7 Ways to Stay Productive While You’re Traveling
Here’s the thing about traveling: In theory, you have a lot of time to yourself. The problem is that of all the places to work, a busy airport, a packed…
This Company Has Acquired the Most Artificial Intelligence Startups
Mergers and acquisitions of artificial intelligence startups have been on the rise since 2011. This company is leading the trend. Large tech companies are snatching up artificial intelligence…
10 Simple Habits of Relentlessly Positive People
10 Simple Habits of Relentlessly Positive People We can always choose to see life differently. What are some simple mini-habits that can change a person’s outlook on life?originally appeared on…
60 Inspiring Quotes To Keep You Going On The Road To Success
60 Inspiring Quotes To Keep You Going On The Road To Success Big successes are an accumulations of small successes Success can be a long and winding road, filled with…
7 Psychological Reasons Planning Out Your Lunch Hour Is a Must
For most people, the day is an endless stream of priorities. But lunch? That might as well have a “Neglect me!” sticker on it, because only about 20 percent of…
SolarCity Teams Up With Airbnb to Crack the Millennial Market
Two innovative companies are teaming up to try to tap into each other’s customer bases. Airbnb and SolarCity announced a partnership Tuesday that will give rebates to new customers who…
5 Fail-Proof Free Strategies to Ensure Your Business Stands Out
When you’re starting a business — or even just thinking about starting a business — one of the most important questions you must consider is: What are you going to…
Why Telcos Are Looking At Tech Startups To Ensure Their Future
Corporate Venture capital (CVC) investments have more than tripled in emerging markets in the last five years as more and more mobile operators invest in start-ups to aid their acceleration,…
Why Your Profit Sharing Program Isn’t Working and What You Can Do About It
Jim cares about his employees; he knows all of them by name. Business is booming, and he wants his team to share in the financial success. To accomplish this, he…
How The Power Of Many Impacts Innovation
There is perhaps no greater force than that of the collective. Collective actions have made things that were previously thought to be impossible, possible. When communities work together, it’s a powerful…
Communication is Key for Innovation Implementation and Business Success
by Robert F Brands The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival hammers the point home that innovation is the key to your company’s survival—in…
Building Coalitions for Change
by Adi Gaskell Whether it’s the post-Brexit discussions or the US presidential debates, you could be forgiven that we’re living in a post-coalition world whereby change occurs less through building…
When Companies Should, and Shouldn’t, Tout Their Global Reach
Bottom Line: Being recognized as an international brand is usually a decided competitive advantage. But some markets and certain consumers prefer local firms. Projecting an image as a brand with…
It Takes a Village to Raise a Brand
When Howard Schultz resumed his role as CEO at Starbucks in 2008, the brand he’d created was losing ground. During the eight years that Schultz had been chairman while Orin…
Can Conversation Supplant Bureaucracy?
The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco, Columbia University Press, 2016 In 2012, Catherine Turco became increasingly intrigued by what she saw…
Holiday Season Hiring Shows Companies Need Human Touch
This holiday shopping season will be the most digital in history, with e-commerce more dominant than it’s ever been. And it will be brought to you by…people. The narrative, of…
CIOs, your chief execs want help on digital business innovation
ORLANDO, Fla. — More chief executives are looking to digital products and services, blurring the lines between physical and digital business, to fundamentally change the way their companies operate —…
Why IT and Agile Don’t Get Along
Complaints about IT’s speed aren’t utterly new, yet one thing is new—there appears to be a solution. Over a final 15 years, new approaches to use growth and smoothness have…
How to Benefit from Self-Service Analytics Tools
CIOs and their tech teams could better support line-of-business units by enabling what’s called “self-service” data analytics, according to a recent survey from Alteryx and Harvard Business Review. The accompanying…
How to Ace Vendor Audits
A infancy of companies have perceived program and hardware review requests from vendors over a final 18 months—and many have undergone these audits several times during this time frame, according…