This Exercise Will Help You Generate More Ideas
If you’re like most people, you think that creativity is a mysterious, even magical, process by which new concepts and ideas are summoned out of the ether–ready to change the…
Eat ‘Eats’ Up $2 Million In New Funds To Take The Fight To Reserve Out
Restaurant reservation app Eat has revealed that it has raised $2 million from Bahrain-based investment fund Pinnacle and others. This funding round takes the startup’s total funding so far to…
Here’s How to Work From Home Without Taking a Pay Cut
Would you rather work at an office or at home? If you’re like most Americans, your preference for working at home is so strong that you’d be willing to take an…
How to Take Your Organizational Skills From Pathetic to Perfect
Even if your personal life is perfectly organized, it isn’t always easy to transfer those skills to your work life. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, a freelancer, or an employee, being organized…
Secret To Success: Aim High, Start Small and Keep Going
Increasing your success is involving aiming high and setting a big goal. Why is that important? Well because big goals can inspire us to take action. They can fit…
Old Business Model – Symptom of Business Sickness
Is your business haunted by the blinding ghosts that worked in another era? The wealthiest man in Japan, Tadashi Yanai, has a business plan that looks 300 years into…
Thinking Through a Crowdsourcing Initiative [2/3]
Crowdsourcing does have a real potential in my mind but does seem to have some formidable issues to work through, to be well understood and managed. Partnering with…
Rodeo Innovation
Innovation programs in large and small companies often screen ideas and the ones which do not meet the hurdle are dismissed, archived, or just forgotten. Since the individual idea…
Big data security, privacy becomes a concern for marketing analytics
Marketers ally with data scientists, but data security, privacy a concern Speaking to an audience comprising of mostly marketing professionals, Berebichez predicted that in five years or so, data science…
6 Signs You Need A Multi-Cloud Strategy
Enterprises adopt more than one type of cloud for a number of reasons, including security, shadow IT, and the varying degrees of support from providers. Here are 6 signs…
Cloud IT Infrastructure Spending To Hit 37% In 2016
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Forecast nudges total IT budget spent on cloud to 36.9% in 2016. Total spending on computing products for deployment in both private cloud and…
Let’s Patent This: A Primer For Enterprise App Developers
Patents aren’t typically the first thing on your mind when you’re developing an application for your enterprise. Yet, there’s a great deal of creative development work going on at…
5 Social Entrepreneurship Essentials
The following excerpt is from Jason Haber’s new book The Business of Good. In The Business of Good, serial and social entrepreneur Jason Haber intertwines case studies and anecdotes…
6 Obstacles to Creative Thinking and How to Overcome Them
Have you ever felt blocked and uncreative or feel like you can’t solve even a simple problem? You have amazing creative talent and skills, you just have to learn…
Why Should Your Business Care About Social Responsibility?
The times, they are a-changin’. So is the way we do business and the way companies present themselves to their customers. Ten years ago, only a handful of Fortune 500…
The Secret to Digital Natives’ Success
Software used to be an enabler of business operations, though now, some-more and some-more often, software is a business. Uber, a world’s largest cab company; Facebook, a largest amicable…
Vacations and Business Can Co-Exist — Here’s How
Entrepreneurs typically lead fast-paced lives — constantly on the go, juggling all kinds of stresses, responsibilities, and pressures. It’s not always a popular opinion, but taking a vacation or break…
15 Outspoken Quotes on Innovation
“Operational Excellence generates your profits today. Innovation excellence will generate your profits tomorrow.” – Operational excellence generates your profits of today. That’s clear to all of us. But what will…
Where is the Crowdsourcing Movement Heading?
Crowdsourcing has been growing in interest for some time to change our thinking in innovation discovery. It can hold a key for us to help solve vexing questions, real…
Customer Loyalty Isn’t What It Used to Be
Over the years, loyalty and points programs have become little more than complicated incentive schemes to increase customer spending and retention. “Today every company has a loyalty program —…