3 Characteristics Every Chief Data Officer Needs
Companies have been bringing chief data officers (CDOs) on board at a rapid rate. Interestingly, most of those tapped to fill the high-profile position did not rise through the…
The 1 Secret to Being a Truly Successful Leader
Few leadership mindsets are more important than a leader’s mindset of seeing yourself as a creator of creators. It starts with a firm belief in the amazing creation capability…
Speed is Key To Startup Success (Here’s How To Move Fast)
As the founder of a startup development studio, Coplex, there’s one major mistake I see inexperienced entrepreneurs make time and time again: moving too slowly. But the need for speed…
Want Better Employees? Play Yellow Submarine.
Ask any business owner and you’ll learn that our biggest challenge this year is not only finding good people but also (and more importantly) keeping them productive and profitable. How…
Ducks In A Row: Prepping for A Deep Dive Meeting With Investors
Whether you are working with your first investors, or trying to build out the syndicate for your round, once you make a successful pitch to an investor or group of…
Are You Risk Averse?
In the first part of this series, we introduced the three risk profiles we work with on a daily basis. Before we can even begin to suggest funding options for…
How Your Office Will Need to Adjust To Remote-Working Employees
There’s a radical shift in how people work, and you can see it at at corner coffee shop. More people are using laptops remotely than ever before, and some of…
The Legal Perspective on Wellness Programs
Bottom Line: Recent ADA-related challenges raise questions over corporate initiatives designed to improve employees’ health. In recent years, an increasing number of companies have begun to offer their employees a…
Innovation Needs Different Thinking Horizons
We often constrain our innovation because we ‘shoe horn’ any conceptual thinking into a given time, usually the yearly budgetary plan, so it dominates the actions decided and can…
Ways to Stay Focused and Avoid Too Many Ideas and No Execution
If you use these ten techniques, though, you’ll be able to stay focused and start executing when you have all those heads taking up too much space in your head.…
Enterprise augmented reality: AR applications are just around the bend
Productivity gains from AR applications While Pokémon GO may have been a wake-up call for many, some organizations were already hard at work and gaining significant productivity benefits from AR…
Effective (and Simple) Ways to Keep Top Talent
While employees in other industries might reason onto recession-era concerns about withdrawal their pursuit and not anticipating another, IT professionals have small fear of unemployment. In a larger Atlanta area,…
How Better Planning From IT Can Prevent Problems
The infancy of IT managers’ departments are handling in a pell-mell state when it comes to IT use delivery, according to a new consult from TeamQuest and Kelton. The ensuing…
Efficiency is a key goal of platform business models
Platform business models generate value by bringing consumers and producers together — ideally in a way that is more efficient and qualitatively better than in the past. A platform…
IT Salary Outlook 2017: Starting Pay On The Rise
Starting salaries for IT professionals are expected to rise an average of 3.8% in 2017 compared with 2016. Find out which IT jobs are projected to see the greatest…
Flexible Work Schedules: Key To Boosting Millennials’ Productivity
The cultural mindset of millennial workers and the ability to connect to the web from nearly anywhere are driving workplace flexibility demands, according to a new report. (Click image for…
How To Retain Top IT Talent
If your organization can’t move beyond traditional work hours, it may have trouble keeping valuable tech employees happy. Here’s what IT leaders need to know. (Click image for larger view…
9 Data Center Automation Tools IT Pros Should Know
Pressure to increase productivity and deliver greater business value while limiting headcount has many organizations considering data center automation. Fortunately, there are many tools available to get it done. Here…
Analytics-Driven Innovation: Where Does IT Fit?
Sharad Sachdev, managing director and innovation lead at Accenture Analytics, tells us how to encourage an analytics-driven culture of innovation, and how you, as an IT professional, can make the…
3 Smart Tips for Disrupting an Entire Industry
From Silicon Valley to New York, startups everywhere are focusing on new ways to harness the power of technology to make our lives more efficient. Many “things” are no longer…