In the new omni-channel environment, retailers are facing demands for convenience, value, and connected solutions—all to create the ultimate consumer experience. The opportunity for game-changing success is stunning, but the benefits are matched by some daunting challenges. From cyber security to privacy, retail leaders must understand this revolution to reap its rewards while minimizing business threats. In this viewpoint, Booz Allen's experts explain the elements of the retail revolution as well as what retailers must do to thrive amid disruption.
Can Financial Institutions be the next Digital Masters? Capgemini says YESCapgemini
With Millennials coming of age it is even more important than ever for Financial Institutions to provide a strong digital experience. In order to deliver that Financial Institutions need to become Digital Masters - accelerating their digital business, turn data into insights, transform the customer experience and embrace the mobile mind shift.
Capgemini’s Trends in Transformation powered by HPE is your Jedi Master. Are you ready to become a Digital Master? Join us to start your journey.
Presented at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2016.
I made resume ini shareable format (PDF) from article Tangui Catlin, Jay Scanlan, & Paul Wilmoot (they are from McKinsey) titled "Raising Your Digital Quotient".
I hope this file can be shared to anyone that need it. You can read how McKinsey can estimates your company related to DQ (Digital Quotient).
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With the pace of change in the world accelerating around us, it can be hard to remember that the digital revolution is still in its early days. Massive changes have come about since the packet-switch network and the microprocessor were invented, nearly 50 years ago. A look at the rising rate of discovery in fundamental R&D and in practical engineering leaves little doubt that more upheaval is on the way.
For incumbent companies, the stakes continue to rise. From 1965 to 2012, the “topple rate,” at which they lose their leadership positions, increased by almost 40 percent1 as digital technology ramped up competition, disrupted industries, and forced businesses to clarify their strategies, develop new capabilities, and transform their cultures. Yet the opportunity is also plain. McKinsey research shows that companies have lofty ambitions: they expect digital initiatives to deliver annual growth and cost efficiencies of 5 to 10 percent or more in the next three to five years.
Slide deck presenting objectives of Big Data Working group of Institute of Actuaries in Belgium.
The goal of the group is to discuss:
- Impact of Big Data on insurance sector and the
actuarial profession;
- Present challenges and good practices when working
with Big Data;
- Educate actuarial profession about Big Data.
Contact me at mat@motosmarty.com
Data-driven cognitive technologies will enable personalised education and improve outcomes for students, educators and administrators. Ultimately, education experiences will be transformed and improved when data can accompany the students throughout their life-long learning journey.
What is the future of education? Find out soon from our next #IBMfuturEd study.
Applied Innovation for the UnorganizationCapgemini
Many organizations are not designed to innovate effectively or fast. They lack the necessary processes, talent, risk tolerance and leadership alignment, as well as a culture that encourages, rewards and promotes innovation. In order to innovate effectively, the traditional organizations need to embrace the “Unorganization” structure to meet today’s market demands.
Capgemini’s new and tested global Applied Innovation Exchange network, breaks the traditional model; instead taking a multi-party collaborative approach and balancing external and internal thinking to assist organizations in cultivating and applying innovation within their enterprises, and specifically to their most strategic business processes.
Presented by Lanny Cohen, Group Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini at Sogeti’s VINT Symposium
Learn more on Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchanges: https://www.capgemini.com/applied-innovation-exchange
McKinsey partner Jason Heller provides an overview of the key technologies that will impact the business landscape: artificial intelligence, automation and impact on the future workforce, virtual reality, augmented reality, the Internet of things, and data security.
A data monetization framework from Accenture Interactive. Three questions your company should answer to start realizing revenue opportunities from your data.
Your cognitive future in retail industryTero Angeria
Cognitive + retail = the future
Welcome to the age of cognitive computing, where intelligent machines simulate human brain capabilities to help solve society’s most vexing problems. For retail,cognitive computing has already arrived, and its potential to transform the industry is enormous. Cognitive systems are driving more personalized
shopping experiences and helping unearth customer trends. Our research reveals that retail leaders globally are poised to embrace this groundbreaking technology more holistically and, by doing so, will redefine the future in retail.
Can Financial Institutions be the next Digital Masters? Capgemini says YESCapgemini
With Millennials coming of age it is even more important than ever for Financial Institutions to provide a strong digital experience. In order to deliver that Financial Institutions need to become Digital Masters - accelerating their digital business, turn data into insights, transform the customer experience and embrace the mobile mind shift.
Capgemini’s Trends in Transformation powered by HPE is your Jedi Master. Are you ready to become a Digital Master? Join us to start your journey.
Presented at HPE Discover Las Vegas 2016.
I made resume ini shareable format (PDF) from article Tangui Catlin, Jay Scanlan, & Paul Wilmoot (they are from McKinsey) titled "Raising Your Digital Quotient".
I hope this file can be shared to anyone that need it. You can read how McKinsey can estimates your company related to DQ (Digital Quotient).
