Zero Budget – A Boon to Innovation
Entrepreneurs come alive when all odds are stacked against them. Think of the famous stories. Walt Disney and Frank Lloyd Wright going bankrupt several times until their visions pay…
What Types of Innovation Projects Should Be Included In Your Portfolio?
Defining portfolio inclusion criteria is an essential part of portfolio management. let’s examine four basic categories of innovation that are useful when segregating a portfolio: Incremental innovation: This…
IT Products Go from Big Noise to Big Business
There’s been a positive change in the enterprise computing business of late; more product announcements truly are focused on how technology can help a company do business. I wish I…
5 Strategic Issues for 2017
There’s no question that the pace of technological change is accelerating and the level of digital disruption is growing. CIOs and other business and IT leaders should focus on five…
Jumpstart Your Innovation Results Transformation with Portfolio Management
Do you have a clear innovation strategy that directly links your innovation investment decisions to expected results? If not, while you can take comfort in knowing that you’re not alone,…
Five Tips for Successful Adoption of a PPM System
Change can be difficult. Organizations, like people, are creatures of habit. We tend to stick to paths, plans, and processes that are familiar to us. Portfolio Pipeline Management (PPM) involves…
Will Cloud Service Prices Go Up in 2017?
Competition and price cutting might be good for cloud customers, but the glory days of low prices might not make it into 2017. For several years, competition in the cloud…
There’s No ‘Thing’ You Can Do to Be Agile
The Agile concept isn’t just about IT and development, but about a mindset that has to extend throughout the business. Agile development enables IT to deliver software that is…
13 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Business If You Don’t Fix Them Now
I once worked with small company conducting a workshop on interviewing skills for their managers. When I asked about their interviewing process, they told me that they looked at a…
4 Strategies That Drive Brand Loyalty
Are you leading the next great startup, or are you a part of an executive team at a well-established corporation? While the demands placed on executives at every organization can…
Innovation Lessons from Santa Claus
The Holiday Season for innovation practitioners is a time for reflection on the previous year, its highlights and lowlights and all those days in between. Most of us will…
2016 mergers and acquisitions in tech: Our top 5 picks
2016 mergers and acquisitions in tech 1. Softbank scoops up ARM Holdings On Sept. 5, Japanese tech giant and Sprint owner SoftBank made the most expensive purchase of a European…
Will Salespeople Be Replaced by Robots?
As the CEO of one of the companies at the forefront of sales technology, at this time of year I often get asked about my predictions for what the future…
Innovating World Peace
by Mari Anixter If only. As a global innovation community we have discovered and solved. Trialed and triumphed in the humblest to courageous of ways. This we know, and this…
How 2017 will Accelerate and Deliver the New Innovation Era
So what are the critical paths of the New Innovation Era? It is the powerful effects of different conditions, solutions and forces combining that will deliver the new innovation…
Digital Business Summit: How to ride the digital wave
Digitization, a people-centric effort In the meantime, organizations are focusing on the hard work of making digital business a reality. On the technology side, McNee said it is important for…
Becoming a strategic CIO
It’s no secret that if CIOs want to stay relevant, their IT organizations need to function as strategic partners to the business. How CIOs achieve that is less clear, and…
The Unblinking Eye: Employee Monitoring in the IoT Era
Monitoring machines in the Internet of Things can provide valuable data, but there could be privacy issues when employees are using those machines. The privacy concerns raised by the Internet…
The Cloud Plays a Role in Digital Transformation
A new study reports that while digital transformation is a top priority for enterprises, most IT decision-makers have not fully implemented the technology needed to address initiatives that are critical…
The Next Entrepreneurial Gold Rush
For the past two decades, we’ve experienced life-changing events due to the evolution of technology. Creating, analyzing and transmitting data more quickly than ever has significantly advanced the absorption of…