Decoding Digital Dominance: Ray Wang on Thriving Among Digital Giants

What does it take to compete against digital giants? The Founder, Chairman, Principal Analyst, and CEO of Constellation Research Inc., Ray Wang, joins this episode to reveal the key takeaways from his latest book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants. Ray discusses the current landscape of digital transformation, what the challenges are, and how to follow in the footsteps of today’s digital giants.

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The Need for “Digital Artisans”

“The last piece is the digital artisans. They blend the right brain left brain pieces that are out there. They understand that hard science is important, but you also have to understand the humanities and your role in playing out what the implications of that change is going to be, not only just on your employees, but also your other stakeholders.”

Building the Business Graph

“The business graph is like the social graph, the social graph in social networks that tells you, 'hey, this person's connected. This person here, their actions, there's what they're going to do.' The business graph is a stakeholder, a customer employee, a supplier, or a partner. And how do I connect that stakeholder to an action with an object? And what do we learn about those patterns? And that becomes the competitive mode.”

Creative Acceleration

“Creative acceleration actually happens with a common set of ideas, the density of ideas and the random collisions that occur. That's kind of how this technology innovation has been built. It's just these networks of networks that get passed on.”