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With the pace of change in the world accelerating around us, it can be hard to remember that the digital revolution is still in its early days. Massive changes have come about since the packet-switch network and the microprocessor were invented, nearly 50 years ago. A look at the rising rate of discovery in fundamental R&D and in practical engineering leaves little doubt that more upheaval is on the way.
For incumbent companies, the stakes continue to rise. From 1965 to 2012, the “topple rate,” at which they lose their leadership positions, increased by almost 40 percent1 as digital technology ramped up competition, disrupted industries, and forced businesses to clarify their strategies, develop new capabilities, and transform their cultures. Yet the opportunity is also plain. McKinsey research shows that companies have lofty ambitions: they expect digital initiatives to deliver annual growth and cost efficiencies of 5 to 10 percent or more in the next three to five years.
Slide deck presenting objectives of Big Data Working group of Institute of Actuaries in Belgium.
The goal of the group is to discuss:
- Impact of Big Data on insurance sector and the
actuarial profession;
- Present challenges and good practices when working
with Big Data;
- Educate actuarial profession about Big Data.
Contact me at mat@motosmarty.com
Data-driven cognitive technologies will enable personalised education and improve outcomes for students, educators and administrators. Ultimately, education experiences will be transformed and improved when data can accompany the students throughout their life-long learning journey.
What is the future of education? Find out soon from our next #IBMfuturEd study.
Applied Innovation for the UnorganizationCapgemini
Many organizations are not designed to innovate effectively or fast. They lack the necessary processes, talent, risk tolerance and leadership alignment, as well as a culture that encourages, rewards and promotes innovation. In order to innovate effectively, the traditional organizations need to embrace the “Unorganization” structure to meet today’s market demands.
Capgemini’s new and tested global Applied Innovation Exchange network, breaks the traditional model; instead taking a multi-party collaborative approach and balancing external and internal thinking to assist organizations in cultivating and applying innovation within their enterprises, and specifically to their most strategic business processes.
Presented by Lanny Cohen, Group Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini at Sogeti’s VINT Symposium
Learn more on Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchanges: https://www.capgemini.com/applied-innovation-exchange
McKinsey partner Jason Heller provides an overview of the key technologies that will impact the business landscape: artificial intelligence, automation and impact on the future workforce, virtual reality, augmented reality, the Internet of things, and data security.
A data monetization framework from Accenture Interactive. Three questions your company should answer to start realizing revenue opportunities from your data.
Your cognitive future in retail industryTero Angeria
Cognitive + retail = the future
Welcome to the age of cognitive computing, where intelligent machines simulate human brain capabilities to help solve society’s most vexing problems. For retail,cognitive computing has already arrived, and its potential to transform the industry is enormous. Cognitive systems are driving more personalized
shopping experiences and helping unearth customer trends. Our research reveals that retail leaders globally are poised to embrace this groundbreaking technology more holistically and, by doing so, will redefine the future in retail.
Companies that want to turn excellent customer experience into growth need to master Customer Journeys. Customer Journeys (the set of interactions a customer has with a brand to complete a task) and less moments of truth are what matter for a customer. Companies that master not only see an improvement in customer experience, loyalty, and operational productivity; they also see above-market growth.
Being Digital, Fast-forward to the Right Digital Strategy Fabio Mittelstaedt
Do my Company have the right Digital Strategy? Is it compelling enough to beat my competitors? Or to conquer the new digital customers from millenniums to baby boomers? Competing in a world shaped by digital technologies requires a fundamentally different approach to how strategies are developed and executed. 55% of business leaders admit that they do not yet have an enterprise-level digital strategy to support their corporate strategy. But there is a difference between developing some digital capabilities or being a digital lead in your industry. Digital disrupts business strategy. Business leaders must consider a new strategic approach.
The rise of innovation empires InfographicCapgemini
From July 2015 to February 2016, 56 innovation centers opened in 20 countries with 11 more opening soon. View the infographic to see the global shift breakdown.
PwC: New IT Platform From Strategy Through ExecutionCA Technologies
Glenn Hobbs, PwC’s technology consulting director, shares how PwC’s new IT Platform can provide the framework to transform IT organizations so they can quickly incorporate the right technology and focus on collaboration and innovation to help solve the most-critical business problems.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
In a world of digital disruption, how ready are Swiss companies to face the digital challenge? Accenture assessed the digital maturity of the largest Swiss companies and industries and offers insights into how to seize the digital opportunity.
Digital Transformation Review 9: The Digital Strategy Imperative #DTR9Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine the approaches that organizations can take to crafting a strategy for a digital age, focusing on the following key questions: 1. How do you design a digital strategy in today’s uncertain and volatile world and understand how much reinvention of the organization is required? 2. Should your company become a
platform, or be a part of one? 3. What are the most successful approaches to executing digital strategy – acquisitions, partnerships, Greenfield?
The wealth management industry has been facing a number of profound challenges after the financial crisis, making it difficult to serve the needs of HNWIs. A combination of structural and cyclical headwinds has put significant pressure on revenues, margins, and costs, leading to the emergence of trends aimed at augmenting revenues and controlling costs. This document lists the top 10 wealth management trends that are expected to impact the wealth management industry in 2016.
