Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler: Behind the Cloud
SaaS model By igniting the SaaS industry and then offering its Platform-as-a-Service, salesforce.com has spawned an ecosystem of countless new companies. It... Read More
Nigel Vaz: Digital business transformation
Digital moat A “digital moat” is the sum of the capabilities you put in place to create value and be competitive in... Read More
Stephen Few: Show Me the Numbers; Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten
Purpose of visual display of information Today everybody can produce reports of quantitative business information in the form of tables and graphs.... Read More
Russell Brand, Hong Nguyen-Phuong, Kimberly Wiefling, Mitchell Levy: Turning Ideas into Impact; Insight from 16 Silicon Valley Consultants
Consulting services There are a few small, simple, but vitally important secrets to getting customers for a consulting business. Secret 1: Start... Read More
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic: Storytelling with data; A data visualization guide for business professionals
There are six elements that are important for good storytelling: Understand the context Choose an appropriate visual display Eliminate clutter Focus attention... Read More
Robin Lewis, Michael Dart: The New Rules of Retail; Competing in the World’s Toughtest Marketplace
We are in living in the age where value is understood differently. This is driving transformation of the retail, wholesale and manufacturing.... Read More
Nick Hobbie: Data for Executives; How to influence stakeholders and achieve success
Data presentation is a combination of three things: Data analytics: includes gather, clean and prepare data. Creative design: can be broken into... Read More
David L. Rogers: The Digital Transformation Playbook (Columbia Business School Publishing
Digital transformation is not about technology — it is about strategy and new ways of thinking. The Five Domains of Digital Transformation:... Read More
Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris: Competing on Analytics; The New Science of Winning
Why do analytics Netflix is one of analytical competitor. Its CEO Reed Hastings has a master’s in computer science from Stanford. They... Read More