The Uncertainty Problem
Business runs on certainty. Investors want predictable profits and will punish companies that vacillate up and down. Managers want accountable employees who they can trust to get things…
Talent, Design and Execution
A Perspective on Innovation from Football I like sporting analogies for business, especially football (soccer). Football is known as the beautiful game, not just because it is often…
Process robotics: The economics of digital labor shakes up outsourcing
The economics of process robotics promises to shake up the outsourcing sector, creating a new dialog among vendors, business executives and CIOs. Process robotics, also known as robotic process automation…
How to Avoid Becoming Digital Prey Through Digital Transformation
If one thing stands out about the current state of technology, it’s how fast things are changing. Robots, drones, 3D and 4D printing, the IoT, wearables and more are now…
What Digital CIOs Need to Succeed
What’s a disproportion between “yesterday’s CIO” and a modern-day digital one? Digital CIOs say a aloft form in a corporate house room, where house members have lifted their expectations of…
Transformation Is a No. 1 Priority for Modern CIOs
Today, businesses of all sizes, forms and industries are confronting a common challenge: digital transformation. Defined by MIT Sloan as “the use of record to radically urge opening or strech…
Do IT Certifications Really Matter?
Technical certifications can advance careers and lead to better pay, but they’re not a golden ticket to success. Information technology professionals may be able to boost their earning potential…
3 Characteristics Every Chief Data Officer Needs
Companies have been bringing chief data officers (CDOs) on board at a rapid rate. Interestingly, most of those tapped to fill the high-profile position did not rise through the…
The 1 Secret to Being a Truly Successful Leader
Few leadership mindsets are more important than a leader’s mindset of seeing yourself as a creator of creators. It starts with a firm belief in the amazing creation capability…
Want Better Employees? Play Yellow Submarine.
Ask any business owner and you’ll learn that our biggest challenge this year is not only finding good people but also (and more importantly) keeping them productive and profitable. How…
Speed is Key To Startup Success (Here’s How To Move Fast)
As the founder of a startup development studio, Coplex, there’s one major mistake I see inexperienced entrepreneurs make time and time again: moving too slowly. But the need for speed…
How Your Office Will Need to Adjust To Remote-Working Employees
There’s a radical shift in how people work, and you can see it at at corner coffee shop. More people are using laptops remotely than ever before, and some of…
Are You Risk Averse?
In the first part of this series, we introduced the three risk profiles we work with on a daily basis. Before we can even begin to suggest funding options for…
Ducks In A Row: Prepping for A Deep Dive Meeting With Investors
Whether you are working with your first investors, or trying to build out the syndicate for your round, once you make a successful pitch to an investor or group of…
Ways to Stay Focused and Avoid Too Many Ideas and No Execution
If you use these ten techniques, though, you’ll be able to stay focused and start executing when you have all those heads taking up too much space in your head.…
Innovation Needs Different Thinking Horizons
We often constrain our innovation because we ‘shoe horn’ any conceptual thinking into a given time, usually the yearly budgetary plan, so it dominates the actions decided and can…
The Legal Perspective on Wellness Programs
Bottom Line: Recent ADA-related challenges raise questions over corporate initiatives designed to improve employees’ health. In recent years, an increasing number of companies have begun to offer their employees a…
Enterprise augmented reality: AR applications are just around the bend
Productivity gains from AR applications While Pokémon GO may have been a wake-up call for many, some organizations were already hard at work and gaining significant productivity benefits from AR…
Efficiency is a key goal of platform business models
Platform business models generate value by bringing consumers and producers together — ideally in a way that is more efficient and qualitatively better than in the past. A platform…
How Better Planning From IT Can Prevent Problems
The infancy of IT managers’ departments are handling in a pell-mell state when it comes to IT use delivery, according to a new consult from TeamQuest and Kelton. The ensuing…