3 Ways You Can Lead Like Wonder Woman
In a pivotal scene of the movie Wonder Woman, where the titular character faces an army for the first time, spy-for-the-good-guys Trevor says he would not let her risk her life. “I will fight for those…
July Is Just Early Enough to Start Planning for Holiday Selling
It’s never too early for retailers to start planning for the holiday season. Those times are already stressful considering they’ve got to figure out the inventory to hold and buy,…
5 Ways to Make Your Customers Say ‘WOW’
Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » Before you dive in, ask yourself…
4 Distractions You Must Stop Stressing Over If You Want to Succeed
The entrepreneur journey is one of the most rewarding experiences in life. However, anyone who tells you that following your passion and working four hours a week is all it takes,…
Watch Out! These 4 HR Tool Mistakes Will Cost You.
When you’re a small business, choosing HR tools is a more demanding and difficult task than it is for a huge corporation, which can draw upon dedicated, more expensive, resources.…
Medical Entrepreneurship Is Not Just for Big Pharma
When you think of medical technology, Big Pharma comes to mind — conglomerates and public traded companies that spend billions of dollars developing drugs and devices to use in the…
Want to Stand Out in a Journalist’s Crowded Inbox? There’s an App for That.
No matter how much the world changes or how much we advance, one fact will remain unchanged: Stories sell. And when you tell those stories to large audiences of the…
Want to Drive Growth? Improve Customer Support.
Find out how to optimize your website to give your customers experiences that will have the biggest ROI for your business. Register Now » If you’ve sensed that customers expect…
The Small Business Guide to Thriving in the Amazon-Whole Foods Era
This June, Amazon triggered a tidal wave after announcing its plans to break into the $800 billion food and beverage industry with its purchase of Whole Foods. But, to the…
Have We Reached Collaboration Conflict? Time for Glue
A swarm of collaboration tools in the typical enterprise presents challenges such as data silos and tool overload for managers. The solution just might be more, but better, tools. Driven…
What Analytics Pros Need to Know about GDPR
Understanding the EU’s GDPR guidelines is valuable knowledge for anyone in a data related profession. Analytics experts beware, the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may require significant…
Digital Transformation Myths and How They Hold You Back
Most companies have learned that digital transformation isn’t easy, and often the challenges appear when they try to do to much too fast. The term “digital transformation” has a nice…
What Billy Joel Can Teach Us About AI
At first blush, the aging pop star Billy Joel wouldn’t seem to have much to tell us about automation and the future of work. His main contribution to forecasting was…
The Next Big Technology Could Be Nanomaterials
Illustration When 3M introduced Scotch tape in 1930, at the start of the Great Depression, it was a remarkably apt product for a scrimping and saving population — and an…
The Rock’n’Roll of Business (Part One)
Brand Essence (Part one of three) Like famous musicians, effective brands maintain a certain sway over those who come into contact with them, a sense of awe and authority that…
Top 20 Innovation Articles of January 2017
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish…
Here’s How The MENA Social Enterprise Is Finally Coming Of Age
Since the Grameen-Jameel Microfinance Fund launched in 2003—often considered the Middle East’s first social business—thousands of social enterprises have emerged in the region, as several aspiring entrepreneurs seek to tackle…
500 Startups Backs An Egyptian Startup Making Entrepreneurs Out Of Stay-at-Home Women
Cairo-based online home-made food platform Mumm has received an investment worth $200,000 from Mountain View, California-based early-stage venture fund and seed accelerator 500 Startups. Mumm was one of the nine…
You Can Rework Company Culture. Start by Reworking Your Office
Variations of the maxim ″culture eats strategy for breakfast″ have shown up in business journals for decades, usually attributed to a high-profile CEO. In truth, culture and strategy feed each other, but…
Who Should Adopt Artificial Intelligence Marketing Technology Now?
Daniel Faggella is an Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) member in San Francisco and founder of TechEmergence, an artificial intelligence market research firm. We asked him which businesses will benefit most from adopting AI marketing…