Wheelhouse Analytics develops intuitive business applications for tablets that aim to improve efficiency. Their SALESBAG application allows salespeople to plan, present, and follow up on sales more effectively. New technologies like tablets are influencing businesses by enabling more mobile and collaborative work, though many companies have been slow to adopt these technologies. Wheelhouse sees opportunities for businesses to leverage tablets to improve meetings and customer interactions.
White Paper - Charting the course, An odyssey of Operational TransformationPablo Junco
Operational Transformation (OT) is about changing enterprise’s business operations to serve their digital customers’ needs and expectations.
OT is Core to every Enterprise’s Digital Transformation journey focusing on operational excellence with a customer centric approach.
Enterprises are increasingly rely on Emergency Technologies such as Cognitive Services, Intelligent Agents/Apps, Internet of Things, and Value-Exchange Apps (Blockchain) to create differentiating operational digital capabilities to drive sustainable business & shareholder value.
Mobility is an opportunity to reinvent your business. Innovate your product, process or business model with the help of mobile and tap into a whole new world of service offerings and revenue streams. Here are some companies that exemplify what we mean together with tangible tips on how you can reinvent your business through mobility.
Outcome Engineering 101: Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create I...Cognizant
It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design mindset. As technology informs design, and good design arms technology to become most effective by engaging with users, the two now sit at the top of the product development pyramid to co-create success.
Outcome Engineering 101: Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create I...Cognizant
It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design mindset. As technology informs design, and good design arms technology to become most effective by engaging with users, the two now sit at the top of the product development pyramid to co-create success.
White Paper - Charting the course, An odyssey of Operational TransformationPablo Junco
Operational Transformation (OT) is about changing enterprise’s business operations to serve their digital customers’ needs and expectations.
OT is Core to every Enterprise’s Digital Transformation journey focusing on operational excellence with a customer centric approach.
Enterprises are increasingly rely on Emergency Technologies such as Cognitive Services, Intelligent Agents/Apps, Internet of Things, and Value-Exchange Apps (Blockchain) to create differentiating operational digital capabilities to drive sustainable business & shareholder value.
Mobility is an opportunity to reinvent your business. Innovate your product, process or business model with the help of mobile and tap into a whole new world of service offerings and revenue streams. Here are some companies that exemplify what we mean together with tangible tips on how you can reinvent your business through mobility.
Outcome Engineering 101: Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create I...Cognizant
It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design mindset. As technology informs design, and good design arms technology to become most effective by engaging with users, the two now sit at the top of the product development pyramid to co-create success.
Outcome Engineering 101: Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create I...Cognizant
It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design mindset. As technology informs design, and good design arms technology to become most effective by engaging with users, the two now sit at the top of the product development pyramid to co-create success.
How will upgrading your people impact your bottom line?Allison Thrush
Illustrating the need for IT training as an integral element of computing optimization. Too frequently the budget to provide user training to take advantage of the new features and tools is lacking or dismissed as unnecessary.
Develop a long-term IT plan while implementing customized IT solutions. Learn about the help desk evolution, top future IT issues, and how to move from a steady approach to stable applications.
Technology Will Disrupt - Why, What and How?Helge Tennø
Why, what and how? Understanding the future by looking at the building blocks of business, technology and people. “The future is only complex if you fail to understand it from the point of view of what is driving the change.”
POS technologies have been helping all of us by becoming the secured payment method globally. This is why companies are getting themselves inclined with the POS industry, as it holds the most effective solutions.
The ' New Style of IT ’ raises many discussions around the opportunities that technology trends such as cloud, mobility, big data and social bring to bear. But how do these trends influence the role of the CIO?
How New Technology Trends Will Disrupt the Very Nature of Business Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how major new trends and technology are translating into disruption, and for the innovative business -- opportunity.
The Open Group Digital Practitioner Effort Provides Guidance to Ease Digital ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how The Open Group is closing the gap between IT education, business methods, and what it takes as a culture to succeed over the next decade.
This is the updated version of my successful Interaction 14 talk: http://www.slideshare.net/folletto/the-shift-ux-designers-as-business-consultants
UX is a broad field and designers are increasingly playing a strategic role in many companies. Be that designer.
Businesses are increasingly adopting user-centered approaches to create experiences, moving UX design to be one of the core activities driving the company strategy and operations.
This is an incredibly valuable opportunity that we designers can take to step up and contribute to create the great experiences and services they envision, taking our vision, tools and understanding to a different level. But we need to learn the new skills to play at this table, a table that's often speaking a different language with a lot of politics and different stakeholders.
How will upgrading your people impact your bottom line?Allison Thrush
Illustrating the need for IT training as an integral element of computing optimization. Too frequently the budget to provide user training to take advantage of the new features and tools is lacking or dismissed as unnecessary.
