1) A recent report developed through a collaborative effort between IBM and The MIT Sloan Management Reviews: IBM-MIT Analytics Study
2) An IBM CEO Study titled “Capitalizing on Complexity”: CEO Study
3) A report from IBM Business Value Institute on Meeting the Demands of the Smarter Consumer
4) A report by Babson Executive Education on Retail Analytics and emerging trends.
5) A report by Forrester discussing the ROI of Social Marketing.
6) A report by Forrester that evaluates Listening Platforms: The Forrester Wave Listening Platforms
7) A Mckinsey report on Big Data as the next frontier Mckinsey Big Data Detail
8) A very good report on social media measurement A Framework for Social Analytics
9) Retailers harness Mobility’s powerful potential. A report from the Retail Info Systems News. Mobile in Retail
10) A good report from Retail Info Systems News (RIS) on Business Analytics in the Retail Industry: Business Analytics in Retail
11) The 2012 IBM CEO Study provides more support for the move towards the Digital Enterprise: IBM CEO Study -2012
12) The 2011 IBM CMO Study points to the continued blurring of the lines between business and technology: IBM CMO Study
13) Businesses perform better when they have a marketing system of engagement across all channels: The State of Marketing – IBM
14) How Distributed Organism Businesses are Rising Against the Machine to Build a More Connected World: The Connected Company a perspective from Dave Gray
15) The Internet of Things (IoT) will reach a tipping point in 2013. A Research Report from Forrester provides a future outlook
16) Moving towards real time action and decision making: Fast Data Gets Real Time
17) The movement towards systems of engagement represents the next massive investment in Enterprise IT. Here are some very good videos and documents that describe this phenomena:
John McCarthy – The Perfect Storm of Innovation: Forrester
Geoffrey Moore – Innovate 2011: The future of Enterprise IT
Geoffrey Moore – Washington Innovation Summit
Geoffrey Moore – a Sea Change in Enterprise IT
Geoffrey Moore – Digital Impact
18) This report from the Mckinsey Global Institute focuses on the top 10 IT enabled trends for the decade ahead
19) This report from Mckinsey focuses on Disruptive technologies that will transform life, business and the global economy
20) Futurist Gerd Leonhard talks to combinatorial innovation using the business evolution anchor slide Exponential and Combinatorial
21) World Economic Forum Survey: Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Societal Impact
