Big Data, Analytics Market To Hit $203 Billion In 2020
IDC reports that the big data and business analytics market will grow to $203 billion over the next few years — a double-digit increase from this year. The banking…
4 Ways to Use Your Local Community to Scale Your Business
Creativity and hungry ambition run through the veins of Colorado’s capital city. Nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, it’s easy to get lost daydreaming while gazing westward out…
SaaS Growth: Why IT Support Is Crucial
Despite mass adoption in recent years, there is still room for SaaS to grow. IT needs to support — not resist — it, reports EY Transaction Advisory Service. SaaS…
5 Keys To Effectively Sell IT Projects To The Business
Before you can build an IT project, you have to get funding and support from the business side of your organization. Here are five tips that can help you…
The Key to Explosive Growth May Be Sitting Down The Hall
Entrepreneurs are the celebrated darlings of business. In most cases, they took a spark of an idea and pulled together the resources to build that into a company. They have…
Following Four Different Paths to Innovation
Drop in breakthrough ideas between the mid 1990’s and 2010. The share of breakthrough new products has been halved in the last decades from 20.4% in the mid-1990s to only…
The Best Laid Marketing Plans
The digital disruption epitomized by Uber, Airbnb, and Netflix that we are all too familiar with is beginning to play out in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. The approach…
7 Fascinating Facts About Hugely Successful U.S. Companies
It’s easy to assume that iconic companies were always established. But they weren’t, and their origin stories are much like those of superheros – humble, intriguing, and inspirational. Here are…
Where Are IT Investments Going In 2017?
If information is the key to success then knowing about key technology needs and trends of the industry is key to the successful technology investment. The latest emerging technology trends…
Managing Chaos Through Digital Governance
Chaos has a way of slipping into an organization and creating problems that grow exponentially over time. With so much innovation, collaboration and bottom-line focused initiatives involving digital assets,…
Adopting a Digital State of Mind
The top levels of organizational care are looking to IT as a primary motorist of a digital transformation—something that C-level executives cruise as a vicious vital priority for a future,…
3 Rare Habits of Successful People That You Can Adopt Right Now
What are some uncommon habits that contribute to success? What are some uncommon habits that contribute to success? This really is an interesting question, because the term “common” is…
The Number One Reason You Can’t Get Motivated
If someone is having trouble getting motivated to do something, is it because they don’t want it badly enough? “You just don’t want it badly enough.” That’s the accusation frequently…
7 Things to Do During Your Lunch Break (Infographic)
Lunch isn’t just for gobbling down a sandwich and carrying on with your work — it’s a time to recharge your mind. That’s why it’s important to use your breaks…
Why the 4 Ps of Marketing Might Be Outdated
The 4 Ps of marketing, also known as the producer-oriented model, have been used by marketers around the world for decades. Created by Jerome McCarthy in 1960, the 4…
How Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft Miss Creative Talent
There are pervasive myths that older people are stuck in their ways, lack creativity and dynamism and cannot cope with new technology. This is reflected in ageism in hiring.…
IT vendor governance expands to business functions
In today’s business environment with its complexity, required quick responses, and globalization, the costs to an organization or enterprise can be significant to stay competitive and meet business initiatives and…
Transform Your Company and Become One With Your Brand Promise
The following excerpt is from Karen Tiber Leland’s book The Brand Mapping Strategy. Over the past few decades, I’ve seen my share of cultural change processes and company transformations…
Honest Conversation About Entrepreneurship
Encouraging entrepreneurship is in vogue nowadays, particularly on the campaign trail. We know our economy needs more entrepreneurs, but the way many policymakers frame the debate may not be doing…
12 Stressful Things You Need To Stop Tolerating Right Now
Some forms of stress are necessary–especially if we want to stimulate creativity and new learning. Others bring no benefit at all and serve only to prevent us from being effective…