What’s Your Innovation Ambition?
As Oscar Wilde said, “We are all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars”. To me this phrase says a lot about ambition. It…
Machine Learning Startups Snapped Up: Big Data Roundup
Apple, Intel, Palantir, and HPE were among the tech giants acquiring data analytics and machine learning companies. Here’s your Big Data Roundup for the week ending August 14, 2016…
What is the Foundation of Innovation?
These are the ten questions to ask when innovation needs a jump-start. 1.Have I articulated the strategy for my team to follow and why it’s important? Good people…
Here’s How You Measure Organizational Health At Your Firm
If your organizational health report is just fine, no one can stop you from creating waves in the market. In general, when we think of business, the first thing…
3 Hard to Learn Skills That Will Help You Succeed
The best things in life may be free, but that doesn’t mean they won’t take time, sweat, and perseverance to acquire. That’s especially the case when it comes to learning important life…
Steve Jobs: Abusive Manager or Inspirational Leader?
Steve Jobs was famously fired from his own company in 1985 after a clash with John Sculley, Apple’s CEO at the time. He was criticized for being headstrong and having…
Are You Working Too Fast? How Speed Is Hurting Your Productivity
This story first appeared on The Muse, a Web destination with exciting job opportunities and expert career advice. The ability to work with jackrabbit speed is typically recognized and rewarded in business. Simply…
Sorry, But Here Is Why Your Restaurant Will Fail
Do you live in a big city? Then we can bet our bottom dollar that you have borne witness to the rise and fall of many restaurants, fast food…
Innovate like a startup or like big business?
Startups are king when it comes to innovation. Indeed, established companies often strive to behave more like startups. But in reality, it is quite challenging. Startups, on the other…
IT strategic planning
CIOs and IT executives need a clearly defined strategic IT plan in order to guide their organization in today’s competitive environment. Drafting such a plan, however, isn’t easy. An IT…
Four Routes to Simplify Innovation
The Idea Route Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From, describes ideas as slow hunches. Some of them may take years to hatch. Others might hit you overnight. Now,…
Can Your IT Team Navigate Digital Tech?
Navigating today’s business and IT landscape is nothing short of daunting. Technologies—and the skills required to operate systems—fly by at rocket speed. At this point, almost every organization has been…
Q&A: Factors to consider before joining the Privacy Shield framework
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) began accepting certifications for the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield on Aug. 1. The transatlantic data transfer framework — a joint effort by the U.S. DOC…
AWS Launches Simple Analytics Service On Kinesis Data
Amazon knows customers want to do things with the data streams they’re capturing in the cloud. With that in mind, AWS is offering Kinesis Analytics as its answer. (Click image…
HPE Doubles-Down On HPC With SGI Acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired another high performance computing company with a long history in Silicon Valley — SGI — in a deal worth $275 million. Here’s what the acquisition…
Is Your IT Team Reactive or Strategic?
The “ Kaseya IT Operations Benchmark Survey ” distinguishes organizations into a series of categories, including those deliberate vital and those deliberate reactive. Aligned/strategic companies are tangible as those that…
IDC: Global Public Cloud Services Will Reach $195 Billion By 2020
While SaaS is by far the leading slice of the public cloud services pie, IT professionals should keep an eye PaaS and IaaS as well, because these are the fast-rising…
9 Enterprise Mobility Management Tools For IT Pros
Choosing the right EMM suite requires IT organizations to understand their needs and the capabilities of the various options. These nine options were featured in Gartner’s 2016 Magic Quadrant…
20 Habits of Highly Unsuccessful And Ineffective Leaders
It’s great to read books and articles about what the great leaders do so that we can model ourselves on the best, and I highly recommend that. However, it’s also worthwhile…
How Software and Solutions May Be All That Saves 3D Printing
3D Printing has had a hell of a road, with a flurry of press about it being the future, being featured in episodes of Grey’s Anatomy printing out human tissue…