4 Myths About Innovation You Need To Avoid
. The ancient Greeks, for all of their centaurs, hydras and medusas, never had any stories of unicorns, they simply believed that some existed somewhere. Of course, nobody had ever…
Budget-Friendly Tips to Help You Disaster-Proof Your Finances
With the official start of hurricane season looming, and the ravages of Hurricane Harvey still wreaking untold damage in Texas, there’s a question I keep hearing: How can I protect myself and…
3 Edtech Trends to Watch in 2017
Technology in education is not new The coming years promise to be full of new companies, dramatic news cycles, unicorns, and IPOs. All of that can be said with a high degree of…
How Do You Get New Employees Invested in Your Mission as You Scale?
How do you learn how to scale your team across different cities while remaining true to your core and making someone truly believe your mission? On this episode of Resilience, Liz Rose Chmela, founder…
6 Dynamic Ways to Serve Your Clients
Client service, broadly defined, means supplying your customers with what they want, when they want it and how they want it, in a friendly and professional way. Client service is…
You Are Doing Analytics Wrong: Here Is Why
Analytics ROI often falls short because businesses overlook important parts of the process. Businesses across industries want to compete on insights, and yet many of them aren’t getting the ROI…
Many Citizen Developers Are Producing Custom Apps
With demand for custom apps soaring, the presence of citizen developers is expected to grow over the next two years, according to a recent survey from FileMaker. The accompanying report,…
Benefits of public cloud: Unilog's Google adoption
Unilog’s shift to the public cloud involves considerably more than obtaining a new place to park its IT infrastructure. The e-commerce company, based in Bangalore, India, with North American headquarters…
There Is a Right Way to Use Social Media For Your Business and Jump on Trends, Here’s How
Social media has been shaping the marketing landscape for online business owners for years–but it’s still a constantly evolving world where technological advances and shifting trends keep even the most social savvy entrepreneurs…
Why Your Office Space Should Be More Like a Casino
Casinos are known for creating an inviting atmosphere to maximize customer satisfaction, using everything from the layout of the gaming floor to the creative positioning of digital signage to boost…
Entrepreneur Stories of Struggle and Success: 7 Founders Tell All –
It’s never easy running the show, especially when you’re starting a new business. When I started Tailored Ink, I dealt with my fair share of struggles. Sometimes I was unprepared. Or…
Want Customers to Buy? Use These Tested Advertising Strategies That Actually Work.
Is a long subject line better than short? Do green envelopes do better around Christmas? Is a postcard enough copy? There’s no reason to guess! Instead, you can apply tested…
8 Tips for Setting Up a Killer Invoicing System That Always Gets You Paid
Asking your clients or customers to pay an invoice isn’t the highlight of the day for business owners. However, it’s an essential task that will make or break your business. That’s why…
It's Not Micromanaging If You Do It Without Killing Morale –
When we use the phrase “micromanaging” we’re usually visualizing a boss who should have their eyes on the big picture, but is fussing over small details. The term carries a…
The Forgotten Secret to DevOps Success: Measurement
Measuring the end-to-end DevOps value stream is the key to delivering value and tracking its ROI and allocating resources. The enterprise DevOps market is shaping up to be one of…
Find the Digital Skills Your Company Needs to Succeed
Reaching business goals, even surviving in an era of disruption, requires a tech-smart workforce. Today’s workplace is undergoing massive disruption, demographic shifts in workforce composition, employees with new and greater…
Why your KPI methodology should use 'right brain' words
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Despite the appeal of trendy technologies like artificial intelligence, one consultant is encouraging CIOs to go back to business intelligence basics and rethink their key performance indicator methodology.…
Many contours, many questions in developing a cloud strategy
Builder of a cloud future Jayapal Boompally, principal software engineer at biotech Amgen Inc., in Thousand Oaks, Calif., was interested in a role intended to burnish an organization’s cloud acumen:…
How Amazon Fuels Deflation
Last weekend, in Jackson Hole, Wyo., as they do every year, many of the world’s central bankers gathered to discuss vital economic matters that seize the attention of global markets.…
Liberate Your Team with Clearer Processes –
Ask the members of any team if they want to institute better processes, and be prepared for them to roll their eyes. “‘Better processes’ means ‘more bureaucracy,’” someone will mutter.…