In just a few more days, we will host Nigel Fenwick, Vice President and Principal Analyst Digital Strategy at Forrester. We’ve been collaborating for a few months on the topics we will address and the format. Nigel walked us through some of his answers to our questions today, and I’m pretty excited about the webinar. […]
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Top Three Reasons I'm Excited About the Forrester Digital Webinar
In just a few more days, we will host Nigel Fenwick, Vice President and Principal Analyst Digital Strategy at Forrester. We’ve been collaborating for a few months on the topics we will address and the format. Nigel walked us through some of his answers to our questions today, and I’m pretty excited about the webinar. […]
How to Make the Power of Digital Communities Work for You
The demand for hyper-connected digital experiences continues with a shift in how organizations are approaching communication and brand interactions but many brands are still missing the mark. This means more than just having one-way marketing coversations with your audience on Facebook and Twitter or infusing mobile apps. Companies need next-generation experiences that are directly plugged into core business processes, […]
It’s All About the Why
How many times have you put off doing something that you should do because there was no sense of urgency, and you thought you’d just get to it later? If you’re like me, it happens all the time. If we take a deeper look into why we don’t take action on those things, it’s because […]
Digital Leadership Turns into Better Business Performance
We’ve been talking about how digital transformation is essential to success in the future. Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and Redhat recently published a study that shows digital leaders are more likely to be successful than followers or laggards. Here are a few key points from the study: Digital leaders are more likely to have […]
Richer, More Personalized Customer Experiences for an API Economy
At the IBM Digital Experience 2015 Conference, Ajay Kadakia with IBM talked about how the API economy is affecting legacy IT companies versus the newer cloud-based companies. The challenge is how to provide more agile, market reactive content off the legacy systems when competing against seemingly more agile, cloud based systems. Ajay talked about the […]
8 Benefits of Microservices
Microservices are small, independent services that work together. In other words, these services are small, highly decoupled and focus on doing a small task at a time. Follow the Single Responsibility Principle Resilient/Flexible – failure in one service does not impact other services. If you have monolithic or bulky service errors in one service/module it […]
How to do API Versioning
1- URL based versioning Easy and very common way to version api is to include version no in api url. For e.g. http://myapi/v1.0.0 , http://myapi/v1.0.1 Easy to use and identify different version by looking URL. Over time need to maintain various urls 2- Using query param Another easy to use startegy for api versioning For […]
How to Project Manage a Sales Cloud Rollout
Whether you have invested in Sales Cloud because you are upgrading your current method of tracking sales or because you need to scale up from a non-cloud version of sales tracking, you want to make sure your project is a success. This drive for success will ensure better returns on investment, better future decision […]
The Need for Change Management is Everywhere
I was talking to a gentleman at the pool last night as we wrapped up a great Memorial Day weekend. He was telling me about the opening of a renovated restaurant at a private club, for which he’s overseeing the construction and has ultimate responsibility for. This restaurant is going to be a relatively high-end […]
Change Management – The soft side of projects? Not so fast!
How often do you hear Change Management referred to as “the soft side of the project?” Maybe you’ve even done it yourself. Just last week, I was at a client site, describing what I do to a client employee, and the response from the client was, “Oh, you deal with people – the soft stuff.” […]
From Customizable to Collaborative Forecasting
When Salesforce introduced Customizable Forecasting we saw an amazing tool for sales teams to communicate essential views on their opportunities to management. It allowed sales reps to paint a clear picture of the numbers based on their real-world experience that was previously lost within the rigid confines of system-defined parameters. Having this ability within […]