How to Sell Your Company Without Selling Your Soul
Selling your company is a career highlight for many entrepreneurs. It signifies success. You’re one of the lucky few instead of the many walking dead. It often provides you financial…
Bold, New Ecommerce Businesses Are the Ones Holding Sway in the Online Marketplace
The global ecommerce market is on pace to sell more than $22 trillion in products by the time 2016 comes to a close. Even though annual growth rates are set to slow…
Why Employee Engagement Programs Backfire and What You Can Do About It
In recent years, employee engagement programs have become part of business leaders’ efforts to improve morale in many organizations. The thought is that by paying for you to take part…
If 80 Percent of Success Is Showing Up Then 20 Percent Is Following up
Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success in life is just showing up. Now granted, Woody Allen also defended dating his adopted daughter by saying, “The heart wants what it…
How Lucrative Startups Can Avoid Disruption as They Grow
In his popular TED Talk filmed earlier this year, Adam Grant–New York Times best-selling author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World–leads with a shocking admission. “Seven years ago, a…
7 Signs Your Startup Is Focused on Stuff That Doesn’t Matter
7 Signs Your Startup Is Focused on Stuff That Doesn’t Matter A CEO unloads on entrepreneurs who are more interested in “playing startup” than actually building a business. Startups are…
How to Create an Innovative Business Model?
by Gijs van Wulfen Do you dream big about entering a huge market and overthrow the incumbents with an innovative business model, like Uber or AirBnB? Or, as innovation professional…
Software Cloud Deployment Is Ready for Primetime
With Gartner predicting that the cloud will emerge as the default option for software deployment by 2020, a clear majority of organizations have either already made this transition or are…
Why You Need to Be in a Committed Relationship With Content Marketing
Any couple will tell you a happy marriage takes total commitment. An Olympian will tell you she didn’t get the gold without complete dedication. And a good parent will tell…
8 Horrible Habits That Are Ruining Your Productivity (And How To Fix Them)
If there is one thing in life people underestimate, it is the impact of their daily habits. Whether you want to admit it or not, the truth is that just…
Slow-Motion Automation
Automation — in the form of machine learning, robotics, autonomous vehicles, white-collar bots, exoskeletons, and so on — is changing the nature of work in a wide range of…
The Serious Fun of Shared Experiences at Work
In 2016, a Yale study showed that experiences are amplified and more meaningful if they are shared. In the study, participants tasted chocolate at the same time another person…
Enterprise augmented reality applications ready for prime time
The rise of enterprise augmented reality applications Thanks to the rise of smartphones, smart sensors and improved 3D graphics capabilities, experts see signs that AR’s time has finally come. Digi-Capital…
Why Users Don’t Connect to New Analytics Tools
The presence of self-service and embedded analytics tools is steadily increasing within organizations, according to a recent survey from Logi Analytics. The resulting “State of Analytics Adoption Report” reveals that…
CIOs Get Strategic As IT Budgets Stay Flat
Tech budgets are moving out of IT control and are expected to remain flat, but CIOs are gaining more influence across the broader enterprise, according to CEB Global’s 2017…
CIOs Face Changes, Volatility In 2017, Forrester Predicts
IT transitions will accelerate in 2017 as CIOs look to deliver business outcomes, develop technologies that serve customers, and embrace new technologies such as AI and AR, according to…
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Slack Designers Explain the Art of Creating Smart A.I. Bots
Siri–and all her artificially intelligent peers–are increasingly taking on more tasks for people at home and at work. But as impressive as these digital assistants can be, they’re still very…
6 Important Lessons for Handling Stressed Customers
Businesses are in business to solve problems. Problems cause stress. It’s, therefore, logical you’re going to have some stressed customers. If you and your team handle these stressful times well,…
5 Simple Steps To Grow Your Startup 5X Faster
Every business wants growth–startups especially. In fact, growth is how the value of a business is evaluated. Whether that growth is measured in sales, users, recurring revenue, etc. So how…
Measure Twice, Cut Once
by Michael Graber Ideas are a dime a dozen, indeed; the old cliché holds true. When following a formal Innovation process, it pays to measure the size of the market…