3 Steps to Designing a Killer Customer Experience
You see it all the time. A company has an amazing product and for some reason cannot market it properly to consumers, even though the product itself if extremely innovative,…
To Adapt, We Need To Evolve
When scientists decoded the human genome in 2001, they found something astounding. While our DNA provides the blueprint for everything about us—from how we develop in the womb to eye…
How to Protect Breakthrough Innovation
A company’s portfolio can generally be segmented into three types of innovation: incremental, adjacent, and breakthrough. Incremental innovations are minor improvements to existing products or small steps in to…
The 17 Rules These Entrepreneurs Say You Should Break in 2017
“Break the rule of perfection and focus on progress instead. When you obsess over every misstep or criticism, you become your own roadblock to growth.” — Ariel Kaye, founder and CEO,…
10 Executives Reveal the Biggest Money Mistakes Enterprises Make
Articles about finance abound; and most of them contain a wealth of wisdom. Unfortunately, though, few deal honestly with money mistakes businesses make at the enterprise level. And, ironically, that’s exactly where…
Measuring the Performance of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture teams often struggle with measuring and communicating the value of their function. We have implemented a set of simple and straight-forward performance indicators to address this problem. Do…
11 Important Things That Should Be on Every CEO’s Wish List
What does every new founder need? Dear Genie in a Bottle, I’m going to start a new company. Yes, Genie. I know I’m crazy. And, I know I only get…
International Institute for Analytics’ five analytics predictions
Prediction #1 Organizations will increase classification of cognitive tools across uses Tom Davenport Artificial intelligence technologies are not monolithic, Davenport said. IBM Watson, for example, is often thought of as…
Learn how to sustain innovation from social movements
Knowing your purpose Now let’s look again at businesses. The goal of most businesses is to solve a problem for a profit. Employees don’t work, create or innovate for you…
Decentralized IT Can Cause Duplication of Spending
The ongoing decentralization of IT management—fueled by increasingly empowered business departments that are holding tenure of some tech areas—is putting a aria on CIOs and their teams, according to a…
4 Ways Data-First Competitors Are Killing You
Data is the new oil. Those that figure out how to use it more effectively than their competitors are realizing significant, strategic benefits. But what’s so unique about data-first companies?…
Business Transformation: Go Digital Or Go Home
The evidence is clear, digital transformation is the biggest driver in business today. Businesses that don’t embrace the journey will be left behind by competitors and customers. Great customer…
This is the Biggest Reason to Put More Emphasis on Content Quality Over Quantity
For anyone working in digital marketing or online media, there’s a debate as old as the internet itself: content quality vs. quantity. With only a few exceptions, there’s a consensus…
Supplying The Supply Chain
The supply chain is changing rapidly, often outside of the traditional IT structure. IT needs to get involved, bringing its skills and experience to the table. Digital is transforming…
6 Innovation Tool Kits to Drive Business Growth
This article is based on the book, The Invisible Advantage Promoting a culture of innovation focused on business growth starts with providing practical tools that give anyone the opportunity to…
If You Want To Innovate, Don’t Wait For a Eureka Moment
Much has been made about the difference between innovation and invention. One writer went so far as to argue that Steve Jobs’s development of the iPod wasn’t an innovation because…
Here Are the Top Entrepreneurship Trends for 2017
With this tumultuous year behind us, I’m fixing my mind on what’s to come in 2017. Change is the only constant in life, and with a new administration about to…
5 Business Trends That Will Take Off in 2017
Last year, 2016, is in our rearview mirror, so it’s time to look to the trends in 2017 that will change how we do business: For instance, in my travels…
5 Tips for Dealing With Explosive Growth
Growth is a great thing for businesses, but sometimes it can move too quickly for founders to keep up. This increase can occur unexpectedly when marketing is more effective than…
Transitioning to a DevOps environment? Don’t make these four mistakes
Mistake 2: Ignoring timelines There’s no denying that the traditional waterfall method, where work is more siloed, has an orderliness to it, said James Stanger, senior director of products at…