I'll be speaking with former Amazon Chief Scientist Andreas Weigend at 11:30 today. We'll be talking about how people are at the heart of the enterprise — authenticity and transparency are key to powerful relationships with customers, employees and partners.

Value creation through customer strategy and collaboration pays huge dividends —  Amazon and other consumer vendors have led the way in this area, and there are huge benefits to applying these data strategies both internally and externally in the enterprise.