MARK BEAN

"The combination of direction and speed is critical as companies extend and evolve their current IT..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:09:37 -0700

“The combination of direction and speed is critical as companies extend and evolve their current IT systems and lines of business applications for the 21st century workplace. Running in the right direction requires the ability to engage and align your people, customers, channels, partners to common goals and objectives. With it, companies can implement new business strategies and processes at scale while de-positioning competitors. I call this Business Velocity.”

- Velocity Wins in Today’s Fast-Changing Business World - Innovation Insights

"The most pressing topic facing global businesses is dealing with the accelerating rate of change...."

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:08:51 -0700

“The most pressing topic facing global businesses is dealing with the accelerating rate of change. There has been a material increase in corporate Darwinism, and a rapid acceleration of threats and opportunities. There is a new reality to doing business in the 21st Century. The convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data analytics, and business networks that connect employees, partners and customers have forced companies to be quick on their feet and adapt to industry forces on the turn of a dime — or risk extinction.”

- Velocity Wins in Today’s Fast-Changing Business World - Innovation Insights

Great use of parallax and a great article too....

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:13:07 -0700

Great use of parallax and a great article too. #daftpunk

http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/daft-punk/

Cover Story: Daft Punk | Features | Pitchfork

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:09:58 -0700

Cover Story: Daft Punk | Features | Pitchfork

How a Bitcoin Transaction works. Surprised by use of the word...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:53:42 -0700

How a Bitcoin Transaction works. Surprised by use of the word nonce. Means something different in the UK.

"The bottom line for CIOs and social is that the picture is still being drawn. It’s not just social..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:57:07 -0700

“The bottom line for CIOs and social is that the picture is still being drawn. It’s not just social business, but big data, digitization, consumerization of IT and the increase of marketers’ strategic use of digital data tools that are changing the power structure and dynamics in the C-suite and putting in flux responsibilities for technology.”

- Can CIOs Step Up and Be Leaders in Social Media? | MIT Sloan Management Review

"A lack of experience in social engagement. According to a survey by the document collaboration firm..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 06:56:37 -0700

“A lack of experience in social engagement. According to a survey by the document collaboration firm Harmon.ie that measured the most social CIOs in the Fortune 250, the authors reported that “the most striking finding of our study is that only 10% of the Fortune 250 CIOs are themselves social.””

- Can CIOs Step Up and Be Leaders in Social Media? | MIT Sloan Management Review

If you want to know why nearly all companies suck at content...

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:53:54 -0700

If you want to know why nearly all companies suck at content marketing, these two charts should make it abundantly clear. Org charts? Committees? That is a good way to slow the process and lose in a world that moves at the speed of social media and memes. Oh, and then you have to add “legal review” to everything…

Less is more when it comes to creating and delivering great content marketing. Relevance and timeliness is everything. That is something you do not get out of meetings, committees and cross-functional groups.

(via marksbirch) obsessivecompulsive:

Happy Star Wars Day!

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:12:30 -0700

Happy Star Wars Day!

georgedearing: “Information is not a panacea and is not a...

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:55:32 -0700

georgedearing:

“Information is not a panacea and is not a substitute for the physical integration of new systems. But it is becoming the glue binding the holistic, system-wide approach that is starting to define the intelligent efficiency business.”

"Markets, customers and competitors are constantly evolving, though. To keep up, business learning..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:22:05 -0700

“Markets, customers and competitors are constantly evolving, though. To keep up, business learning also has to shift from an occasional event to a continuous, ongoing activity. Innovation itself is a good example. Until recently, it was all about products and services. Now, it’s increasingly focused on finding new ways to operate. But as Fortune Magazine points out, “business-model innovation is a competency that doesn’t exist in most companies. It never had to.””

- If MBAs are useless, we’re all in big trouble - Quartz

"This is critical to our strategy. We feel that content needs to extend into all sorts of business..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:42 -0700

“This is critical to our strategy. We feel that content needs to extend into all sorts of business applications that you may want to use. As you look at the social enterprise and collaboration space more broadly, Jive is the clear leader. So the deeper that we can combine our products and services, it creates one unified experience for customers. And true to Tony being the master of the enterprise, they are in a very big number of large companies that we’re now starting to serve. This will only accelerate that. At a more meta-level, it represents a bigger trend. Five or 10 years ago you were forced to buy all your technology as a single large stack from an Oracle or an SAP. But now because of collaborations like this, and because of open APIs, you can mix and match the best IT products and services. That will fundamentally change the IT landscape. Startups and disruptors will be highly favored over established players.”

- Box’s Aaron Levie and Jive’s Tony Zingale Talk About Teaming Up - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

Perhaps a Chief Digital Officer is just the beginning. What...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:39:37 -0700

Perhaps a Chief Digital Officer is just the beginning. What we’re really talking about is someone who can bridge marketing, sales, service, and technology to create a frictionless path between customers and the business…at every step of the journey. Perhaps it’s time to think about escalating the role to someone who can own the entire customer lifecycle and bring the people within the organization together to do it. To break down walls, someone must be able to show how and why everyone can and should work together and also what’s in it for them. It would take someone who isn’t tied to any one function but instead someone who has everybody’s best interest inside and outside the organization to redefine the experience and how it’s formed and sustained. (via The Imminent Shift from Social to Digital Engagement - Brian Solis)

Gone are the days of working in a traditional office setting,...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:08:30 -0700

Gone are the days of working in a traditional office setting, where cubicles separate colleagues and the only social interactions occur around the water cooler. The rise in coworking spaces around the world have left more people yearning for work environments that are collaborative, inspiring, and stimulating. (via Coworking: Is It Just A Fad Or The Future Of Business? - Forbes)

“… it feels like we’re starting to be able to train...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:26:51 -0700

“… it feels like we’re starting to be able to train a serious “computational telescope” on the “social universe”. And it’s letting us discover all sorts of phenomena. That have the potential to help us understand much more about society and about ourselves. And that, by the way, provide great examples of what can be achieved with data science, and with the technology I’ve been working on developing for so long.” (via Stephen Wolfram Blog : Data Science of the Facebook World)

#afternoon #double #expresso #sacramento (at 33rd Street...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:39:22 -0700

#afternoon #double #expresso #sacramento (at 33rd Street Bistro)

Dance Dance Friday Song of the Day Daft Punk | Get Lucky Because...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:41:00 -0700

Dance Dance Friday Song of the Day

Daft Punk | Get Lucky

Because it’s the official release, and has much better audio than the leak. Also, It’s catchy as f$ck and I’ve already listened to it six times today.

Nevada

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:41:40 -0700

Nevada

"No other department has changed as dramatically over the years as marketing. The shift from offline..."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:45:48 -0700

“No other department has changed as dramatically over the years as marketing. The shift from offline to online and the ability to track, analyze, and optimize marketing spend has given way to a new era of marketers.”

- Doubling Down on Digital Marketing: Our Investment in Demandbase : Scale Venture Partners

Happy #MothersDay (via St. Mary’s Art and Retreat Center |...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:49:27 -0700

Happy #MothersDay (via St. Mary’s Art and Retreat Center | Through the Years Mother’s Day Tea)