VMware Customers Cautious About vCloud Air, Ready For IBM
As VMworld 2016 opens in Las Vegas, customers already have sharp opinions on VMware’s commitment to the public cloud. However, these customers do like the company’s alliance with IBM. (Click…
Baton Rouge Flood Map: Using IT Know-How In Emergency Situations
The Department of Information Services in Baton Rouge used geographic information systems and data from 911 calls, search-and-rescue efforts, and more to create a map visualization of the impact of…
6 Reasons Hackathons Are Good For IT
Inviting developers to solve technical challenges can open organizations up to new ways of doing things. Here are 6 IT benefits of hosting a hackathon. Companies have a variety…
This Morning Routine will Save You 20 Hours A Week
The traditional 9-5 workday is poorly structured for high productivity. Perhaps when most work was physical labor, but not in the knowledge working world we now live in. Although this…
50 Quotes On The Importance and Benefits of Teamwork
50 Quotes On The Importance and Benefits of Teamwork Individual effort is important, but it’s teamwork that makes the dreamwork. Great leader are those who can make the sum of…
This Super Clever Strategy Will Win You Wild Success
Success means something different for everyone. For some, it means getting the promotion they’ve been wanting; for others, it’s about ditching corporate life and following an entrepreneurial dream. For some…
5 Technologies That Are About to Transform the World
With the year we’ve all had so far, it’s pretty easy to be pessimistic about the future. Between our sometimes farcical presidential race, racial tensions, terrorism, the loss of several…
What We Can Learn From Richard Branson’s Near-Death Experience
Richard Branson really does have nine lives. Earlier this week, the lauded Virgin Group founder was thrown from his bicycle and onto the road, sustaining injuries to his cheek, knee,…
5 Methods to Build and Maintain Your Competitive Edge
The recent outcry over Mylan’s decision to raise the price of its life-saving EpiPen injector brings up issues of corporate social responsibility, but also of establishing and maintaining competitive advantage that…
7 Science-Backed Habits of Creative Genuises
Even if you don’t think you’re the “creative type,” don’t assume you can ignore this skillset, or that you can’t become creative too. 60% of CEOs polled by IBM agreed…
Innovation Lessons from the Six Rules of Urban Planning
Anyone who has enjoyed a long walk through the pleasant streets of Greenwich Village in New York may have Jane Jacobs to thank. Among the most brilliant thinkers in…
What Makes a Country Innovative?
Innovation-led growth is no longer the prerogative of high-income countries alone. Middle-income countries are catching up fast, but they still need some crucial ingredients to compete. There is a common…
The Importance of Continuing Education for Digital Leaders
Whether you’re a newly minted MBA or an experienced leader, you’re always honing your skills and navigating change. And technology is one discipline in which you really can’t afford to…
Palmisano: Benefits and challenges of a platform-based business model
A platform-based business model — an approach that is characterized by a cloud-based common support system — is essential for competing in a global economy. That was the message from…
Hidden IT Security Risk: Privileged User Access
A Ponemon report finds the security threats around privileged user access and the resulting insider threat risks appear to be growing. Here’s what IT should be keeping an eye on.…
4 Ways Chief Data Officers Can Win Stakeholder Support
The role of a chief data officer increasingly makes its way into companies across the globe. But even as their ranks grow, CDOs often face resistance from colleagues who…
Microsoft, Red Hat Look To Steal VMware Customers
On the eve of VMworld 2016, VMware’s annual user group conference, Microsoft and Red Hat would like to wean some of the company’s customers to their offerings. (Click image for…
Should More Developers Set Strategy a C-Suite?
By Aaron Skonnard It wasn’t really prolonged ago that a surest trail to CEO was an MBA and a decade or some-more of operative in sales or finance. That’s still…
How To Crush Your Goals
For many of us, 2016 began with a promise–a promise that this year we will accomplish that which has eluded us. Often it’s the everyday things that prove most difficult–managing…
There Is A Major Downside To Having A Mobile Workforce
Mobile employees in the Middle East might be putting their companies at risk and exposing them to potential cyberattacks by overriding security policies and sharing data with mobile devices, a…