Stewarding Data : Why Financial Services Firms Need a Chief Data OfficierCapgemini
The C-suite could soon start to feel a little crowded, with Chief Digital Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Risk Officers
and Chief Data Officers joining the more established functional leaders. To avoid C-suite proliferation, companies need to
decide whether to elevate a new functional role to “chief” based on the strategic importance of the issue for the organization and its sector. For example, in many organizations, marketing will be so essential to performance that few would deny the need for a CMO. In financial services, data has become so mission-critical that the role of Chief Data Officer is simply essential.
Industry 4.0 is the name of the next industrial revolution which is fueled by the advancement of digital technologies. It
is dramatically changing how companies engage in business activities. As a result, the disruptive nature of Industry 4.0
demands a reassessment of the requirements for IT. On the one hand, there is the possibility that the responsibilities of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) could be taken over by other executives such as the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) or the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). On the other hand, this
recent development creates entirely new perspectives for positioning themselves and their IT departments
within the business.
The impact of digital technologies is reaching a magnitude at which IT is considered a substantial
business driver, potentially placing CIOs in the driver’s seat.
Only few organizations wise up to new digital competitors, as they usually come from outside their own sector and are not taken seriously at first. Their allegedly inferior propositions confuse prominent players, who should in fact be the very first to be fully aware of potentially disruptive innovation.
To swing into action rapidly, existing organizations would be well advised to properly analyze anything resembling digital competition. Evidently, there are clear patterns behind the startup success marking a new techno-economic reality. Ecosystems, APIs, and platforms characterize this New Normal where customers have more freedom of choice and better service at lower costs.
These successful disruptors are called two-sided market players, also known as multi-sided platform players. Companies like Uber and Airbnb are getting all the media attention, however there are over 9000 players (and counting) active in almost every industry.
The new VINT report explores the new digital competition and presents:
A analysis of the success factors of disruption
10 design principles of the new digital competition like Unbundle your organization processes, APIs first. Access over ownership and Building trust with social systems
The need for every business to develop a API-strategy
An appeal to the CIO and the IT department to use a leading digital approach and map out an offensive technological route.
Deep dive into the Trend 1 of the Technology Vision 2015 - the platform R(e)volution - and discover how industry platforms will fuel the acceleration of digital disruption during the next three to five years.
When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?Capgemini
Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative business models – is worrying traditional incumbents. Venture funding to startups is at historic highs. In just one startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion, a figure that is only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000. In recent research by GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed that businesses have to encourage creative behaviors and must disrupt their internal processes in order to do so. What does a successful strategy for responding to disruption look like? How fast have companies responded to digital disruptions? To understand more about how traditional incumbents respond to digital disruption, we conducted research spanning 100+ companies.
Transform @ Scale: How Old Economy Gets Ready for New Economy - Keynote by Karel Dörner, Partner of McKinsey & Company at the NOAH 2015 Conference in Berlin, Tempodrom on the 10th of June 2015.
Accenture Technology Vision for Industrial 2016accenture
New technologies are not just transforming how industrial companies manufacture their products. They are also having a profound impact on workforce and marketplace dynamics, creating new pathways for collaboration – amongst people, machines and organizations. Increasingly, companies’ destinies will be defined by how successfully they use digital to reorient their workforces, enable collaboration and both anticipate and drive disruption.
#DTR8: The New Innovation Paradigm for the Digital Age: Faster, Cheaper and O...Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine how organizations can create sustainable and successful innovation strategy, drawing on our global panel of industry executives and academics.
We focus on four key themes:
Which digital innovations should be on organizations' radar screens?
How should companies promote innovation and embed it into their culture?
What lessons can we draw from organizations that are stand-out innovators?
What is the role and impact of innovation centers, including the Capgemini Consulting-Altimeter Group report, "The Innovation Game: Why and How Businesses are Investing in Innovation Centers".
Booz Allen’s VAMPIRE device conducts real-time forensic
analysis in the field, performing fast and accurate,
on-site human identification and analysis of sensitive
evidence in seconds to minutes. A handheld forensics
lab, this ruggedized unit integrates custom state-of-the art
fingerprint analysis into a commercial mobile-device type
platform, creating a lightweight, portable device that
requires little forensic knowledge to perform advanced
forensic processing.
Companies that want to turn excellent customer experience into growth need to master Customer Journeys. Customer Journeys (the set of interactions a customer has with a brand to complete a task) and less moments of truth are what matter for a customer. Companies that master not only see an improvement in customer experience, loyalty, and operational productivity; they also see above-market growth.
Being Digital, Fast-forward to the Right Digital Strategy Fabio Mittelstaedt
Do my Company have the right Digital Strategy? Is it compelling enough to beat my competitors? Or to conquer the new digital customers from millenniums to baby boomers? Competing in a world shaped by digital technologies requires a fundamentally different approach to how strategies are developed and executed. 55% of business leaders admit that they do not yet have an enterprise-level digital strategy to support their corporate strategy. But there is a difference between developing some digital capabilities or being a digital lead in your industry. Digital disrupts business strategy. Business leaders must consider a new strategic approach.