Develop a long-term IT plan while implementing customized IT solutions. Learn about the help desk evolution, top future IT issues, and how to move from a steady approach to stable applications.
Technology Will Disrupt - Why, What and How?Helge Tennø
Why, what and how? Understanding the future by looking at the building blocks of business, technology and people. “The future is only complex if you fail to understand it from the point of view of what is driving the change.”
POS technologies have been helping all of us by becoming the secured payment method globally. This is why companies are getting themselves inclined with the POS industry, as it holds the most effective solutions.
The ' New Style of IT ’ raises many discussions around the opportunities that technology trends such as cloud, mobility, big data and social bring to bear. But how do these trends influence the role of the CIO?
How New Technology Trends Will Disrupt the Very Nature of Business Dana Gardner
Transcript of a sponsored discussion on how major new trends and technology are translating into disruption, and for the innovative business -- opportunity.
The Open Group Digital Practitioner Effort Provides Guidance to Ease Digital ...Dana Gardner
Transcript of a discussion on how The Open Group is closing the gap between IT education, business methods, and what it takes as a culture to succeed over the next decade.
This is the updated version of my successful Interaction 14 talk: http://www.slideshare.net/folletto/the-shift-ux-designers-as-business-consultants
UX is a broad field and designers are increasingly playing a strategic role in many companies. Be that designer.
Businesses are increasingly adopting user-centered approaches to create experiences, moving UX design to be one of the core activities driving the company strategy and operations.
This is an incredibly valuable opportunity that we designers can take to step up and contribute to create the great experiences and services they envision, taking our vision, tools and understanding to a different level. But we need to learn the new skills to play at this table, a table that's often speaking a different language with a lot of politics and different stakeholders.
The Sustainable Energy Floor (SEF) is a fully recyclable pedestrian floor system which can be used in pavements and high footfall areas, such as sport arenas, airports, railway stations, shopping malls, and office and apartment blocks. SEF enables people to generate their own energy to illuminate the space around them, or the energy can be used to power local systems such as street lights and signing systems.
Incorporated in March 2004, Sresta Natural Bioproducts (Sresta) is a leading organic produce company of India.
Among the organic food companies, Sresta is among the better funded, having raised several rounds of equity funding from 2 different VC funds – VentureEast and Peepul Capital. Together, the two funds own over 70% of equity of the company, and appear to have pumped in close to Rs 400m.
Powered by VC funding, Sresta has reported strong growth. In the 5 year period from 2010-15, it has grown from a revenue of Rs 101m to Rs 1135m, a CAGR of over 60%.
After mostly a disappointing trend of investments through the year, 2016 ended on a high, with reported VC/PE investments coming in at USD 2.4B. This boosted annual total for investment to USD 10.6B.
This was still 24% than the previous year, when USD 13.9B of investment was reported. Deal count for 2016 ended at 842, down 4% over the 881 deals counted in 2015.
Dec’16 total was boosted by a mega USD 1.6B investment by Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management in tower assets to Reliance Communications. This is the second billion dollar deal by Brookfield; it had purchased a portfolio of real estate assets from Mumbai’s Hiranandani Developers in Oct’16.
In fact, Canada’s funds seem to have gone big on India this year. Apart from Brookfield, Fairfax, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and CDPQ were active. Between then, these funds have contributed to almost 30% of PE investments reported in 2016.
Digital Workspaces and the Customer ExperienceeG Innovations
Customer experience is driving the digital age, and with the number of digital workers exploding the bar for assuring the digital user experience is quickly being raised — and not every enterprise is ready.
Fragmented monitoring approaches can make it all but impossible to connect the dots between complex, heterogeneous technical ecosystems, and the customer’s digital journey. The digital workspace can be a logical first step towards digital transformation but connecting the dots between ‘X-data’ (experience or XLA data) and ‘O-data’ (operational or SLA data) is not trivial.
In this webinar, John Worthington, Director of Customer Success at eG Innovations and an XLA Master, shows us:
-What role the Experience Level Agreement plays in the digital workspace
-The importance of unified, end-user-oriented views of digital workspace performance
-How converged APM/IPM can accelerate your customer experience journey
Why Microservices Are The New Innovation Enablers For EnterprisesEnabled
Innovative leaders & startups are moving to the new software paradigm with microservices architecture, allowing them to innovate faster.
- Win with software, or be eaten by it
- The power of customers = speed & agility ever more crucial
- Contrasting Enterprises vs. Startups in viewing IT
- How did the divide happen?
- Gartner predicted "death of ERP"
- Monoliths vs. the new software architecture
- How top-performing businesses innovate with Microservices
Full blog post at http://blog.enabled.com.au/microservices-innovation/
Accenture Technology Vision 2013: The Latest IT Trends and Innovations. Every business is now a digital business, and every executive needs to be able to understand the implications of technology trends and innovations for his or her company and industry. Without this insight, the company will not be well positioned to achieve high performance.
