Digital Identity , Predictive Analytics, and Context at Center of Digital Transformation
Last week, I had the privilege to spend some time discussing some of the most important topics facing organizations today with Vala Afshar, Michael Krigsman, and Mitch Lieberman. During the course of the conversation, we riffed on what digital even means, the intersection between the digital … Read More»
Leveraging the Internet of Everything to Create a Better Customer Experience
The other day I received a letter in the mail. What was in the letter left me feeling depressed. It left me feeling inadequate, unprepared, incapable of mustering the mental and emotional energy to complete it's request. You see it wasn't asking me to do something that I'd never done before. It … Read More»
Sports, Crowdsourcing, and Analytics: A Case Study
This year, the Sacramento Kings crowdsourced intelligence about who they should take in the 2014 NBA draft. Grantland created two well done videos (embedded below) that chronicle the process of leveraging relatively obscure, but passionate and skilled talent to make (what turned out to be) a $4.7 … Read More»
Why Big Data won’t solve your Big Problems
If you follow this blog at all, you know that I work tirelessly trying to piece together tomorrow's technology with the challenges of today to help organizations grow; by creating new value propositions and better customer experiences. The world we live in is being re-architected into an … Read More»
Demand for speed driving investment in customer analytics & marketing technology
The cabbie welcomed me and we started on our way to Dulles. The snow had been falling for hours, and his impression was that people would be trying to beat the weather. I was indeed leaving a bit early to make sure to catch my flight back to the West Coast. The email I received that morning from my … Read More»
Fantasy Football, Big Data, and the narrowing of Information Assymetry
Tonight, the 2013-2014 NFL season kicks off. The popularity of the sport continues to grow beyond expectations. Along with it, the fantasy football season also begins. Trash talking, trades, billions of dollars in so-called "lost productivity" for corporations. It also continues to grow in … Read More»
Podcast: The Impact of Digital Innovation on the Customer Experience
I was recently honored to be a featured guest on IBM's Big Data Podcast with David Pittman. The "Digitization of Everything" is quickly changing how organizations find, engage, and respond to their customers, and we dug into some of the ways this is playing out, and how organizations should be … Read More»
Enterprise Software Chronicles: A synthesis of the rapidly evolving customer technology landscape
Over the past several weeks, I've had the privilege to have hundreds of conversations with technology vendor executives, resellers and system integrators, consultants and companies of all sizes (enterprise, mid-sized, and SMBs) across a variety of industries; high tech, professional services, … Read More»
IBM Watson enters the realm of customer engagement
While I get to see and hear about hundreds of product announcements, this one is particularly interesting. The race to leverage computing power to synthesize incredibly huge amounts of disparate data in real time to meet the needs of customer demands is the next frontier of customer … Read More»
Location Revisited: Marketing’s cornerstone takes on a new paradigm
Location, location, location. The concept immediately brings back to mind college marketing classes and textbooks; clear lessons from industrial age distribution models. The focus has slowly faded away, however, over the past couple of decades with the invention and growth of a digitally … Read More»