The rise of innovation empires InfographicCapgemini
From July 2015 to February 2016, 56 innovation centers opened in 20 countries with 11 more opening soon. View the infographic to see the global shift breakdown.
PwC: New IT Platform From Strategy Through ExecutionCA Technologies
Glenn Hobbs, PwC’s technology consulting director, shares how PwC’s new IT Platform can provide the framework to transform IT organizations so they can quickly incorporate the right technology and focus on collaboration and innovation to help solve the most-critical business problems.
For more information on DevOps solutions from CA Technologies, please visit: http://bit.ly/1wbjjqX
In a world of digital disruption, how ready are Swiss companies to face the digital challenge? Accenture assessed the digital maturity of the largest Swiss companies and industries and offers insights into how to seize the digital opportunity.
Digital Transformation Review 9: The Digital Strategy Imperative #DTR9Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine the approaches that organizations can take to crafting a strategy for a digital age, focusing on the following key questions: 1. How do you design a digital strategy in today’s uncertain and volatile world and understand how much reinvention of the organization is required? 2. Should your company become a
platform, or be a part of one? 3. What are the most successful approaches to executing digital strategy – acquisitions, partnerships, Greenfield?
The wealth management industry has been facing a number of profound challenges after the financial crisis, making it difficult to serve the needs of HNWIs. A combination of structural and cyclical headwinds has put significant pressure on revenues, margins, and costs, leading to the emergence of trends aimed at augmenting revenues and controlling costs. This document lists the top 10 wealth management trends that are expected to impact the wealth management industry in 2016.
Stewarding Data : Why Financial Services Firms Need a Chief Data OfficierCapgemini
The C-suite could soon start to feel a little crowded, with Chief Digital Officers, Chief Innovation Officers, Chief Risk Officers
and Chief Data Officers joining the more established functional leaders. To avoid C-suite proliferation, companies need to
decide whether to elevate a new functional role to “chief” based on the strategic importance of the issue for the organization and its sector. For example, in many organizations, marketing will be so essential to performance that few would deny the need for a CMO. In financial services, data has become so mission-critical that the role of Chief Data Officer is simply essential.
Industry 4.0 is the name of the next industrial revolution which is fueled by the advancement of digital technologies. It
is dramatically changing how companies engage in business activities. As a result, the disruptive nature of Industry 4.0
demands a reassessment of the requirements for IT. On the one hand, there is the possibility that the responsibilities of Chief Information Officers (CIOs) could be taken over by other executives such as the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) or the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). On the other hand, this
recent development creates entirely new perspectives for positioning themselves and their IT departments
within the business.
The impact of digital technologies is reaching a magnitude at which IT is considered a substantial
business driver, potentially placing CIOs in the driver’s seat.
Only few organizations wise up to new digital competitors, as they usually come from outside their own sector and are not taken seriously at first. Their allegedly inferior propositions confuse prominent players, who should in fact be the very first to be fully aware of potentially disruptive innovation.
To swing into action rapidly, existing organizations would be well advised to properly analyze anything resembling digital competition. Evidently, there are clear patterns behind the startup success marking a new techno-economic reality. Ecosystems, APIs, and platforms characterize this New Normal where customers have more freedom of choice and better service at lower costs.
These successful disruptors are called two-sided market players, also known as multi-sided platform players. Companies like Uber and Airbnb are getting all the media attention, however there are over 9000 players (and counting) active in almost every industry.
The new VINT report explores the new digital competition and presents:
A analysis of the success factors of disruption
10 design principles of the new digital competition like Unbundle your organization processes, APIs first. Access over ownership and Building trust with social systems
The need for every business to develop a API-strategy
An appeal to the CIO and the IT department to use a leading digital approach and map out an offensive technological route.
Deep dive into the Trend 1 of the Technology Vision 2015 - the platform R(e)volution - and discover how industry platforms will fuel the acceleration of digital disruption during the next three to five years.
When Digital Disruption Strikes: How Can Incumbents Respond?Capgemini
Digital innovation is shaking the core of every industry and incumbents are struggling to respond. The emergence of startups such as Uber – which disrupt entire sectors with their agile, innovative business models – is worrying traditional incumbents. Venture funding to startups is at historic highs. In just one startup hotspot, Silicon Valley, venture capital investment in the first three quarters of 2014 was around $17 billion, a figure that is only surpassed by the peak of the dotcom era in 2000. In recent research by GE, two-thirds of respondents agreed that businesses have to encourage creative behaviors and must disrupt their internal processes in order to do so. What does a successful strategy for responding to disruption look like? How fast have companies responded to digital disruptions? To understand more about how traditional incumbents respond to digital disruption, we conducted research spanning 100+ companies.
Transform @ Scale: How Old Economy Gets Ready for New Economy - Keynote by Karel Dörner, Partner of McKinsey & Company at the NOAH 2015 Conference in Berlin, Tempodrom on the 10th of June 2015.
