Monday, December 11, 2017

The Full Monty: Track Changes — December 11, 2017


Traditional companies put innovation to work and the CIO's role is changing; women should lead A.I.; bots are stealing your Christmas presents; how autonomous vehicles will create jobs; Ford's trends to watch for 2018; why Bitcoin is rising; key takeaways from the CMO Spend Survey; how the New York Times is focused on growing its audiences; better personalization is needed in retail; social media has become weaponized; YouTube is raising its ad prices to account for something it should have been doing; Disney may be getting Fox assets; listen up: Apple is buying Shazam; how Microsoft Word caught someone in an editing lie; the C-suite needs to get comfortable with data; what David Rockefeller's Rolodex tells us about networking; and more in the Track Changes edition of The Full Monty from Brain+Trust Partners for the week of December 11, 2017.



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Top Stories

Silicon Valley gets all the hype when it comes to technology innovation and disruption. Yet the latest app, while entertaining and distracting, isn't necessarily what moves the world forward. Certainly, behemoths like Uber and Airbnb have made significant disruptive changes to the travel and hospitality industries — largely due to not owning any fleets or real estate. But the companies to watch are those that take technological developments and deploy them across their existing infrastructure, making massive and scalable changes that result in innovation, collaboration, and even new business models. Risk-taking executives recognize that the status quo is not forever and understand that sometimes disruption happens from within.




Artificial Intelligence / Autonomous

The latest in AI, machine learning, bots, and blockchain, mobility, and autonomous everything.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / MACHINE LEARNING

    AUTONOMOUS / MOBILITY


    BLOCKCHAIN / BITCOIN




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    Communications / Marketing / Business Strategy

    Industry developments and trends, including advertising & marketing, journalism, customer experience, content, and influencer relations.

    STRATEGY / MARKETING / CONTENT

    JOURNALISM / COMMUNICATIONS 




    Retail Apocalypse

    Humans are a transactional species, and the practice — if not the very notion of what retail is  is undergoing a historical metamorphosis. 




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    Platforms 

    News to know about relevant social, virtual, and augmented reality platforms that may affect your business.

    TWITTER / PERISCOPE

    FACEBOOK / INSTAGRAM / WHATSAPP

    • Facebook is offering free music and sound effects for video creators. Obviously in a self-serving attempt to generate more video creation.
    • Instagram is testing Direct, a messaging app, and may remove DMs from the main app. The Facebook family seems to be diversifying within its apps; different audiences may prefer different functionalities. The company will be able to test and determine which app requires particular features.

    ALPHABET / GOOGLE




      Media

      The latest in the world of streaming video, audio, and the advertising, pricing and bundling models related to them.

      VIDEO

      AUDIO

      • Apple is reportedly buying Shazam for $400 millionWhy would Apple want Shazam? Possibly to improve music search to compete with Spotify. Or perhaps to have better voice/sound integration to make music predictions for you.
      • YouTube will introduce a paid, on-demand streaming music service in March; Warner has signed on, talks continue with Sony, Universal, and Merlin.
      • Program of the Week: And as our recommendation this week, we have Unthinkable. Host Jay Acunzo explores how some ideas become rules and meets the people who dare to question them — not by using some "best practice," but by trusting their intuition. Do you have a program to recommend? Add yours to our Google Sheet:  smonty.co/yourpodcasts.  



      Regulatory / Security 

      Business disruptions in the legal, regulatory, and computer security fields, from hacking to the on-demand economy and more.

      SECURITY / HACKING

        ON-DEMAND ECONOMY




        Measurement / Analytics / Data

        The future is not in plastics, but in data. Those who know how to measure and analyze it will rule the world.



        Mental Nourishment

        Other links to help you reflect, improve, or simply learn something new.




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