The Accenture Technology Vision 2013 identifies seven IT trends shaping technology—and thus business—into the future, making it required reading for everyone in the C-suite.
Building it infrastructure framework that drives innovation and business perf...GlobalStep
Whitepaper on Building IT infrastructure framework that drives innovation and business performance by GlobalStep.
The first trend is the buyer’s increased perception of IT Infrastructure service as a commodity which lowers perceived value and forces cost reductions. The second trend is that of increased complexity which is driven by disruptive technologies like cloud, virtualization and others along with innovative service models such as software-as-a-service and desktop-as-a-service.
The challenges of cost, complexity, and compliance are nearly overwhelming today's CIOs. Instead of devising business aligned IT programs, they are forced to concentrate on maintaining and managing a sloppy infrastructure. To tackle these challenges and to align with business goals, IT must shift its focus to become a business-centric line of business. From the large variety of our clients and our interaction with their IT Infrastructure leaders, we understand that they strongly believe that consistent innovation is their only means of meeting user expectations and rapidly evolving business demands within budgetary constraints. This innovation is not just about using a new technology but also about doing the same thing differently, which involves new way of interacting with the customers and vendors.
www.globalstep.com
Customize Transformation For A Personalized ExperienceLCDF
Shifting to a Customer-centric
Business Model :-
Many businesses already see the writing on the wall: Only 8 percent of companies
say their current business model will remain economically viable if their industry
keeps digitizing at its current course and speed.2 But to become a modern digital
business, you must go beyond just digitizing old business models and instead use
technology to align your people, processes, and technology around entirely new ways
of serving customers.
By placing the customer at the center of everything you do, you can create products,
services, and experiences that are more valuable to your buyer, allowing you to stand
out in an increasingly commoditized world, drive more profit, and generate more
brand loyalty.
Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create Impact in Communications, ...Cognizant
At the apex of innovation — with an emphasis on business outcomes and meaningful growth — exists not just one north-star discipline, but two: design and engineering. Long considered fundamentally separate entities, engineering and design have long led project plans and new ideas toward product development in their own streams; each approach with its many advocates. It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design
mindset.
Top 6 technologies SME manufacturers can't afford to ignoreIndex InfoTech
Manufacturers today are looking for innovative ways to differentiate themselves in the competitive global marketplace. Understanding customers’ needs in great detail is essential to positioning their company ahead of the competition.
One way to gain this understanding is to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. ERP solutions consolidate business operations enhancing your businesses ability to be agile. Not only do these systems deliver on technology that you can boast about over coffee with a colleague, the business advantages are the ability to streamline your organization’s processes to
reduce waste, improve throughput, and ultimately meet your customer’s value stream; improving odds for continued business in the future.
Innovative Insight Answers the Call - A Bolder Thinking Case StudyGoodData
Recognizing that their call center solution's benefits could extend way beyond operational and cost efficiencies, the Bolder Thinking team looked to give customers real-time access to analytics on call center performance, something no other provider was offering. They needed a tool that allowed them to empower the operators, supervisors, and call center managers to (1) get quick access to data, (2) to do ad hoc reporting on the fly themselves, and to (3) significantly reduce their time to insight.
Outcome Engineering 101: Five Guidelines to Delivering Products that Create I...Cognizant
It’s time to shift to an evolved, technology-empowered design mindset. As technology informs design, and good design arms technology to become most effective by engaging with users, the two now sit at the top of the product development pyramid to co-create success.
The Product Dev Conundrum: To Build or Buy in a Digital World?Aggregage
Any PM or technical leader who’s led the charge of building a digital product knows that product engineering is one of the most expensive elements of business. In most cases, actually building software should be the last avenue that companies explore to deliver great products, as software engineering, data science and product development are complex, uncertain and hard to manage.
Insights Success is a platform that focuses distinctively on emerging as well as leading IT companies, their confrontational style of doing business and way of delivering effective and collaborative solutions to strengthen market share.Our magazine talks about leaders and orators from the world of technology, which includes CEO’s, CIO’s, VP’s, Managers and other professionals who had set a benchmark in the revolution of IT industry.