Accenture Technology Vision for Industrial 2016accenture
New technologies are not just transforming how industrial companies manufacture their products. They are also having a profound impact on workforce and marketplace dynamics, creating new pathways for collaboration – amongst people, machines and organizations. Increasingly, companies’ destinies will be defined by how successfully they use digital to reorient their workforces, enable collaboration and both anticipate and drive disruption.
#DTR8: The New Innovation Paradigm for the Digital Age: Faster, Cheaper and O...Capgemini
In this edition of the Digital Transformation Review, we examine how organizations can create sustainable and successful innovation strategy, drawing on our global panel of industry executives and academics.
We focus on four key themes:
Which digital innovations should be on organizations' radar screens?
How should companies promote innovation and embed it into their culture?
What lessons can we draw from organizations that are stand-out innovators?
What is the role and impact of innovation centers, including the Capgemini Consulting-Altimeter Group report, "The Innovation Game: Why and How Businesses are Investing in Innovation Centers".
Booz Allen’s VAMPIRE device conducts real-time forensic
analysis in the field, performing fast and accurate,
on-site human identification and analysis of sensitive
evidence in seconds to minutes. A handheld forensics
lab, this ruggedized unit integrates custom state-of-the art
fingerprint analysis into a commercial mobile-device type
platform, creating a lightweight, portable device that
requires little forensic knowledge to perform advanced
forensic processing.
ICP-MS detects elements instead of molecules. With the exception of a few elements (C, H, N, O and the noble gases), all elements can be detected. A specific element serves as a tag for the drug molecule of interest, thus enabling quantitation of this drug molecule in a particular matrix. The technique is highly linear and can be used quantitatively for a broad concentration range. Sample processing is relatively easy and throughput times are short, resulting in fast turnaround times.
User Experience Strategy for Lean Startups & UX Designers - London Tour April...Jaime Levy Consulting
User Experience Strategy for Lean Startups & UX Designers (London, England)
Lecture tour by Jaime Levy, a User Experience Strategist based in Los Angeles, CA USA
With the surge in online startups, entrepreneurs and their teams need a User Experience Strategy to differentiate their product from the competition. Through business cases and current work samples, students will learn to how to conduct a UX Gap Analysis (on the online marketplace), perform Guerilla User Researcher (for your MVP), and scope a product's feature set using a Feature Value Matrix. This class will expose how online success can be achieved by focusing on disruptive innovation coupled with a customer acquisition strategy. Google cloud-based spreadsheet templates will be made accessible so students can implement these techniques immediately in their daily practice.
The professionals at Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, understand Cloud Computing. This model has emerged as a new computing paradigm that arrays massive numbers of computers in centralized, distributed data centers to deliver web-based
applications, application platforms, and services via a utility model.
Booz Allen Mission Engineering® enables clients to reduce costs by eliminating redundant and irrelevant systems, while enhancing mission capabilities through enterprise system integration.
Booz Allen Hamilton has a clear understanding of and models for effective Cloud Computing-based life-cycle cost and economic modeling. This article focuses on Booz Allen's approach to using Cloud Computing as a "game changer" in IT-related financial planning.
The Government's Effective Migration to a Cloud Computing EnvironmentBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen recognized early on the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on how the government procures, implements, and manages its IT investments. This article discusses Booz Allen's approach on transitioning to a Cloud Computing environment.
We are need to obtain information from several local or external sources, Each source may be built in different ways, so we will face many various conflicts in the meaning or structure and other conflicts. We'll see also examples show why need data integration .
Vehicle Cyber Security: What Every Automotive Executive Needs to KnowBooz Allen Hamilton
Security is integral to developing a high-quality, high-performing vehicle. Automotive executives have begun to realize the critical ties between cyber and vehicle security, but there’s more work to do. Booz Allen experts provide four organizational changes organizations must make to get ahead of cyber challenges.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a leading strategy and technology consulting firm, has long recognized the significant impact Cloud Computing would have on organizations providing services and “products” to customers and other stakeholders.
Booz Allen brings its pioneering work in advanced analytics—and the industry-leading expertise of its more than 500-member data science team—to transform our clients’ data into actions that keep them competitive in today’s data-driven economy.
Booz Allen’s industry-leading tradecraft helps clients solve problems previously considered beyond reach. We employ groundbreaking approaches in virtually every area of data science, including analytic techniques, modeling and simulation, optimization, data visualization, and infrastructure development.
To further push that envelope, Booz Allen has made major investments in transformative technologies to help clients. For the first time ever, our Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture gives clients the ability to bring together and harness all of their available data, of all types. Our pioneering breakthroughs in computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing and other capabilities are now enabling clients to drive mission and business success in new ways.
Balancing the tension between Lean and AgileJames Coplien
Many people equate Lean and agile or claim that one is a subset of the other. In fact, they have almost opposite emphases: thinking versus doing; teams versus individuals; planning versus reacting; and many more. This talk will help you clarify the distinction in a way that will help you focus soberly on how to improve your environment, team, product and process, by going beyond the buzzwords to the fundamental building blocks.
" I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want." ~Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion and one of sport's most influential individuals dies leaving a legacy.
