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R "Ray" Wang        

Founder of Constellation Research, AI Expert, Author

R “Ray” Wang is the Founder, Chairman and Principal Analyst of Silicon Valley-based Constellation Research Inc., a research and advisory firm which studies disruptive business and exponential technology trends. He is recognized as a leading authority on artificial intelligence (AI) and AI policy.

Ray co-hosts and co-founded "DisrupTV," a weekly enterprise tech and leadership webcast that averages 50,000 views per episode. He also authors the well-followed blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View,” which receives millions of page views per month. Additionally, Wang serves as an advisor to the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and is a non-resident Senior Fellow at The Atlantic Council's GeoTech Center.

Since 2003, Ray has delivered thousands of keynotes worldwide, speaking at major tech conferences including Salesforce’s Dreamforce, Adobe Summit, and IBM Think, among others. His recent publications include the best-selling book "Disrupting Digital Business," published by Harvard Business Review Press in 2015, and "Everybody Wants to Rule The World," released by Harper Collins Leadership in July 2021. This latest book examines the rise of digital giants and their influence on market dynamics, including IPOs and the shift towards duopoly markets.

In his career, Wang has held executive roles at notable organizations such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is frequently quoted and interviewed in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Bloomberg, and is widely acknowledged for his insights and expertise in the tech industry. Ray travels extensively, being a 4 million miler flyer with United Airlines, reflecting his global engagement and commitment to sharing knowledge across continents.

Speech Topics

Rethinking Your Business to Compete in the Age of New Monopolies

• It’s More Than a Turnaround; It’s a Rethinking of Your Business • Why Now is a Window of Opportunity to Pursue Bold Change • Five Pillars of Growth and Change Ideal audiences for this talk are legacy business leaders and private equity.

Regulation in the Age of Digital Giants: The New Way to Balance Free Markets and Consumer Innovation

• Secure the Critical Infrastructure and Digital Building Blocks for Public Good • Advocate the Global Recognition of Personal Data as a Human Right • Encourage Entrepreneurship with Start-Up Friendly Policies Ideal audiences for this talk are policymakers and business schools.

Competing in the Age of Extreme Capitalism & Formidable Monopolies

• How Organizations Can Partner with Others to Become Digital Giants • How to Craft a Joint Venture (The Right Way) • 11 Best Practices for Joint Ventures • Three Models to Galvanize Joint Venture Startups Ideal audiences for this talk are Global 2000 CXO’s, System Integrators, VCs & PEs.

Should You Invest in Digital Giants?: All-Big Tech Stocks Are Not Created Equal

• Big Tech Stocks Dominate the Growth Story: trillion-dollar market cap trades in Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft and FAANG stocks like Facebook and Netflix.
• Investors Rushed Into the Tech Space: not all tech stocks are created equal. • Identify the New Digital Giants and Evaluate How They Will Fare in Both the IPO Market and the Post-IPO Climate.
• The five elements of Digital Giants & Why the World is Moving to Markets with two monopolies per industry (duopolies) Ideal audiences for this talk are investors, private equity, and family offices.

Entrepreneurship in the age of Extreme Capitalism and Formidable Monopolies

• How to Build a Data-Driven Digital Network to Compete in the Age of New Monopolies • Four Elements of the DDDN Business Model • Six Monetization Strategies for DDDN Ideal audiences for this talk are startups and business schools.

News

HBR: The Four Personas of the Next Gen CIO
Five years ago, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) were on top of the world. These executives played mission-critical roles in driving multi-million dollar projects that delivered massive change. However, a global recession and the inability of CIOs to deliver on business value have tarnished their status. Today’s CIOs are under pressure to deliver on requests for innovation, cost reduction, connectivity, and a growing demand for business intelligence.
HBR: Making the Leap From Consumer Tech to Enterprise Class
What's required for the leap to Consumer Tech? What I learned from SXSW in 2011
HBR: Coming To Terms With Consumerizaiton Of IT
The corporate e-mail server is down, but work doesn’t grind to a halt. Everybody just switches to Gmail, Skype, or BB Chat to get around the inconvenience. For the most part, they’re using these consumer technologies at work already — often because they’re better than anything the IT department can provide.
HBR: Moving from Transaction to Engagement
Mobile enterprise, social business, cloud computing, advanced analytics, and unified communications are converging. Armed with the art of the possible, innovators are seeking to apply disruptive consumer technologies to enterprise class uses — call it the consumerization of IT in the enterprise. The likely results include new methods of furthering relationships, crafting longer term engagement, and creating transformational business models. It’s part of a shift from transactional systems to engagement systems.
HBR: How to Engage Your Customers And Employee
Most customers now ignore targeted marketing campaigns, avoid responding to offers, and provide minimal feedback when asked. Instead, potential customers interact with each other, bypassing sanitized corporate messages devoid of meaning or value.
HBR: Beware Trading Privacy for Convenience
We pay for things with the swipe of a finger. We ask Siri how to get to a restaurant. Our friends can track exactly when we’ll show up. We can monitor our heart rates and calories burned — and compare our results with friends and strangers. We’re in the early days of a digital, mobile transformation. The benefits can seem limitless. And as a society, we are already becoming accustomed to the convenience, the connectivity, and the new insights that surface.
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HBR: The Building Blocks of Successful Corporate IT
The job of Chief Information Officer has never exactly been easy. But massive disruptions in business models, technology, and the work force have been throwing up massive new challenges for CIOs and other technology leaders.
HBR: To Jumpstart Growth, Flip the Company's Priorities
The punishing forces of quarter-to-quarter performance expectations have forced business leaders to scramble for short-term profit gains at the long-term expense of the organization. Because of those short-term bets and strategic pivots, organizations are struggling to meet ever-changing customer needs, are challenged to drive margins, and find themselves vulnerable to non-traditional competitors and unattractive to potential employees. This confluence of forces has led 52% of the Fortune 500 to be acquired, merged, go bankrupt, or fall off the list since 2000.
HBR: What a Visit to an AI-Enabled Hospital Might Look Like
The combination of machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing, and cognitive computing will soon change the ways that we interact with our environments. AI-driven smart services will sense what we’re doing, know what our preferences are from our past behavior, and subtly guide us through our daily lives in ways that will feel truly seamless.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW IDEA CAST: Making Sense of Digital Disruption
Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast from Harvard Business Review. I’m Sarah Green. Today I’m talking with Ray Wang, author of the new book, Disrupting Digital Business: Create an Authentic Experience in the Peer-to-Peer Economy. Ray, thank you so much for talking with us today.
Workday gives IBM big win with seven-year cloud deal | TechCrunch
... with IBM for this aspect of its business, which could lead to additional business, reasons R Ray Wang, founder and principal analyst at Constellation Research ...
Trading Identity for Convenience – What Would You Give Up ...
At next month's Cloud Identity Summit 2013, Principal Analyst and CEO of Constellation Research R “Ray” Wang will discuss how evolvi.
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