3 Ways to Redesign Your Product and Spark a Price Revolution
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. With price-simplifying, price is the strategy. Everything else is tactics — the means to arrive at the target…
What DevOps Can Teach IT About Change Management
Even if your shop hasn’t embraced DevOps and has no plans to do so, the practice offers leadership and communication guidance applicable to nearly every facet of IT. Here’s…
A Tale of Two Cities
Consider this story of two U.S. metropolises. On the one hand, there’s Detroit: a sad sack of the industrial Midwest, a few years removed from bankruptcy, hollowed out and struggling…
Samsung’s $8 Billion Harman Deal Drives New Era For IT Pros
As connected cars become more commonplace, IT professionals need to consider how employees are using these software-platforms-on-wheels to access and share work-related information. Samsung’s announcement that it would acquire…
5 Reasons You Should Let Others Make Your Decisions
Have you ever sat, staring at a blank email, trying to figure out what to say and how to say it? Have you rehearsed a conversation over and over in…
Innovation Mantras from R&D
by Chad McAllister Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an RD person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who…
Multi-Target Look at Social Media and Open Innovation
Given social media’s incredible reach and the potential for new and even more amazing platforms to quickly evolve, companies must begin to figure out how to leverage this tremendous power.…
The New Game of Global Tech
What’s going on in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry? Companies that used to thrive with clearly defined product portfolios are entering one another’s businesses. Erstwhile hardware companies…
4 Ways to Help Your Team Weather the Startup Storm
You’ve heard it many times before – “Startups are hard.” There are numerous ups and downs along the path. Customer wins and customer losses are just part of the game.…
Innovation mantras from R&D
Research and development is tightly coupled with product management and innovation. To learn how an RD person thinks about innovation, I talked with Dana A. Oliver, who has 30…
The Benefits of Buying a ‘Boring’ Businesses Instead of Seeking the Next Big Thing
Every day the headlines are filled with stories about the gold rush to find the hottest new startup. Ambitious young companies vying to be the next Uber or Facebook fill…
101 Efficiency Hacks for Busy Entrepreneurs
Sometimes, it just seems like we have far more tasks on our to-do lists than we can reasonably accomplish. That’s why I’ve compiled this giant list of “efficiency hacks” busy…
Innovation Mandates from the Trump Administration
Transitions between presidential administrations, whether within party or across parties, bring significant disruption to the Federal government, but can also create opportunities. New administrations bring changing policies, priorities, and leadership,…
Innovation Needs a Home
Innovation Needs a Home An innovation program needs a home. Many believe it should be as close to the business units or revenue source as possible. While occasionally this…
4 Reasons Why Immigrants Are Essential for Entrepreneurship
There are more entrepreneurs in the United States than ever before. And many of them are immigrants, whose proportion of the U.S. population is the highest in history. According to…
How to Outsmart a Control Freak
We all know one. That insufferable person who micromanages and treats you like you’re completely incompetent. No one else is allowed to have ideas; your judgment isn’t trusted, and your…
Why Organizations Fail
Engineering The Modern Corporation At GM In the early 20th century, Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the concept of scientific management. He showed that by breaking down jobs to their component parts,…
How a Skills Gap Impedes a Use of New Tech
A miss of skills and bargain is loitering a doing of a IoT, large information and other new technological trends, according to a new study. “Trends vs Technologies,” a investigate…
Internal Benefits of Practicing Innovation
Ultimately, innovation must be defined by the new value it creates for an organization. Sure, there are many innovations that create nominal value by shaving costs at various points of…
Trump’s Election: Poll Failures Hold Data Lessons For IT
Are your data analytics predictions models suffering from the same problems as the models that predicted Hillary Clinton would easily win the US Presidential election? Here are a few…