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3 Keys to Stop Being a Helicopter CEO
If you’re a child of the ’80s like me, you’ll be familiar with the concept of the “helicopter parent,” meaning moms and dads who figure that the best way to…
Making Your Company Innovative: Where to Start
It takes two factors to make innovation real at an organization: concepts and culture. Work on both at the same time and the rest will emerge as a by-product of…
Conjoint Analysis for Product Managers and Innovators
What’s in your toolbox for conducting consumer and market research? Does it include Conjoint Analysis? the types of information Conjoint Analysis can provide, such as pricing specifics, when to…
Strategy and the Board
Some governance experts argue that when it comes to a company’s strategy, the buck stops with the CEO. They say the board’s most important purpose is to choose the CEO,…
Digital labor: What forward-looking CIOs should know
Software robots will increasingly be deployed in the service industry. The financial services sector is already… Continue Reading This Article Enjoy this article as well as all of our content,…
Technology Helps Support a Freelance Economy
The freelance economy continued to grow this year, fueled, in part, by technology, pronounced a new investigate consecrated by a freelance website Upwork and a Freelancers Union. Conducted by Edelman…
How a Contest or Giveaway Can Attract Business Prospects
The following excerpt is from Wendy Keller’s book Ultimate Guide to Platform Building. There are two good reasons to consider giving things away via contests, raffles and giveaways. First, these…
Is Your Business Vulnerable to an Attack From a Simplifier? Here’s How to Find Out.
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. Are market leaders naturally vulnerable when faced with firms that start to simplify their markets? The honest answer…
8 Accounting To-Dos for Your End-of-the-Year Checklist
An understaffed accounting department caused big trouble for the city of Spokane, Washington. During an audit of the city’s 2014 taxes, several errors surfaced, including revenue miscalculation, an overstatement of general…
Preparing Your 2017 Financing Strategy
As you prepare and plan for 2017, here are ten defensive and offensive financing strategies to consider. DEFENSIVE 1 Have you reviewed the mix between your fixed rate and variable…
The Only Three Swim Lanes that Matter to a Business
The business actually creates value for four different stakeholders – workers, customers, shareholders, and society. Workers gain value in the form of compensation, benefits, and, most importantly, the intrinsic…
Ten Innovation Strategies for the Holidays
Ideas are a key part of any innovation. We often talk about the Eureka moment, and an idea simply popping into our minds out of thin air. There is considerable…
Cyber-Security Model Can Help a Company Innovate
Forward-thinking organizations are adopting a new indication for cyber-security that acts on analytic inputs and adapts to elaborating risks and threats, pronounced a new news from PwC. As a result,…
Self-Service Access, Cloud Drive Big Data Value
Data governance has emerged as a top concern, and business intelligence remains the top workload for big data technology Hadoop, according to the third edition of the Big Data Maturity…
Anticipating Customers’ Holiday Shopping Habits?
In 2015, between Black Friday and Christmas Eve, ecommerce sales increased by 20 percent over the same period in 2014. When this year’s 2016’s, holiday-shopping sprint ends this month, ecommerce figures are…
Lead or Get Out of the Way: Fence-Sitting Is No Longer an Option
Simply managing the status quo is no longer acceptable. People who play defense and avoid offense are “leader-caretakers.” True leaders constantly must position themselves to boldly guide their organizations into…
10 Rules for Leveraging Social Media to Grow Your Business
Whether you’re a social butterfly, or you’re apprehensive when it comes to vociferously communicating with others in a public space, there are some inherent rules to follow when it…
Postal Innovation
It’s the time of the year when we are deluged with packages, many of which are delivered by the US Postal Service (USPS). The surge in e-commerce has resulted…
10 Great Ideas That Were Originally Rejected
History has shown us that a lot of wise people haven’t been able to recognize the potential of a great idea. “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously…