What it Takes to Be a Growth Hacker
For companies looking to grow, a solid growth hacker can easily be mistaken for a superhero. With new traction channels through social media, video and content popping up all the time,…
6 Meeting Behaviors That Offend Your Boss and Alienate Your Team
No matter how hard you work, often you make the biggest impression during office staff meetings. There, surrounded by coworkers and supervisors, you have the opportunity to show your commitment…
The Future Of Leadership And Management In The 21st-Century Organization
In slower moving and less complex business environments the old hierarchical model that depended mostly on only a few people at the top for leadership simply doesn’t work anymore. In…
Employees Are Most Productive When Given 1 Thing (No, Not More Money)
What do successful companies like Zappos, Pandora, Glassdoor, and Menlo Innovations have in common? Based on extensive Wordblu research, they have made what I’m about to expound on your cerebral…
Rapid Tech Change Challenges IT Leaders
Agility is the name of the game for today’s IT organizations, but keeping up with the rapid pace of change is difficult. We explain what’s holding IT back. Faster technology…
There Are 3 Key Performance Indicators For Innovation
Part of the problem with innovating is that it is hard to measure your success. Many groups will work for a long time struggling to develop new ideas, refine them,…
Boost Innovation with Rotation and Consultants
Boost Innovation Organizations all need improved revenue and/or profits and lower costs—perhaps by an improved process; and innovation is a key element here and everywhere, especially in the workplace.…
How to Tell If Innovation Matters to Your CEO
The new article Unleashing the power of Innovation was recently published and surveyed approximately 250 senior executives about innovation. While interesting, there’s not a lot “new” in the survey, and…
Significant Shift in the Innovation Consulting World?
It always catches you by surprise when one of the leading players within the innovation space makes a change. In this case, Innosight has been acquired by Huron, a…
Smart city projects have CIOs on the hunt for new business models
Beyond the pilot Jennifer Belissent Smart city pilot projects provide an opportunity for city CIOs to give the new technology a test drive and pin down the ROI, if one…
How 5G wireless technology will dazzle, confuse and be of use for CIOs
No 5G standard, mass adoption ‘years away’ For starters, while work on 5G has been going on since at least 2012, there currently is no standard for 5G deployments, and the industry…
4 Steps to Getting the Most Out of Consultants
There are many benefits to hiring an external consultant across almost any vertical — be it sales, marketing, programming or business strategy, bringing in specialists can be an important step in overcoming…
Storytelling for Product Management and Innovation
Who doesn’t love a good story? Apparently, most of us do as they are the heart of any effective marketing message. A good example is the iPhone television…
Disrupting 21st Century Corporate Learning
Having been in the corporate learning and development space now for more than 25 years, it’s been really useful to invest time immersing myself in researching recent developments and…
Agility, Databases Support Digital Transformation
Databases are vital to digital transformation, according to a new survey from NuoDB, “Benchmarking Strategic Technology Initiatives with Software Companies,” and agility is also essential. As the software industry transitions…
How to Avoid Big Data Mistakes
If data is important to your company, then creating a data governance program is as essential to the business as an accounting program. Looking for a way to keep your…
5 Ways to Grow Your Business in 2017
1. Create a content strategy with one bullet point. In the article, How Donald Trump and Science Can Help Your Content Convert More Leads and Sales, I discuss and explain that…
Customers Or Investors: Who Do You Love More?
Every founder has a daily struggle on how to allocate his or her time. Is this you? We can work on developing our product or fine-tuning that Facebook campaign. We…
Change Management and the Structure of Innovation
Often innovation is cast in the minds as a pure product related process. Apple’s iPod to iPhone to iPad, for example, is, perhaps, a perfect reflection of how most…
Why Augmented Reality Will Be the Next Revolution in Retail
In the summer of 2016, pedestrians on New York’s Fifth Avenue encountered crowds of (mostly young) people, hastily running into Central Park, smartphones in hand, shouting out Pokémon names…