IT Career Development - An Introduction into the IndustryLawal Adekunle
It is designed to help individuals with the knowledge and information they need in order to choose the perfect IT career. It also gives a clear insight into the industry
IT Career Development - An Introduction into the Industry
Wheelhouse Top Tech
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Wheelhouse Analytics Frank J. Coates
Founder and CEO
LLC Wheelhouse Analytics LLC
www.wheelhouseanalytics.com and www.isalesbag.com
200 N. High Street, Suite 202
West Chester, PA 19382
WHAT PRODUCTS AND/OR SERVICES DOES YOUR COMPANY PROVIDE? agendas can be shared ahead of time, goals set, ideas and decisions shared and
Our initiative at Wheelhouse is to eliminate conventional paradigms through follow-ups created and tracked in a collaborative application. Customer-focused
the development of intuitive, easy-to-use industry specific and global technology employees can create more effective presentations, perform more accurate analysis,
products. We’ve recently developed a first-of-its-kind iPad application that and share educational material through tablet devices. The key to success will be the
significantly enhances and standardizes the sales process. Its core capability drives development and adoption of business applications for tablets that leverage what
results and can be applied in any industry. SALESBAG™ is available as a standalone we’ve learned through consumer-oriented applications on these devices. Business
or enterprise application to allow salespeople to plan, present and follow up more owners should think about how this mounting technology can advance the way they
effectively and efficiently. Put simply, the result is that people will sell more and execute internally and connect with their customers.
spend more time on revenue-increasing activities than on paperwork.
HOW DOES THIS TECHNOLOGY DIFFER FROM WHAT CEOS CURRENTLY USE?
WHAT TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY ARE YOU NOTICING? Nearly all companies execute meetings the same way they did 50 years ago, with
Consumers are pushing technology on corporations versus the other way the exception of email invitations versus phone calls. Invitations go out, people
around. This is a sea-change for most IT departments. The extreme adoption rates meet, they talk, and then something (and often times nothing) happens. Managers
for smartphone and tablet technologies are not being matched by innovation at often question what was talked about, what was the goal, what were the follow-up
a vast majority of companies. Most big companies’ processes for innovation are tasks that came out of the meetings and were they executed on? Participants are
measured, planned and sluggish. Consumers, on the other hand, are demanding new frequently ignorant as to what the goal of the meeting was and what the follow up
applications and communication strategies through their devices now. Companies activities are. It’s hard to get back to the agenda and material discussed in the
that can meet the needs of the consumer’s technology demands will gain a distinct meetings, resulting in long and meandering email threads. We believe tablet devices
competitive advantage going forward. This environment is ripe for small companies and applications like ours will make it easier to hold more valuable meetings, in a
to emerge rapidly and compete with the larger but slower competitors. fraction of the time, with better results.
HOW HAS NEW TECHNOLOGY INFLUENCED YOUR INDUSTRY? HOW IS TECHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTING TO YOUR COMPANY’S COMPETITIVE
Many big companies are scrambling to make their web-based applications run on ADVANTAGE?
mobile devices. While this is necessary, it often ignores the fact that people will use We’re avid users of tablet and mobile technology. We’ve saved a great deal of
a mobile device much differently than a laptop or desktop computer connected to the money in printing and copying material for meetings and sales calls, and we can
web. Companies are struggling to define and measure how the use of mobile devices help our customers do the same – more than offsetting the cost of our applications.
is improving results. Most CEOs we talk to say that they’re in the dark when it comes Using tablet devices has enabled us to ensure that no customer-related task falls
to how mobile computing is changing the way they do business. On the other hand, a through the cracks, and as a result our customers see us as the most professional
few big companies are enabling employees and clients to work differently and more and efficient service provider. We get to spend more time with them and less time
effectively. We think that these companies are closer to their employees and clients, doing paperwork or taking notes. At the end of the day, adopting mobile technology
and will subsequently grow quicker than their counterparts who are focused on how has allowed us to be a resource of knowledge for our customers who are looking to do
their technologies should be deployed internally. the same.
WHAT UP-AND-COMING TECHNOLOGIES EXCITE YOU? WHAT LONG-TERM ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE ANOTHER CEO REGARDING
We’re excited, like everyone else, about the overwhelming prevalence of tablet TECHNOLOGY?
devices in both consumer and supplier hands. We believe that for the first time, I believe in three tenets of leveraging technology:
a device exists which will make it easier for people to present ideas while mobile. 1. Use technology to improve existing and proven processes. Technology often
The power and simplicity of these devices will enable even the “technologically cannot create processes that don’t exist, but can improve on those that do.
challenged” to be more productive. Consumers are flocking to these devices, which 2. Test your assumptions for using new technology. Run trials while investing
will push service companies to adopt better methods for connecting with consumers. small, and then invest big when a technology works.
3. Stay ahead of your internal and external customers. If you wait for your
HOW CAN THESE NEW TECHNOLOGIES HELP A BUSINESS OWNER? customers and employees to demand new technology, you will almost
We think business owners can leverage the power of mobile computing, certainly be losing customers and employees to competitors who already
specifically tablet devices, to expand efficiencies with both internal clients and have it.
external clients. Business meetings can be more efficient and productive when
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