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Tweet Email Resisting Change – The Fast Track Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others. Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters , a national corporate consulting company that trains groups to boost team productivity in the workplace. She identifies six types of change resisters that we must battle in order to move forward with our important initiatives. 1. The “Positive” […]
SiSense , a business intelligence startup that is among those making big data analytics accessible to ordinary business users (and not just data scientists) is today announcing more funding: a $30 million Series C round led by DFJ Growth — the VC’s arm dedicated to later-stage investments that recently announced a new fund we understand to be totalling over $500 million (in May, its size was ‘only’ $470 million). Others backing the startup include existing investors Battery Ventures, […]
Tweet Email Resisting Change – The Fast Track Change is essential and inevitable for all organizations, but some people are better at coping with it than others. Dana Brownlee is the founder of Professionalism Matters , a national corporate consulting company that trains groups to boost team productivity in the workplace. She identifies six types of change resisters that we must battle in order to move forward with our important initiatives. 1. The “Positive” […]
Daikin also uses a power meter that monitors the supply coming into the unit. Via the gateway, it sends data about the power signal to an Intel cloud, where it’s analyzed to determine the power usage of each component inside the HVAC system, like fans and refrigerant compressors. Without the back-end analytics, Daikin would have to install meters on each component, an implementation that would be prohibitively expensive, Facinelli says. Daikin’s commercial Rebel cooling […]
Don DeLoach: The way the metadata layer is established is tantamount to indexing everything. So the maneuverability over the data especially for things like ad hoc queries and investigative analytics is very strong. That’s all done without the benefit or requirement of a database administrator. This typically is a low hardware requirement, a very low human capital requirement, and a very easy-to-use platform in terms of the accessibility and the maneuverability across that data. […]
Dr BJ Fogg has been in the behaviour-changing game for more than 15 years. He shows how the latest technology is providing tools that can influence how people Can computers be designed to change people’s beliefs and behaviours? It was this question that brought me to Stanford in 1993 as a doctoral student. I admit that at first some people thought me a bit crazy: at the time, computers were used mostly for crunching numbers […]
Stanford University Dr. BJ Fogg founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, where he directs research and design. In addition, he devotes at least half his time to industry projects and innovations, all of which focus on using technology to change behaviors in positive ways. BJ is the author of Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do. He is the co-editor of Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future […]
innovator :: social scientist :: teacher bjfogg@stanford.edu Like many people, I get tons of email. Ugh. I’ll try to respond to yours . . . phone: (707) 479-4552 I usually don’t answer calls from unrecognized phone numbers. If you want an appointment, click the tab above that says “Book time w/ me”– or the orange button below. I’m happy to talk. P.O. Box 20456 Stanford, CA 94309 Here’s my latest on Twitter: My expertise […]
When does productivity take a back seat to innovation? Does being hyper-focused on productivity actually slow down innovation efforts? In my last blog on productivity and innovation, I described how productivity — much like innovation — cannot be effectively optimized without proper planning. But how much planning is too much? In the quest for innovation, should we abandon the strict confines of productivity to the back seat? Risk and Reward Peter Drucker suggests that strategic innovators […]
More connected consumers, automated processes, and sophisticated analytics place unprecedented demands on IT functions. Many companies are struggling to cope, and they seek to deliver on new demands by adding piecemeal elements to their existing operations. Yet what’s really required is the reinvention of IT entirely, which can help incumbents compete against digital attackers and even create a new strategic advantage. This is easier said than done. Reinventing the IT function requires far-reaching changes, […]