Pre-Con Education: Effective Change/Configuration Management With CA Service...CA Technologies
Learn important IT service management (ITSM) tips and best practices for how to implement CA Service Management's CMDB for maximum change benefit. The session will include such topics as service modeling, discovery, change audit control, federation, reconciliation and synchronization, and will be taught by CA experts in CMDB.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
The Rise and Fall of Ellen Pao. Perpetrator or Victim?Sage HR
There’s always been an old adage in the advertising world – “All publicity is good publicity” – however the sheer stupidity of that statement is enough to give old PR hands heartburn.
And the prime examples to prove its invalidity are the ups and downs of ex-Reddit interim CEO, Ellen Pao.
Since 2012, Ellen Pao has gone through an unbelievable series of highs and lows worthy of earning its own mini-series, starting with her $16 million case against former employer – Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers.
Her current peak ended on Friday with her resignation from her post at Reddit, in the face of overwhelming negative responses from Redditors’ hivemind, a roughly 213,000 signature-strong petition demanding her resignation on Change.org, and the official reason of differences with higher ups over the future growth rate of the website.
And now, the statements coming in from Reddit Board of Directors and ex-head honchos possibly suggest that Pao may have simply ended up being a patsy for the decisions of others, rendering her pain and humiliation at the hands of disgruntled Redditors entirely pointless.
One obvious fact visible to anyone who followed this high-octane drama over the last month is that none of Pao’s decisions were evaluated at face value, and instead she faced constant uphill battles due to her sexual discrimination (not harassment; there’s a difference, people) lawsuit against KPCB, with accusations of everything from “suing her way to the top” to gilding her own comments on Reddit (the ultimate taboo) flying around left and right.
Over the last few months, we’ve seen this story unfold and encompass everything from gender discrimination in big-money Silicon Valley, to the insidious power of trolls on the Internet.
So, let’s take a quick look at the past few years of Ellen Pao, and let you readers evaluate facts as you would.
Ten Things You Should not Forget in Mainframe Security CA Technologies
Given the current state of security and breaches in the news every day, you won’t want to miss this session. We will cover the top 10 areas that you should be reviewing as a security practitioner that most organizations overlook. With the knowledge taken from this session, you will be able to better educate your staff and auditors about how to take security to the next level for your business and protect z/OS®.
For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe
Data science is blending with emerging technology to create the ultimate customer experience. While these innovations are turning the fantastic into reality, there are hidden risks that lurk behind such new technologies. Booz Allen's commercial retail experts provide cybersecurity guidance for retailers in this new digital world.
India Vs Australia - A Social Media AnalysisGermin8
One of the world cup’s most anticipated matches and an HR nightmare! Even though India didn’t win the match, the social media was abuzz with support for the Men in Blue. We take a look at how the viewed and related to the #IndVsAus semifinals.
Paper Jam: Why Documents are Dragging Us DownAdobe
Professionals are eager to find a better way to work, but documents and processes are stuck in the past. See the full report: www.adobe.com/go/paperjam
Revolutionize retail operations with Dynamics 365, the ultimate solution designed to elevate the business to new heights. Seamlessly integrate sales, customer data, and inventory management for unparalleled efficiency and customer satisfaction. Embrace innovation and stay ahead of the competition with Dynamics 365 for Retail.
What are the top 5 marketing strategies of cyber security business?ExpertsConsult
The technique of providing protection to computers, network, programs and data from unauthorized access or attacks is defined as cybersecurity. Industry experts view as a potential to maintain the confidentiality, integrity and data availability of business.
IBM Guide to Consumer Products Industry Technology TrendsTero Angeria
This guide provides a quick overview of what we believe manufacturers need to address within each of these
technological transformation areas and how IBM solutions can support that transformation.
IBM offers manufacturers the integrated solutions and services required to keep pace with today’s transformational business requirements. Based on the experiences and feedback from working with many leading consumer products clients around the globe, we have designed a portfolio of offerings that addresses the specific needs of consumer products companies from strategy and roadmap development to integrated software solution delivery all focused on using technology enablers to create new value across your enterprise.We help manufacturers deepen their relationships with their consumers, offer differentiated value to channel partners to generate competitive advantage, establish supply network improvements to increase efficiencies and achieve operational excellence—all for the express purpose of
supporting continued profitable growth.
The linking of computers around the world is going to have far reaching effects, and the spread of knowledge, the interchange of ideas and the dissemination of information are going to produce a revolution in our society. Digital business use technology to create new value in business models, customer experiences and the internal capabilities that support its core operations. The term includes both digital only brands and traditional players that are transforming their businesses with digital technologies. the more important benefits derived from developing a digital business include the ability of your organization to rapidly develop and move into new markets uncover and form partnerships reach new customers and expand your brand with new and existing customers as an innovator, among many others. Digital business is about the creation of new business designs by blurring the physical and digital world. It is about the interaction and negotiations between, business, and things. A. Karthik | M. Karthikeyan | P. H. Gopikannan "Digital Business" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-6 , October 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd33644.pdf Paper Url: https://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/33644/digital-business/a-karthik
A Framework for Digital Business TransformationCognizant
By embracing Code Halo thinking and a programmatic approach to business process change, organizations can better engage with customers and deliver mass-customized products and services that drive differentiation and outperformance.
