From CMO to CGO: A Path to Sustainable Growth
Organizations must have their fingers on the pulse of the customer. This is why the transition of CMOs to chief growth officers (CGOs) is important. CGOs can identify customer-driven sources of growth for their organizations.
IoT creates a significant opportunity for Telcos to bring industries, silo solutions, and technologies together to create an end-to-end fully tested and commercially ready solution that provides meaningful value to customers.
The purpose of this paper is to understand the landscape, drivers, and risks of Accessibility compliance. This will help you on how to identify applicable Accessibility standards for your projects, to enable inclusive user experience in your applications and increase compliance.
"For people without disabilities, technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible."
A disruptive innovation can help create a new market and value network, or disrupt an existing market and value network by displacing an earlier technology. The term is used to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect; typically first by designing for a different set of consumers in a new market, and later, by lowering prices in the existing market.
I was sent two fantastic articles on leadership thinking this week. Articles that outline concepts that I strongly subscribe to – Emotional Intelligence (Emotional Intelligence, Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee, from the December 2001 issue 8.95) and Systems Thinking (Cultivating Systemic Thinking in the Next Generation of Business Leaders, Atwater, Kannan & Stephens, Utah State University).
Sourcing Advisors represent a growing industry of market influencers that are transforming the outsourcing markets across the world. These firms (and independent individuals) are involved in the majority of large and complex ITO and BPO deals, providing a range of services to clients from developing sourcing strategies and target operating models, to running provider selection processes and contract negotiations through to managing transformation, governance programs and deal restructuring.
Following on from my last blog, where I proposed the following scenarios to occur in the next three years in the Australia and New Zealand Market, driven by the base requirements of Cost, Flexibility and Speed to Deploy:
Calendar year 2015 and running into 2016: Traditional style RFPs from all industry sectors for IT Outsourcing services, both Apps and Infra. At the same time we are likely to see an increase in the XaaS apps requests, but still in the niche areas.
One of the latest trends that has caught the world’s attention and caused an unprecedented transformation in all walks of life is Social Media. This has helped change Governments, rally movements that resulted in the ending of dictatorships in various countries, spark public outrage on several human rights and other issues in India, and much more.
