Ayn Rand’s Advice for Conquering Writer’s Block
More than a hundred years ago, a nine-year-old girl in Russia named Alissa Rosenbaum decided she wanted to become a writer. After defecting to the US from the Soviet Union…
Innovation and Bridging the Generational Divide
How to Fine-Tune Working Relationships between Boomers and Millennials to Create Harmonious Innovation Teams The innovation book Robert’s Rules of Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival lays out…
Traditional vs Agile Project Management for Innovators
Which is the superior approach to project management, Waterfall or Agile? After talking with an expert on project management, I learned that’s not the right question. Instead, we should…
Mobile app development skills: How to meet enterprise demand
Hybrid strategy to meet demand, acquire skills The high demand for mobile app development skills is driving up the cost of talent. In the Robert Half Technology 2016 Salary Guide,…
Malicious Insiders Are a Very Real Threat
Just when you thought cyber-security news couldn’t get any worse, it does. Although organizations are now spending somewhere around $20 billion a year on tools and technologies to combat online crooks and…
What It Means To Be A Data Scientist
“Data scientist” is often used as a blanket title to describe jobs that are drastically different. Here are four types of data science jobs: A Data Scientist is a Data…
IT Asset Protection: How One Colocation Provider Does It
After providing computing infrastructure and the power to run it, data centers have to prioritize security. Without security, a data center is a data breach, and that’s not an…
Customer Experience Advantage
Why customer experience is important Higher customer referral rates and customer satisfaction were reported by a study of 860 corporate executives who increased their investment in customer experience (Strativity Group,…
Here Are Mark Zuckerberg’s Thoughts On Entrepreneurship
Here are some of the pearls of wisdom Zuckerberg shared: Where to start “I always think that you should start with the problem that you’re trying to solve in…
8 Ways to Maintain Incredible Focus in a Crazy Workspace
8 Ways to Maintain Incredible Focus in a Crazy Workspace Turn your back to doors and hallways. How can I concentrate in a noisy place? Prepare a few…
The Best Customer Experience That Creates Your Data
The Best Customer Experience That Creates Your Data Remembering that business is ultimately about the people you serve. For pilots, instrument rating puts them a level above a typical private…
How to Create a Successful Budget Social Media Strategy
Oftentimes when I’m discussing startup strategy with founders, the conversation often goes into how they plan to successfully get out there in the world with no budget and very little…
Danger is the Early Warning Sign of Opportunity
Competitive intelligence comprises the actions of defining, gathering, analyzing and distributing intelligence about innovation, customers, competitors, government actions, and any other aspects of the marketplace to enable more effective decision-making.…
Consulting Industry Caught in the Crossfire
Consultants are continuously analyzing and forecasting trends for an array of industries, but what does the consulting industry forecast for itself? Many of the trends affecting other industries are now…
Latest Gartner ranking: Who’s winning the cloud wars
AWS, Azure, Google: Best vs. ‘best for me’ One thing to consider is the scores themselves. Compare them to the Gartner ranking in 2015, and AWS went down four percentage…
13 Ways Machine Learning Can Steer You Wrong
Succeeding in today’s fast-paced business economy requires companies to harness data quickly and at scale. As the volume, velocity, and variety of data increase, it’s becoming necessary to use machine…
Current Trends and Challenges Impacting Contact Centres
Contact centres have undergone an irreversible evolution over the last decade. Digital contact – in the form of email, web chat, social media, and self-service channels – continues its explosive…
Changing Process of Innovation
As complexity increases, managing change and innovation becomes increasingly difficult. Despite (or because of) easy availability of information, the ability to project future outcomes has moved from an environment of…
10 IT risk management issues that are often overlooked
CIOs spend hours reviewing risk management. Common review areas are disaster recovery and business continuation, security and data breaches, and possibly the financial viability of certain technology strategies. But beneath…
5 Tips for Learning Coding (With no Prior Experience)
At a time when certain job professions are withering away at the hands of technology and automation, there’s one skill set that continues to be more in demand than ever…