You Can Hack That: How to Use Hackathons to Solve Your Toughest ChallengesBooz Allen Hamilton
“Hackathon” has become a trendy word in today’s business vernacular, and for good reason. The word “hackathon” comes from both “hack” and “marathon.” If you think of a “hack” as a creative solution and “marathon” as a continuous, often competitive event, you’re at the heart of what a hackathon is about. Hackathons enable creative problem solving through an innovative and often competitive structure that engages stakeholders to come up with unconventional solutions to pressing challenges. Hackathons can be used to develop new processes, products, ways of thinking, or ways of engaging stakeholders and partners, with benefits ranging from solving tough problems to broader cultural and organizational improvements.
This playbook was designed to make hackathons accessible to everyone. That means not only can all kinds of organizations benefit from hackathons, but that all kinds of employees inside those groups—executives, project managers, designers, or engineers—should participate and can benefit, too. Use this playbook as a reference and allow the best practices we outline to guide you in designing a hackathon structure that works for you and enables your organization to achieve its desired outcomes. Give yourself anywhere from six weeks to a few months to plan your hackathon, depending on the components, approach, number of participants, and desired outcomes.
Contact Director Brian MacCarthy at MacCarthy_Brian2@bah.com for more information about Booz Allen’s hackathon offering.
Booz Allen's U.S. Commercial Leader and Executive Vice President, Bill Phelps, recently released his list of 10 Cyber Priorities for Boards of Directors. As we peer into how business, technology, regulatory, and cyber threat realities are evolving in the coming year, here is a reference guide for board members to use in validating their company's cybersecurity approach.
We looked at the data. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics about the nation’s incoming presidents’ addresses, how long they spoke, how well, and more.
Our Military Spouse Forum built a roadmap to help you navigate your career between deployments, moves, and the unpredictable. Interested in how Booz Allen can help you navigate your career? Check out our opportunities at www.boozallen.com/careers
In August 2016, Booz Allen partnered with Market Connections to conduct a survey of National Security Leaders and the General Public to understand their perspectives on the current threats. Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, we wanted to know what keeps them up at night today, and what they will be worried about in 15 years. This infographic provides the high-level results of our survey and we will be releasing a more detailed report later in the month of September – so stay tuned. #NationalSecurity2031
Booz Allen convened some of the smartest minds to explore making healthcare more accessible. This report shares the latest healthcare payment trends and what policy experts discovered when planning for different health reform scenarios.
An interactive workshop that guides you through the many relationships that exist in an agile team, with a business value emphasis. Team members gain empathy, discover expectations of others and the importance of these agile team relationships.
An immersive environment allows students to be completely “immersed” in a self-contained simulated or artificial environment while experiencing it as real. With immersive learning, you can show realistic visual and training environments to teach complex tasks and concepts.
Nuclear Promise: Reducing Cost While Improving PerformanceBooz Allen Hamilton
To remain competitive, nuclear operators must take aim at all addressable costs, ensuring maintenance is optimized, taking proactive steps to minimize unplanned outages and, where possible, reducing administrative and other overhead costs. There are multiple opportunities to reduce capital and operational spending, while improving safety and reliability.
General Motors and Lyft; Target and Walmart; Netflix and Amazon - we call these “frenemies”. A strange trend is emerging as unlikely partner companies join forces, and they’re transforming industries around the world. Understanding what's driving the frenemies trend, knowing what options best fit your needs, and making yourself an effective partner are all critical to success.
Threats to industrial control systems are on the rise. This briefing explores potential threats and vulnerabilities as well as what organizations can do to guard against them.
Booz Allen Hamilton and Market Connections: C4ISR Survey ReportBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton partnered with government market research firm Market Connections, Inc. to conduct the survey of military decision-makers. The research examined the main features of Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration: engineering, operations and acquisition. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) agree agile incremental delivery of modular systems with integrated capabilities can enable rapid insertion of new technologies.
Modern C4ISR Integrates, Innovates and Secures Military NetworksBooz Allen Hamilton
A majority of the military believe Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration would provide utility to their organization. Check out other key findings from our study in this infographic http://bit.ly/1OZOjG2
Agile and Open C4ISR Systems - Helping the Military Integrate, Innovate and S...Booz Allen Hamilton
Integrated C4ISR is a force multiplier that significantly improves situational awareness and decision making to give warfighters a decisive battlefield advantage. This advantage stems from Booz Allen Hamilton’s Enterprise Integration approach http://bit.ly/25nDBRg: bringing together three disciplines and their communities—engineering, operations, and acquisition.
Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
1. Commercial Solutions
Retail Revolution
Thrive in Disruption
If you’re working in the retail industry, you probably need a moment to catch your breath. In the
new omni-channel environment, retailers are facing demands for convenience, value, and
connected solutions—all to create the ultimate consumer experience. The opportunity for game-
changing success is stunning, but the benefits are matched by some daunting challenges. From
cyber security to privacy, retail leaders must understand this revolution to reap its rewards while
minimizing business threats.
