strategy. New companies can adopt a “mobile-first” strategy, but it is not “mobile-only”. Which means every app […]