Happiness as a Company Goal
Happiness, the highest goal in life?Can you think of a higher goal in life than happiness? That’s hard right? Looking back in time, many philosophers from all eras have thought…
How to Become an Ambidextrous Leader
A few pages into Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator’s Dilemma (Stanford University Press, 2016), business professors Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman present two lists…
New Model with Four Routes to Start Innovation
The start of innovation is described by Wikipedia as the messy getting started period of a new product development process. It is in the front end where the organization formulates a concept…
Phase Gate and Portfolio Management: Two Processes, One Goal
Portfolio management and phase gate are two different but interdependent disciplines that must both be done successfully to ensure sustained results from innovation. Portfolio Management Portfolio management is a process…
U.S. Farms Still Feed the World, But Farm Jobs Dwindle
It has long been an iconic U.S. industrial sector. It used to employ a very large proportion of the workforce — especially in the Midwest — and provide wages to…
Why Tech Teams Consider Windows 10 a Win
The majority of IT professionals said their organization has been satisfied with Windows 10 since adopting it, according to a recent survey from Spiceworks. Since its release in July 2015,…
Unlimited vacation time cropping up at startups, GE, but policy rare
American workhorses Survey respondents in the SHRM report also pointed to such benefits and challenges of unlimited leave. “Organizations that offered unlimited leave indicated that it is a positive benefit…
Cloud Infrastructure Market: AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Dominate
A crowded field of cloud competitors, including AWS, Microsoft, Google, and IBM, dominated the global cloud infrastructure market in the second quarter of 2016, according to Synergy Research. For IT…
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7: Smartphone Security Stepped Up
The iris scanner and fingerprint reader bring a new level of security to Samsung’s latest device, making it more attractive to business customers. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.)…
Ransomware Hit Nearly 50% Of Businesses In 2015: Study
Last year nearly half of businesses were attacked with ransomware, which caused 34% of enterprises to lose revenue and 20% to cease operations immediately. (Click image for larger view and…
Detachable Tablets Continue As Enterprises’ Choice
Sales of traditional slates continue to slip as the more productive detachable form factor finds favor with business users, according to an IDC report. (Click image for larger view and…
Data Theft Prevention: Companies Lack Policies, Knowledge
Data theft is the act of stealing information stored on computers, servers, or other devices from an unknowing victim with the intent to compromise privacy or obtain confidential information. Data…
Google’s Cloud Lets You Bring Your Own Encryption Keys
By supplying their own encryption keys, organizations can reduce the chance that an outside party will be able to gain access to their data, at least while it’s at rest.…
10 Reasons Your Data Vision Will Fail
Even as they aspire to be data driven, organizations are failing to align their vision with execution. Pitfalls lurk everywhere. We’ve uncovered 10 of the most common culprits. (Image: geralt…
Where Has All the Social Engagement Gone?
Is social networking dying as a way to engage the public, drive traffic and build brand? I’m hearing a lot of complaints about this. But is this true? Clearly, the…
How the Cloud Has Made an Indelible Impact on IT
A new study shows that most organizations offload tasks, improve their agility, add new functionality and reduce costs with software as a service (SaaS), but they still need to think…
IoT Investments Rise, But IT Pros Harbor Security Concerns
As IoT investment grows, with billions of dollars flowing into new enterprises, IT departments, as well as other parts of the business, are expressing concerns over the security risks the…
HPE Reportedly Considers Going Private
Has HPE put itself or its software business up for sale? Multiple reports note that a group of private equity companies are interested in buying the software business, or taking…
7 Cool Data Center Innovations
Data centers are like snowflakes — no two are exactly the same. Sure, they may all consist of similar building blocks, but each one is put together differently — and…
Rio Olympics Will Test Atos’s IT Systems, Cloud Infrastructure
Atos, the supplier of IT systems to the 2016 Summer Olympics, has been testing its technology for 200,000 hours before the games begin this week. Like many other businesses, Atros…