The prospect of adding an employee to your small business can be exciting, but daunting at the same time. When that employee is your spouse or significant other, it can…
Business leaders worldwide believe the success of their enterprise depends on successfully deploying intelligent automation (IA) during the next five years, according to a report from Avanade. However, while the…
Pre-2008, everyone trusted that banks would protect their interests and maintain transparency, but the financial crisis changed it all. As trust in banks was shattered, new technologies emerged from the…
The likelihood of a company suffering a breach is worse than most believe. Here’s a checklist for building out a plan to deal with a breach. In 2016, the number…
AI goes beyond machine learning When a technology is labelled AI, the vendor must provide information that makes it clear how AI is used as a differentiator and what problems…
An article last week in the Silicon Valley Business Journal suggested that some Apple employees are less than thrilled with the futuristic headquarters building it recently opened. Now, the information…
Too often, companies are sold on a target price for their product. They want to charge somewhere between what the market is willing to pay and what’s necessary to turn…
Patented innovations line shelves as shown in the patent library above, and over the years I’ve written a number of times about the increasingly recombinative nature of innovation. This…
Boodell Domanskis, LLC is a client-focused law firm dedicated to providing individuals and businesses with responsive, proactive and cost-effective legal solutions. Managing member Al Domanskis believes that everyone needs to have a purpose…
It seems that every day brings fresh news of a big-box retailer surrendering to the relentless push of ecommerce and announcing the shuttering of more locations. Sears and Kmart were…
How do they do it? Those big brands that dominate across multiple aisles. It’s hard enough to win in a single category, let alone enter adjacent categories and have success…
Have you ever heard of the businessman who constantly says he’s just waiting for the right opportunity to come along? Waiting to be inspired means potentially waiting until the end…
To say that the world has changed over the last 25 years is a colossal understatement. We’ve experienced various disruptions – the internet, smartphones, tablets, apps, the cloud, electric self-driving cars, drones,…
As company culture and existing “organizational context” (attributes in the environment that can influence performance) keep CIOs from being as effective as they could be, many business executives said that…
As more enterprises discover AI-based business applications, the concept of transfer learning could help to level the playing field. Consumers have spoken, artificial intelligence is a profitable industry. From Amazon…
Some companies believe that collaboration in today’s agile workplace suffers when employees are full-time telecommuters. Some businesses believe agile-like development approaches are incompatible with full-time telecommuting. The key word is…
Research done on creativity in the workplace (including my own) showed multiple factors that affect employee creativity. Some are at the organizational level, some at the team level, and some at the individual…
When the world changes as rapidly as it does today, one of the greatest challenges we all face in business is staying relevant to our target market. The main reason…
Recent news of Bitcoin going over $4300 has a lot of people talking. Blockchain disruption has shifted majorly this year in the eyes of the mainstream from a weird basement…
There’s no shortage of things you can do to improve the performance of your sales team. You could re-start your CRM, re-train your salespeople, re-design your territories, re-do your incentive…