... one of the things that will distinguish businesses into this next decade is ... how they use information.... I think it'll change culture, it'll change everything that you do. And I believe it'll differentiate the winners and the losers.
I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.
Much of the real computer talent today is concentrated in the private sector.
Digital Globe is, I think, a really great company. And it's had its virtual monopoly in the area where it is.
Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
We're thrilled that our partnership with Adobe has now grown to span our three clouds - Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365 - providing customers with the powerful integrations they need to navigate digital transformation.
Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.
Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.
The ultimate competitive advantage is being cognitive.
'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.
I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.
Fortunately, in Piramal Enterprises, we are in three broad sectors. One is in the whole financial services sector, the second is in pharmaceuticals, and the third is in healthcare analytics and data.
Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.
When I look at the next set of technologies that we have to build in Salesforce, it's all data-science-based technology. We don't need more cloud. We don't need more mobile. We don't need more social. We need more data science.
Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.
You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.
Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.
We have in-depth knowledge about Chinese industries. We know what's driving the country's economic growth.
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.
