How blockchain works: An infographic explainer
Societal impact of blockchain technology Experts predict that the list of blockchain use cases — and the technology’s impact on society — will continue to grow. According to Don Tapscott,…
Long-Term Success Starts With Managing Your Startup’s Runway
There are a few truths about founding a startup. You’ll work longer hours than you thought possible, you’ll be surprised at how many people fit into a three-person office, and…
How to Win on ‘Shark Tank’
In Shark Tank’s seven seasons (the eighth begins September 23), a total of 253 teams scored deals and 242 did not. What made the difference? “Presence and personality matters just…
How to Create an Amazing Customer Experience
If you want to build a successful ecommerce business, you need to be thinking about how you can create an amazing customer experience. Today, customer loyalty is dubious at best.…
How CIOs Should Convey Cyber-Risks to a Board
Half of IT and confidence executives risk losing their jobs if they destroy to yield useful, actionable information to their company’s board, according to a new study. The report, “How…
How to Maximize a Benefits of a Platform Economy
The enlargement of a digital economy has put it on march to comment for 25 percent of a whole universe economy by 2020, adult from 15 percent in 2005,…
How Most Businesses Lose Time With Tracking Software
How Most Businesses Lose Time With Tracking Software Are you tracking work time, but not making the most of it? Most businesses rely on some kind of tracking…
3 Magic Traits for Business Growth
In an attention getting paradox introduced by authors Zook and Allen, they explain the relationship between growth and complexity. In their words, “growth creates complexity and complexity is the silent…
Marketplace Status Quo – The Big Lie
There’s a big deceit looming over the global marketplace, perhaps the most prevalent and insidious bias in business. This big lie is that the status quo exists. Nothing stays…
Managers Need to Understand Their Sales Reps’ Cultural Values
Bottom Line: Employees who push innovative products have a tough job, but can be encouraged by managers who grasp their motivations to succeed. Seeing their innovative products fly off the…
ClubCorp CIO Sees Cloud As Hole In One For Golf
ClubCorp CIO Patrick Benson is finding that both infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service are important to migration. The two cloud technologies are also fundamental for future mobile applications. You’re a midsize…
IoT Success: Sharing Data, Analytics Fuels Growth
A report from the MIT Sloan Management Review finds that companies that share data from their internet of things projects are better positioned to take advantage of what the…
8 Painful Vendor Mistakes IT Pros Make
If you’re looking for more guidance on how to evaluate vendors, consulting firm Temkin releases an annual Experience Rating of Tech Vendors each November. The company surveys 800 IT…
The 6 Main Reasons Businesses Fail and How to Avoid Each
Success and failure are intimately connected. As we pursue success, we are also avoiding failure; and whenever we fail, we also elude success. This relationship is important and must not be ignored.…
6 Wise Investments for Your Small Marketing Budget
If you own a small business or startup, you know how tight a marketing budget can be. There is no doubt that every dollar makes a difference when it comes to…
6 Reasons I’m Grateful My Dad Made Me Get a Job Every Summer
As soon as I could drive, I was told to make some money. My parents always emphasized school as my first priority, but my father believed we also needed to…
5 Regrets of a Failed Entrepreneur
Ninety percent of start-ups fail, some for reasons which were completely avoidable, others because of a lack of confidence, preparation or understanding of what was needed to be successful. I…
6 Rules for Influencing How Customers Will Review Your Brand
TripAdvisor has long been a destination for finding cheap flights, but this summer, it unveiled its biggest redesign in seven years when it introduced user reviews of airlines. The reviews will contribute to…
Want to Become More Disruptive With Your Startup? You Got 100 Days.
Companies struggle with deadlines for new product builds. It can take a long time to get everybody around the table agreed on a product — so much so that nobody…
The Keys Test: How to Determine If You Should Simplify Your New Business
The following excerpt is from Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood’s book Simplify. Successful simplifiers always come up with a new key, or keys, to unlock and transform a market. These…