November, 2012

deal architect

article thumbnail

The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of

deal architect

Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with A $ 140 billion services backlog. A relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts Deep vertical knowledge in oil and.

Vertical 308
article thumbnail

The art of storytelling

deal architect

Abe Lincoln inspires a whole range of emotions in people. One aspect of his life I was not very familiar with till I saw the Spielberg movie was his endless stream of stories and his wicked sense of humor even.

299
299
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

East Coast Offense

deal architect

In Walter Isaacson?s biography of Steve Jobs, Isaacson describes the time that Jobs cold called Wendell Weeks, the CEO of Corning, Inc., to learn about Gorilla Glass (which is now used in more than 500 devices). Weeks? assistant refused to.

Global 286
article thumbnail

The Big Data laggards

deal architect

In a panel on Big Data last week at Cognizant Community I cited several examples from the New Florence blog collected over the last few years – National Hurricane Center, Union Pacific, U of Washington’s ENCODE project, Social Media analytics.

article thumbnail

The end of vaporware

deal architect

It was a striking sight. It was end of day in last week’s Technology Summit after Workday had showed us countless demos of new functionality, when under non-disclosure they announced plans to develop a Recruiting module.

article thumbnail

Quantification in consumer world, disarray in enterprise world

deal architect

I was reading this weekend the editorial by Corey Powell in the latest issue of Discover magazine We live in an increasingly- quantified world. People know about movie grosses and YouTube views. They know exactly how many friends they have.

268
268
article thumbnail

Workday: The Locker Room at Half-Time

deal architect

A few weeks ago, I wrote it is “Halftime in Enterprise Technology” Workday invited a group of analysts and bloggers to their annual Technology Summit, this year in conjunction with their user event, Rising. To me, the opportunity to mingle.