Creative Expedition at Auchan Superstores
the Creative Expedition process has been going on for some time now at Auchan. Context and objectives Creative Expedition process is part of Auchan’s participative innovation plan called Creative Attitude,…
3 Months in Virtual Reality, 6 Lessons Learned
by Patrick Willer I can vividly remember my first VR experience. It was 25 years ago! It was early 90’s. I was a teenager addicted to video games. When I…
Three Lessons from 9/11, 15 Years On
Everyone of a certain age has their 9/11 story. It is one of those searing events that one never forgets. Mine is one of a near miss. I was scheduled…
Digital Is About Cooperation, Not Ownership
Last week I attended a CIO event in New York. I was invited to participate in a lunch table discussion on digital transformation and its impact on the role of…
5 New Businesses You Can Invest Your Money in Today
When you have the cash — at retirement, for example — but can’t come up with a good business idea to put your money into, every business idea that comes around…
3 Reasons Former Inmates Make Great Entrepreneurs
Teaching entrepreneurship in prisons has three principal traits that can help tremendously when starting a business. 1. Fear of failure is much less of an issue. According to the most recent…
Warning: Don’t Let a Hot Product Kill Your Business
Nobody sets out to be a one-hit wonder. But too much focus on a hot product can distract a company from building the culture, operations and strategy it needs for…
Can White Papers Help Boost Your Business?
Many companies use white papers as a cleverly hidden marketing ploy. The idea is to write a document that doesn’t look so much like a sales piece, but looks more like…
3 Simple Strategies for Success When Money Is Scarce
This column is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur Coaching. Click here to learn more. Success in business depends on how well you can turn your resources into profits.…
7 Ways to Stay Top-of-Mind When It’s Time to Choose Who Gets Promoted
Staying stagnant in any career is not ideal. Have you noticed that once you have reached and found success at your current level that you naturally become curious about what…
How to Implement an IT Overhaul
Novelis is a leading producer of rolled aluminum, and a global leader in aluminum recycling. The company’s aluminum is used in everything from automobiles to architecture to beverage cans…
Twilio Courts IT Pros With Management Tools
By introducing enterprise management tools, Twilio aims to make it easier for large organizations to deploy cloud-based communication softwa IT organizations tempted by the prospect of deploying cloud communications…
What Does It Take To Be A Real IT Leader?
Elliot Luber is a visiting assistant professor of business, management, and leadership at SUNY Empire State College’s School for Graduate Studies. Here, he shares his views on what it…
Are You Making this Common Major Career Mistake?
There’s plenty to learn about personal branding. You can also find lessons about things successful people do to get that way. Far less often do people stop focusing so much on…
How to Successfully Curate a Great Online Reputation
Self-employed people, from real estate agents to Uber drivers, have long understood the importance of managing their online reputation. And whether they’re maintaining a website, a LinkedIn page, a Yelp…
Three Compelling Reasons Why You Need A Mentor
r Find the Jobs to your Zuckerberg. Apple and Facebook are the two biggest success stories of our times. Among other unique leadership traits of their respective founders, it…
Do This 1 Thing to Make Every Meeting More Productive (and End on Time)
Quick, take a look in your conference room. I’ll wait for a moment. See anything unusual in there? Something that might be hurting the productivity of your team or making…
The 7 Rules Confident People Follow
Have you ever noticed that some people seem inherently confident while others prefer to comfortably fade into the background? You might argue that confidence is all in our upbringing or…
The Rise of the Chief Ecosystem Officer
The New Leaders of Innovation in Health Overwhelmed by lifestyle- and age-driven burdens and suffering from diminishing resources, many health systems, care institutions, structures and practices are straining to…
What if We Listened to All of Our Stakeholders?
In his TED talk, Rev. Jeffrey Brown tells the story about the The Boston Miracle — a 29 consecutive month period of zero juvenile homicides. As I learned more about him and his…