OpenCAPI Opens New Realm Of Data Handling
IBM, Google, HPE, Dell, and others have combined resources to promote the OpenCAPI standard, which aims to boost the performance of data center servers tasked with analyzing large amounts of…
HP To Cut Up To 4,000 Jobs As PC Market Declines
In a filing with the SEC, HP said the cuts are part of a restructuring designed to reduce costs. The news came the same week that Gartner reported an 8th…
Hadoop: Pros And Cons For Enterprise Users
There’s been plenty of buzz about how Hadoop can store, process, and analyze huge files and huge volumes of files like no other technology before it. But is this open…
Simple Tips to Help You Climb the Corporate Ladder
The finest employees spend the bulk of their time helping their customers and colleagues improve and succeed. But bringing achievement to others should come with its rewards, and it is crucial…
8 Keys to Selling to the Millennial B2B Buyer
In 2014, Google reported that 46 percent of potential buyers researching B2B products were Millennials, up from 27 percent in 2012. Today, 73 percent of Millennial workers are involved in decisions…
Intelligent Disobedience for Product Managers
Are there times that product managers need to be disobedient – not do what they were asked to do? If such a situation arose, would the product manager be insubordinate…
Navigating the Challenges of the Consumer Health Universe
Consumer health, the proliferation of products and services at the intersection of the medical sector and the consumer sector, holds astronomical promise. Fitness trackers. Dietary apps. Home blood pressure monitors.…
5 Ways to Strengthen Your Online Reputation
Have you Googled yourself lately? Hopefully you have, because you can be sure others are looking you up online. Your online reputation is like your resume, your business card and…
6 Steps for Continuous Brand Improvement
The following excerpt is from Karen Tiber Leland’s new book The Brand Mapping Strategy. The Continuous Brand Improvement (CBI) Process is a simple methodology that any committed company can follow…
7 Ways to Have a Difficult Conversation Without Losing Your Client
Whether it’s for a first-time sales call or an interaction with a long-term client, difficult conversations seem to occur with some frequency during the sales process. According to a study by Forrester, 90…
Low Productivity? You May Need a Digital Detox.
We are inundated with technology. From the moment you wake up in the morning and pick up your smart phone to end the alarm, to the time you spend checking…
Winning on the Track, Winning on the Job: 5 Productivity Tips
There’s an old saying in racing that goes “in order to finish first, first you must finish.” No one knows exactly who said it first, but everyone agrees the adage…
This Is What Your Couch Potato Lifestyle Is Doing to Your Brain
Fear can be a fabulous motivator. Want to quit smoking? Imagine the inside of your lungs. Want to study harder? Picture working menial jobs for the rest of your life.…
3 Strategies CEOs Can Use to Remain Objective About Their Business
Cultivate Transparency and Honesty Without a culture that encourages vulnerability, transparency and honesty, you’ll never be able to get objective feedback from your team or your customers. This type…
5 Practical Programs that Build Innovation
As the business world is changing rapidly, the practical application of innovation programs can be confusing to organizations that are starting on an innovation path. Some methods are more…
Customer Co-Creation: A Deeper Path to Empathic Understanding
Each year businesses spend an aggregate of $40B on market research. This is largely in an effort to mine new insights about customers’ unmet needs, or to test out…
Branding Evolution
The media business is percolating with over-the-top content — shows, series, events, and whole channels that bypass cable and reach consumers through social media, the Web, and other platforms. So…
Why Innovation Is Moving Off-Premise
The majority of organizations are significantly stepping up hybrid cloud initiatives—moving beyond what was once described as “solid planning” for adoption into highly coordinated, fully integrated migration initiatives, according to…
8 Things Successful People Do With Their Downtime
When you think about the hyper-successful people of the world — the multi-billionaires, the CEOs, etc. — you probably imagine them working 24/7. And while they might put in more hours than…
3 Ways to Help Remote Employees Grow With Your Company
Remote workers are a growing trend in modern business, but an off-site team adds a layer of complexity to the age-old problem of keeping your staff both satisfied and productive. How do you…