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TechnoPolitics Podcast: Digital Disruptors Will Sink Your Company If You Don't Become One Yourself

Posted by Mike Gualtieri on February 20, 2013

Digital disruptors will sink your company...

...if you don’t become one yourself. So says James McQuivey, author of Forrester’s new book Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation (available everywhere February 26, 2013). You always knew digital was going to upend things. In every industry, digital disruptors are taking advantage of new platforms, tools, and innovation to undercut competitors, ingratiate customers, and disrupt the usual ways of doing business. There have always been winners and losers when disruption hits, but digital disruption hits harder and runs deeper than anyone would have guessed.

Digital Disruption is a book about how to innovate with a digital twist — a must-read for anyone who wants to be a digital winner. 

In this episode, TechnoPolitics sits down with Digital Disruption author James McQuivey to:

  • Learn what digital disruption is and how it affects every industry (even cement companies).
  • Understand the mindset of digital disruptors.
  • Find out how your firm can fend off digital disruptors by becoming one itself.
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TechnoPolitics Podcast: Hey CIO, Here Is Your Hybrid Cloud Wake-Up Call

Posted by Mike Gualtieri on February 10, 2013

James Staten, Forrester TechnoPoliticsHybrid clouds are especially subject to the law of unintended consequences, says Forrester’s cloud expert James Staten. Many IT organizations don’t even acknowledge that they have a hybrid cloud. The reality: If enterprises are using public cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) and/or deploying any custom applications in the public cloud, then by definition they have a hybrid cloud, because it almost always connects to the back end.

In this episode of TechnoPolitics, James implores CIOs and IT professionals to get serious about hybrid cloud now to avoid spaghetti clouds in the future.

Podcast: Here Is Your Hybrid Cloud Wake-Up Call

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TechnoPolitics Podcast: Microsoft Office 365 Versus Google Apps — How To Decide

Posted by Mike Gualtieri on February 1, 2013

Enterprises have a choice when it comes to employee productivity and collaboration apps (email, documents, spreadsheets, presentation, video conference, etc) in the cloud: Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps. Deciding which solution is best for your business is not easy, because it is not an apples-to-apples comparision of apps and features. It’s more like a fruit basket containing some apples, some pears, and a few exotic fruits. Not to worry — Forrester’s expert on collaboration software, TJ Keitt, is here to help.

In this episode of TechnoPolitics, TJ helps you decide by offering deep insights on:

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