Significant Shift in the Innovation Consulting World?
It always catches you by surprise when one of the leading players within the innovation space makes a change. In this case, Innosight has been acquired by Huron, a…
How to Tell If Innovation Matters to Your CEO
The new article Unleashing the power of Innovation was recently published and surveyed approximately 250 senior executives about innovation. While interesting, there’s not a lot “new” in the survey, and…
Smart city projects have CIOs on the hunt for new business models
Beyond the pilot Jennifer Belissent Smart city pilot projects provide an opportunity for city CIOs to give the new technology a test drive and pin down the ROI, if one…
How 5G wireless technology will dazzle, confuse and be of use for CIOs
No 5G standard, mass adoption ‘years away’ For starters, while work on 5G has been going on since at least 2012, there currently is no standard for 5G deployments, and the industry…
4 Steps to Getting the Most Out of Consultants
There are many benefits to hiring an external consultant across almost any vertical — be it sales, marketing, programming or business strategy, bringing in specialists can be an important step in overcoming…
Storytelling for Product Management and Innovation
Who doesn’t love a good story? Apparently, most of us do as they are the heart of any effective marketing message. A good example is the iPhone television…
Disrupting 21st Century Corporate Learning
Having been in the corporate learning and development space now for more than 25 years, it’s been really useful to invest time immersing myself in researching recent developments and…
Agility, Databases Support Digital Transformation
Databases are vital to digital transformation, according to a new survey from NuoDB, “Benchmarking Strategic Technology Initiatives with Software Companies,” and agility is also essential. As the software industry transitions…
How to Avoid Big Data Mistakes
If data is important to your company, then creating a data governance program is as essential to the business as an accounting program. Looking for a way to keep your…
5 Ways to Grow Your Business in 2017
1. Create a content strategy with one bullet point. In the article, How Donald Trump and Science Can Help Your Content Convert More Leads and Sales, I discuss and explain that…
Customers Or Investors: Who Do You Love More?
Every founder has a daily struggle on how to allocate his or her time. Is this you? We can work on developing our product or fine-tuning that Facebook campaign. We…
Change Management and the Structure of Innovation
Often innovation is cast in the minds as a pure product related process. Apple’s iPod to iPhone to iPad, for example, is, perhaps, a perfect reflection of how most…
Why Augmented Reality Will Be the Next Revolution in Retail
In the summer of 2016, pedestrians on New York’s Fifth Avenue encountered crowds of (mostly young) people, hastily running into Central Park, smartphones in hand, shouting out Pokémon names…
4 Tips for Expanding Your Business Globally
The dream of every small business is to grow beyond your own shores, but it comes with many challenges. Not only will you face language barriers and time differences, but your…
The 4 Biggest Challenges Of Running A Values-Based Company
What are the challenges of running a values-based company? All values flow from the top. Whether intentional or not, the beat everyone marches to comes from the person with absolute…
The Real Secret To Constant Innovation Momentum For Your Business
There is no putting your head down while swimming in the constant changing tides of business innovation. That moment you put your head down to zero in on growing what you’ve…
6 Tangible Steps to Launch an MVP Product
Ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs refer to this phenomenon as analysis paralysis, an affliction all founders…
How Google Innovates
What makes Google (now officially known as Alphabet) different from Apple, IBM and Facebook innovations is that it doesn’t rely on any one strategy, but deploys a number of them…
IT priorities 2017: A mix of forward-looking and traditional tech
Planning for 2017 Regardless of where IT professionals are currently devoting their time and efforts, most shops have a slate of new initiatives planned for 2017, mingling forward-looking technologies with…
Top 10 Must Have Self-Service BI Governance Capabilities
If self-service business intelligence initiatives are on your agenda, follow these 10 best practices for ensuring proper governance. Although self-service BI solutions have come a long way and…