Relationships can change your game and your life, literally overnight. The benefits of a thriving network are truly countless. At the outset, building valuable relationships with successful individuals shifts your…
Hillary Clinton announced her tech and innovation plan in June. In it, she outlined an idea to defer student debt payments for entrepreneurs and even forgive some of their loans, if entrepreneurs…
Aside from the job scope itself, one factor that significantly influences how employees feel about work is the environment. By work environment, I mean everything that forms part of employees’…
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IT professionals who have yet to be convinced that API management could be useful need look no further than Google’s plan to acquire Apigee, an API management platform. It’s the…
In an epoch when IT transformations heed marketplace leaders, usually 16% of today’s companies can be described as “digital winners,” according to a new consult from SAP. The ensuing “Leaders…
Attracting top tech talent can be a challenge, especially at a time when competition is fierce for a limited supply of qualified applicants. Here are five tactics that can…
3 Ways to Stop Making Dumb Decisions The quality of your decisions determines the quality of your career success. Outdated inherited thinking lies just below conscious awareness and can…
In a piece written earlier this year Inc.com contributor Larry Kim laid out a bunch of great reasons why your business should be advertising on Facebook and why it’s the…
Nothing is more intriguing, inspiring, and engaging than a good old-fashioned challenge. Whether you want to build a culture of innovation, reach employees in a meaningful way, or search…
How many times have you been at a conference and heard the debate of profit versus altruistic goals of a business? I am tired of this debate–I strongly believe you…
Snapchat’s messages may disappear, but the company’s advertising dollars are starting to pile up. The Los Angeles startup is nearly on pace to cross $1 billion in annual revenue by…
the Creative Expedition process has been going on for some time now at Auchan. Context and objectives Creative Expedition process is part of Auchan’s participative innovation plan called Creative Attitude,…
Steve Jobs didn’t want to build an app store. As Walter Isaacson describes in his biography of Apple’s founder, the famously controlling Jobs was wary of the “bandwidth” needed to police…
Last week I attended a CIO event in New York. I was invited to participate in a lunch table discussion on digital transformation and its impact on the role of…
Everyone of a certain age has their 9/11 story. It is one of those searing events that one never forgets. Mine is one of a near miss. I was scheduled…
by Patrick Willer I can vividly remember my first VR experience. It was 25 years ago! It was early 90’s. I was a teenager addicted to video games. When I…
Many companies use white papers as a cleverly hidden marketing ploy. The idea is to write a document that doesn’t look so much like a sales piece, but looks more like…
Nobody sets out to be a one-hit wonder. But too much focus on a hot product can distract a company from building the culture, operations and strategy it needs for…
Teaching entrepreneurship in prisons has three principal traits that can help tremendously when starting a business. 1. Fear of failure is much less of an issue. According to the most recent…