4 Tips for Expanding Your Business Globally
The dream of every small business is to grow beyond your own shores, but it comes with many challenges. Not only will you face language barriers and time differences, but your…
The Real Secret To Constant Innovation Momentum For Your Business
There is no putting your head down while swimming in the constant changing tides of business innovation. That moment you put your head down to zero in on growing what you’ve…
The 4 Biggest Challenges Of Running A Values-Based Company
What are the challenges of running a values-based company? All values flow from the top. Whether intentional or not, the beat everyone marches to comes from the person with absolute…
6 Tangible Steps to Launch an MVP Product
Ever had that feeling of not knowing where to start? For writers, it’s called writer’s block. Painters call it blank-canvas syndrome. Entrepreneurs refer to this phenomenon as analysis paralysis, an affliction all founders…
How Google Innovates
What makes Google (now officially known as Alphabet) different from Apple, IBM and Facebook innovations is that it doesn’t rely on any one strategy, but deploys a number of them…
IT priorities 2017: A mix of forward-looking and traditional tech
Planning for 2017 Regardless of where IT professionals are currently devoting their time and efforts, most shops have a slate of new initiatives planned for 2017, mingling forward-looking technologies with…
Top 10 Must Have Self-Service BI Governance Capabilities
If self-service business intelligence initiatives are on your agenda, follow these 10 best practices for ensuring proper governance. Although self-service BI solutions have come a long way and…
3 Ways to Stop Taking Your Most Loyal Customers for Granted
If you take your most devoted customers for granted, you’re losing an enormous opportunity. When it comes to driving sales, few things are more important than building loyalty. Rewarding the…
4 Ways Small Businesses Can Compete Against the Major Competitors
4 effective marketing strategies for SMB’s against bigger competitors. 1. Niche down Small businesses need to go laser focused on a chosen market segment. I am talking hyper focused, zeroed down…
Product Management Should Be At The Core Of Every Company
At the heart of product management is the ability to discover the customers’ pain and then leading the way in solving that pain in the best way possible. In…
9 Small-Business Trends That Should Be on Every Entrepreneur’s Radar
If it seems like 2016 was a booming year for small business, it’s because more entrepreneurs are going into business and staying in business. In fact, the survival rate for…
Purchasing A Business: Why A Smooth Transition Of Ownership Is Critical
Most buyers understand that investing in the right small business requires a thorough due diligence process. However, there’s much more to evaluating a potential purchase beyond assessing the company’s cash…
Guiding Principles For Closing The Cloud Gap
The portion of your IT portfolio that hasn’t yet moved to the cloud represents your “cloud gap.” In today’s IT organization, the cloud permeates everything. Its ability to affect…
3 Signs Your Business is Ready to Expand Internationally
Expanding your business internationally is never an easy endeavor, but it’s often a necessary next step in growing your customer base and increasing revenue. If you’re confident in your product…
How Strategy Talk Creates Value
Traditionally, CEO strategy presentations are derided as little more than “cheap talk.” After all, it doesn’t cost much to rent out that conference room, set up the video link,…
What A Chief Analytics Officer Really Does
There has been plenty of talk about the need for a chief analytics officer or chief data officer. But do you ever wonder what they do for a living?…
Your Big Data Strategy Needs DevOps
Many big data analytics teams choose to not use DevOps methodologies, but there are real benefits to applying DevOps concepts to those big data initiatives. Extracting accurate and…
Two Factors For Change Management Success
Long-term thinking is a vital element of effective change leadership. For change to pay off, a leader must have grit and a desire to see change through to the…
How to monetize data with the Agile business process
Companies that want to commercialize their data — or those that want to create a data-driven solution using data from another source — should use an Agile lifecycle process, Stratigos…
‘Unbounded IT’ Draws On Internal, External Resources
Deloitte Consulting report on the future of IT sees ‘Unbound IT’ aligned with the ‘kinetic enterprise’ and able to tap external tech resources. The enterprise must become more flexible…