Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014
Many of you know that over the last several years I’ve tried to make the case that most organizations are currently falling behind the advancing pace of technological change. That business is so...
View ArticleGoing Beyond ‘Bolt-On’ Digital Transformation
Much has been made recently of the imperative to fully transition our businesses into the modern digital world. It now hardly needs to be said at this point. There is even some encouraging news for...
View ArticleLet The Network Do The Work
One of the most striking things I’ve seen when watching organizations make the transition from legacy industrial models of working to new network-based models, is that we keep trying to employ the new...
View ArticleDreamforce 14: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote #df14
The enormous crowd here is streaming into the main keynote with Marc Benioff here at Moscone Center on Tuesday. it’s nearly 1pm PT and the main hall is filing up quickly. I’ll live blog the event here...
View ArticleUnified Collaboration: How Social Business and Other Forms of Digital...
The rich history of digital collaboration in the last 30 years has been a long and winding one. Fortunately, it’s also been a highly rewarding story that has led to literally historic advances in...
View ArticleHow Leaders Can Address the Challenges of Digital Transformation
2015 marks ten years in which I’ve been working in the trenches with organizations at a leadership level to drive some form of major change that intertwines technology, networks, and people. Back in...
View ArticleThe Strategic Value of Social Business: What We’ve Learned
Recently, I had the need to gather our latest research from research, clients, and case studies on the established performance of social business for the Future of Work master class I delivered in...
View ArticleWhat Are the Required Skills for Today’s Digital Workforce?
As I spend a great deal of time every year looking at the latest technological advances for the enterprise, I’ve noticed a trend in recent years that’s long been true but is clearly markedly...
View ArticleDreamforce 17: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote #df17
I’m sitting here in the vast keynote chamber within Moscone Center in San Francisco again this year for Salesforce’s annual confab. Long since an obligatory pilgrimage for those in enterprise SaaS and...
View ArticleDigital Transformation in 2018: Sustainably Delivering on the Promise at Scale
In 2017, we witnessed organizations take up the mantle of digital transformation with more conviction and effort than any time before. Funding, commitment, and leadership support was at its highest...
View ArticleDesigning the Digital Workplace for the End-to-End Employee Experience
As digital becomes instrumental to virtually every aspect of how we do our work in organizations today, two parallel and closely related concerns have joined the industry discussion. These two...
View Article10 Leading Books on Social Business
During the research for our forthcoming book, Social Business By Design, I ended up taking a close look at a number of other excellent titles on the subject. In the end, I came away concluding there...
View ArticleSocial Business in Australia in 2012
While traveling around the world recently to discuss social business in Asia and Eastern Europe, I’ve been reminded by the sheer speed at which social networks are changing how we communicate. Most of...
View ArticleThis Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise
It’s time for most organizations today to uplevel their technology stance: They must become profoundly proactive about external change and innovation. That’s because technology change is currently...
View ArticleDreamforce 12: Live Blogging the Benioff Keynote
There is plenty of buzz and excitement here at Dreamforce 12 right now, with an estimated double the number of attendees as last year (90,000 by last count), which is saying something. Peter Coffee is...
View ArticleImagining the Future of the Enterprise
This afternoon at a workshop in Stuttgart, Germany at the KnowTech conference I explored our latest conception of the many transformative technology changes happening within our organizations today....
View ArticleHow Work Will Evolve in a Digital Post-Pandemic Society
The current outbreak of COVID-19 is stress testing our institutions, infrastructure, governments, and societies more than any event in most of our lifetimes. We have to go all the way back to the two...
View ArticleHow Work Will Evolve in a Digital Post-Pandemic Society
The current outbreak of COVID-19 is stress testing our institutions, infrastructure, governments, and societies more than any event in most of our lifetimes. We have to go all the way back to the two...
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