Innovation Needs a Home
Innovation Needs a Home An innovation program needs a home. Many believe it should be as close to the business units or revenue source as possible. While occasionally this…
4 Reasons Why Immigrants Are Essential for Entrepreneurship
There are more entrepreneurs in the United States than ever before. And many of them are immigrants, whose proportion of the U.S. population is the highest in history. According to…
How to Outsmart a Control Freak
We all know one. That insufferable person who micromanages and treats you like you’re completely incompetent. No one else is allowed to have ideas; your judgment isn’t trusted, and your…
Why Organizations Fail
Engineering The Modern Corporation At GM In the early 20th century, Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the concept of scientific management. He showed that by breaking down jobs to their component parts,…
Internal Benefits of Practicing Innovation
Ultimately, innovation must be defined by the new value it creates for an organization. Sure, there are many innovations that create nominal value by shaving costs at various points of…
How a Skills Gap Impedes a Use of New Tech
A miss of skills and bargain is loitering a doing of a IoT, large information and other new technological trends, according to a new study. “Trends vs Technologies,” a investigate…
Trump’s Election: Poll Failures Hold Data Lessons For IT
Are your data analytics predictions models suffering from the same problems as the models that predicted Hillary Clinton would easily win the US Presidential election? Here are a few…
Be Prepared for the Startup J-Curve
When you’re starting out as a small-business owner, you don’t always know what to expect. Especially when it comes to your own growth. There’s a common myth regarding the progress…
The Obvious Mistake Most Startups Know Not to Make (But Still Make Anyway)
How many business books does an aspiring entrepreneur have to read before they learn that Rome wasn’t built in a day? Or a week. Or even a year. Rome became Rome by…
The Money Metric You Might Not Know — But Should
Paul Graham, founder of the accelerator Y-Combinator, coined a term every startup should know: default dead. It is a pretty simple concept. Assume that your expenses and revenue growth remain…
Focus Is the Secret Weapon of the Business Sharpshooter
You’re running 20 minutes early this morning, Starbuck’s coffee in hand; it’s going to be a good day. You’re feeling motivated and ready to get the ball rolling, having every…
Why Few Data Centers Are Fully Optimized
Very few tech executives feel that their IT operations are running at an “optimized” level, according to a recent survey from Datalink. The resulting report, titled “Data Centers in Flux:…
Moore’s Law Is Ending for Cloud tech
Cloud suppliers won’t be able to bank the gains of Moore’s Law much longer and will have to eke out advances elsewhere. The cloud is currently an assembly of…
Where Your IT Dollars Are Headed In 2017
The responses align with IDC’s predictions that IT spending on cloud infrastructure — servers, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches for the enterprise private cloud and colocation services —…
21 Ways to Be a Better Leader
It doesn’t matter if you are running a business, managing a team, or teaching a class–leadership skills are important. Some people seem to be born knowing what to do toinspire…
Where Will Your Business Be When the Music Stops?
I’ve always loved the game “musical chairs.” You know, that game where a group of kids is circling a cluster of chairs, and everyone has to find a seat when…
How the Innovation in the IoT Will Boost Our Economy
When people think about the Internet of Things (IoT) in relation to the economy, they generally fall into one of two camps. One side of things looks the IoT and…
How AI Can Improve Searching for Data
As the Information Age unfolds and the volume and variety of data explodes, it’s clear that organizations must put data to work more effectively. At times, it’s amazing how…
Smart Cities Can Get More Out Of IoT, Gartner Finds
While many smart cities are using IoT for transportation issues, there’s a host of other initiatives these urban centers should start to address with the technology. Environmental and sustainability…
5 Ways Leaders Must Evolve Business and Reinvent Industries for the 21st Century
Today’s leaders must have more intimate knowledge of the business, design workplace cultures, and build teams that are focused on continuously evolving with the end-game in mind. To do…