Opportunity & Risk in a Shifting Landscape
While the retail evolution is constant, the industry revolution is in response to four key factors
that impact business today—and tomorrow.
Technological advances are in their infancy.
GPS-enabled mobile devices, social media, and facial recognition technologies are driving
integrated services and new sources of revenue. During the past year, retail mobile ad
spending increased by more than 400%. The use of social networks by the shopping
millennial— with 57% comparing prices and 24% seeking opinions—opens the door for new,
highly tailored customer interactions. Retailers who seize the opportunities of emerging
technologies will stay out in front.
Analytics are creating the ultimate consumer experience.
Retailers are profiting from advances in data science, with an estimated 10% increase in sales
from implementing data analytics. The traditional boundaries between brick-and-mortar stores,
e-commerce, and mobile platforms have crumbled, leading 70% of retailers to adopt an omni-
channel strategy that links in-store and digital experiences. With increased data capture, there
will be more opportunities for analytics implementation and revenue generation.
Cybersecurity demands attention from the C-suite.
Retailers are in a tough spot, working to balance innovative opportunities with new and
unknown threats. The retail industry is impacted by 24% of all breaches, second only to financial
services, with the average cost of a single incident doubling between 2013 and 2014 to $8.6
million per company. Cyber security is no longer only the purview of IT shops: It requires
executive attention.
Consumers expect privacy.
Retailers are charged with the responsibility of protecting valuable consumer information. Most
mega retailers have modified their privacy policy to avoid regulatory penalties and maintain
customer trust. To create a competitive advantage, however, you must build comprehensive
and integrated privacy programs from the ground up. These programs should include corporate
data capture strategies that do not inhibit customers’ increased demands for convenience,
flexibility, and security.
Booz Allen Commercial Solutions
combines industry knowledge and
relevant experience with the right
people and technologies to reduce
risk, improve safety, and increase
profitability for your business.
Together, we help you thrive—
today, tomorrow, and beyond.
For more information, contact:
Sedar Labarre
Vice President
Tel +1 202-346-9201
labarre_sedar@bah.com
Jennifer Barnes
Principal
Tel +1 917-305-8008
barnes_jennifer@bah.com
Jim Koenig
Principal
Tel +1 267-330-7822
koenig_james@bah.com
Susan Maly
Senior Associate
Tel +1 703-377-6448
maly_susan@bah.com
www.boozallen.com/commercial
2. Navigate the Revolution
Meeting change on so many fronts will lead some to play it safe, but today’s retail landscape doesn’t
favor slow-developing strategies. Retailers need an agenda to excel—and win—now.
Don’t just analyze the past: Use analytics to look forward.
Retailers have long used data to understand buying patterns and customer preferences. With
advances in analytics, these capabilities can now be forward looking and predictive.
• Opt in: Implement privacy guidelines—considering opt-in vs. opt-out models—in tandem with
digital listening and targeted marketing to connect with consumers in a new light.
• Put data to work: Develop prioritization models to collect the right data. Build dashboard
analytic tools to uncover relevant, consumable, and actionable insights.
Continue to blur the distinction between storefront and web.
The “us versus them” of brick & mortar and online retailers is obsolete. Consumer electronics
advance quickly, and you operate in their world and according to their needs.
• Embrace mobile: Invest in mobile applications and geo-location, m-commerce, and other
mobile capabilities.
• Be social (not just online): Integrate social media and targeted marketing into all sales
platforms and merge mobile into the storefront to drive digital customer interaction.
• Anticipate the next change: Deploy an innovative trend forecasting capability to understand
where your next challenge may lie.
Anyone can throw money at the cyber problem. Invest in the right security.
Borrowing ideas from government and the financial sector, you can make smart investments in new
cyber security capabilities that help prevent attacks or limit their impact.
• Start with the basics: Adopt secure data transfer solutions, track cyber traffic, analyze and
elevate anomalies, and be ready to act when something goes wrong.
• Know your adversary: Analyze threat actors’ known behaviors to understand, identify, and
prevent targeted attacks.
• Know your weaknesses: Map your ecosystem to identify all connectivity points so you can
visualize your risk.
Embrace privacy as an opportunity.
You understand your customer like never before, but all of that data needs protecting. To maintain
customer trust, privacy must move from back office compliance to executive priority.
• Design for privacy: From data management systems to social media campaigns, make privacy
part of the discussion from the start.
• Recognize the brand impact: Get privacy wrong, and you risk derailing your reputation. Get it
right—especially compared to competitors—and you have a brand-elevating opportunity.
At Booz Allen, we think differently. We help clients re-imagine the market landscape to anticipate
interdependencies created by new technology and respond. We are leaders in the emerging
challenges facing industry—in cyber, analytics, privacy, and beyond. Our success is measured by our
ability to help organizations transform to mitigate risk and realize market opportunity.
The only way to thrive amid disruption is
to take bold action with a focused agenda.
Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for more than a century. The firm provides
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