Digital Transformation Underway, Many Will Fail At It
IDC has issued its IT FutureScape forecast for 2017, which includes 10 predictions for IT. Here’s how cloud, mobile, social media, big data, AI, virtual reality, and other innovations…
Adopting Digital Change Inside a Enterprise
As we arrive during a theatre of nearby gigantic interconnectivity, executives are struggling to digitize, gaining a lively to clarity and conflict to changing marketplace conditions, regulating all accessible appurtenance…
Serendipity in the Cloud
Bottom Line: Shifting from physical to virtual data platforms can reduce companies’ costs and improve sustainability. As managers face increasing pressure from stakeholders to make supply chains eco-friendly, companies are…
Cultural Lag: When Innovation Moves Faster Than Regulation
by Andy Heikkila Everybody loves Elon Musk. Well, everybody that’s not in the business of fossil fuels and other non renewable energy resources, that is. Earlier this year, Robert E.…
Innovation Decision Makers – the genius or the customer?
by Kevin McFarthing Steve Jobs was rare. There are very few situations where normal companies can take the approach of avoiding the customer’s views. In most markets, customer insights can…
How CIOs Can Drive Business Growth
While many CIOs demeanour brazen to a event to use tech to assistance a business strategically, several obstacles are removing in a way, according to a new survey. The infancy…
Will Digital Economy Create A Developer Shortage?
As more companies seek to transform themselves digitally and effectively become software companies, some are going to have trouble filling “the developer gap,” according to a Cloud Foundry report. (Click…
Can IT Pros Succeed Without A Bigger Role In Business?
Is your current IT role giving you the kind of well-rounded opportunities you need to succeed in the next five to ten years? There’s seems to be a disconnect between…
The Ultimate Business-Writing Checklist: How to Ensure Customer Trust and Sales
Words can make or break a business deal. They have the potential to convert unaware prospects into repeat buyers. Businesses become brands when they communicate their vision effectively. So, how do you bridge…
2 Key Ways to Make Your Product More Useful or More Appealing to Customers
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. There are five ways to make a product or service more useful: Vary performance — make more (or…
5 Ways Technology Is Democratizing Healthcare
Economists, politicians and social workers have been concerned about the aging Baby Boomer demographic for years. How long will they live? Will they have enough for retirement? What will healthcare…
How Ecommerce Is Changing Warehouses for the Better
Warehouses have been a crucial component for retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and many other types of businesses for decades. As a place to store and ship inventory, however, they’re highly susceptible to…
5 Truths About Gen-Z Businesses That Want a Future Need to Know
The oldest members of “Generation Z” (aka Gen Z-ers) are turning 19 and they’re hitting the workforce and influencing purchasing decisions. And like the generations that precede them, Gen Z-ers…
6 Leadership Skills That Will Have You Solving Problems Like a Pro
The road to success, just like life, is paved with obstacles and difficulties. All truly successful entrepreneurs had just as many problems as successes. Many of the entrepreneurs I talk…
5 Things 3-D Printing Is Still Missing
There’s lots of talk about what 3D printers could do— from printing food and household objects, to homes, and even organ tissue, to name a few. And while it’s true…
How Unnecessarily Ambitious Deadlines Can Crush Progress
It is Monday morning and I’ve already had a failure this week. I have a product I worked hard to finish and roll out today, but the pieces didn’t come…
To Innovate or Not? From Spurgeon to the Bloomberg Innovation Index
Ideas can be shackled. If an idea cannot be heard, explained, elaborated, even debated; it is at a disadvantage. Unable to move forward, it can’t be free and realize…
Disrupting the Disruptors: 3 Major Problems Facing Companies That Shake Up Industries
Once a startup comes in and shakes up an industry, it’s hardly ever smooth sailing into the sunset. It can be all too easy to grab market share with new…
The Art of Customer Delight
Airlines routinely rank at the bottom of customer satisfaction surveys. But we would wager that most customers, like us, find that the time on the plane — the “sit…
Break free from lights-on IT by empowering the business
IT empowerment model: Four concepts Cramm laid out four key concepts that underpin the IT empowerment model: From direct to indirect control This means controlling IT via policies, process and…