Note: For mobile users, please subscribe to my new feed here and unsubscribe from the old Feedburner feed. Ever have one of those conversations with someone you care about where you’re left feeling inspired and motivated? They’re rare occurrences in my life. I can count on one hand how many people I’m lucky to know who leave me feeling this way. One recent conversation was withĀ Jim Marous, Publisher at The Financial Brand. If you’d like to listen to that conversation,…
Silicon Angle Interview With Brian Solis Focuses On Customer Expectations and the Increasing Importance of Experience to the Design Process
Solis is featured in a SiliconANGLE article by Betsy Amy-Vogt titled āDesigning for the accidental narcissist: Focus on experience is driver for Gen C innovation.ā The article is based on a podcast interview of Solis by Jeff Frick, host of theCUB, SiliconANGLE Mediaās mobile livestreaming studio, during the Comcast CX Innovation Day event in Sunnyvale, CA. She begins her article by writing: āExperience is what counts. An incoming wave of connected consumers ā known as Generation C ā are not…
Singularity University Features New Articles by Brian Solis on the SU Blog
Singularity University is now featuring articles on its SU Blog by Brian Solis. His contributions will focus on exponential innovation, business transformation and digital anthropology. His first three articles include: 5 Laws of Resilient Innovation Ideas are Denied by the Dozen: Why We Need to Celebrate Ideas, Ideation, and Innovation to Succeed Selfie-Aspiration: Social Engineering Is Changing our Biology and our Norms and Values
How I Help Business Audiences Embrace Innovation, Disruption and Change to Lead the Way Forward
We live in an era of #DigitalDarwinism. These are disruptive times and they challenge everyoneā¦leaders and executives…employees, customers, and partnersā¦and, you and me. AI, Crypto, Quantum Computing, Blockchain, AR/VR, facial recognition, wearables, IoT/IIoT, 5G, automation and 20 other disruptive technologies will only continue to change everything as we know it. Digital transformation, innovation, and new leadership are needed to survive and thrive. The future either happens to us or because of us. I’ve spent my entire career as a digital…
Riding the Next Wave of Digitally Driven Innovation
The cloud is a key enabler of business transformation. IT leaders, business executives and digital transformation architects are migrating to the cloud to modernize operations enterprise-wide. I was invited by IDG/CIO and Microsoft Azure to share my views on cloud-driven digital transformation across private and public-sector institutions. Some of the topics we discussed include: Big data/analytics ā how companies can turn data into insights and revenue growth using the cloud, analytics and other tools Workplace transformation ā how technology is…
Humanizing CX: Shifting from Customer Experience to the Customer’s Experience
Customer experience is powerful because it consists of two important ingredients, 1) people and 2) emotions. When we talk about CX as a matter of purpose and strategy, this is exactly where the phrases “put customers at the center of our business” and becoming “customer-centric” can and should come to life. But honestly, we don’t really design for people or emotions today. We design for what we think of as customer intent and in turn, invest in touchpoints, conversions, transactions…
Can AI Save the Retail Industry?
Over the years, I’ve studied retail innovation and also retail stagnation. Among the white hot trends propelling retail startups and giving legacy brands hope are artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, Internet of Things (IoT), connected sensors and good old fashioned ingenuity. My friend Macy Bayern of TechRepublic recently wrote about the role AI is specifically playing in retail innovation. Her resulting article features insights from industry experts and innovators. I also wanted to share our unabridged conversation with you here……
Singularity University Invites Brian Solis to Share His Thoughts on Why We Need to Celebrate Ideas, Ideation and Innovation
In an article by Solis on the Singularity University site called āIdeas are Denied by the Dozen: Why We Need To Celebrate Ideas, Ideation and Innovation to Succeed,ā he discusses the unfortunate mindset of incrementalism that gets in the way of truly moving forward towards using new business models. He starts with a scenario that begins, āI tried to be innovative, but I got stuck in meetings all day. I tried to think creatively, but I had to catch up…
The Digital Transformation People Features Link to Brian Solisā āA Prelude To Innovationā
Solis is listed as a key contributor on The Digital Transformation Peopleās News In Digital under the heading of Strategy & Innovation. The pull quote from his linked article āA Prelude To Innovationā is āIf innovation is the key to future-proofing and more effectively competing for the future, why is it that many organizations get caught up in a pattern of incrementalism?ā The article itself appears on the Singular University Website. Itās subhead is: Ideas are Denied by the Dozen:…
Legacy Models Shackle Digital Transformation and Strangle Innovation
Digital transformation has certainly achieved buzzword status. Yet, by its very nature, digital transformation can be among the most important catalysts for business modernization and innovation. The difference between where we are and where we need to be is separated by purpose and vision. If we can see and work beyond the “digital” in digital transformation, we can model the business of the future today. That’s the hard part. In the early phases of “The Six Stages of Digital Transformation,”…
