You May Be Part of a Global Supply Chain
Here’s how a lot of people think about global supply chains. Companies in the developed world, eager to source products and services in places where labor costs are low, have…
Machine Data Analytics Aids Big Data and IoT Efforts
Businesses must boost operational efficiencies enterprisewide if they want to keep up with rapid market and technology shifts. And many are investing in machine data analytics to do so, according…
Why Digitization Requires A New IT Operating Model
As enterprises advance in the world of digital business, the old project-based IT model is due for change. Digitization offers IT teams unprecedented opportunities to create value by becoming…
Is Outsourcing The Key To Data Analytics Success?
If the IT group isn’t up to the task of implementing analytics, it’s worth checking out the possibilities of outsourced analytics. Over the past several years, it has been…
Deloitte: These Emerging Technologies Will Play Critical Roles
Deloitte Consulting has published its eight annual report on the state of technology, calling the 2017 version, Tech Trends 2017: The Kinetic Enterprise. CTO Bill Briggs suggested in an…
5 Trends That Are Democratizing Financial Services
The financial services industry is often one of the hardest industries to disrupt. Consumers build a sense of trust and loyalty with their financial provider and will often continue that…
7 Things Christine Lagarde Said At The World Government Summit
Leaders need to be resilient in the age of economic shifts caused by Trump and Brexit, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund has said. US economy will see…
5 Outdated Marketing Strategies (and What to Do Instead)
Here are five time-honored marketing strategies that were once best practices but which now make a company look clueless and a bit silly. 1. Spokesmodels An oft-quoted maxim of…
Building Differentiating Capabilities for Innovation
We so often get caught up in the building of our capabilities. In some ways, I keep attempting to “peel the innovation onion” in explaining the need to focus…
Break the Innovation Barrier – Start Pretotyping!
What is Pretotyping? What’s the hardest part about creating a successful product or service? If you’re Elon Musk building rockets, it might be the product itself. But for us…
10 Principles of Strategy through Execution
Having a close link between strategy and execution is critically important. Your strategy is your promise to deliver value: the things you do for customers, now and in the…
How To Tackle Today’s Data Quality Challenges
If your data quality is suspect, your analytics program may also be doomed. Here’s a look at today’s data quality challenges and how to tackle them. Today’s information consumer is…
How Business Intelligence Is Being Disrupted for the Better
For years, business intelligence (BI) has been the industry standard for helping leadership gain visibility into business operations and make data-driven decisions. Many companies saw the analysis of their data…
Do University Incubators Harm Innovation?
There is scarcely a university in the western world today that doesn’t have some kind of facility to support students and academics who wish to create new companies around…
Promoting Innovations Through Operational Process Optimization
Striving to make your business the best is a natural desire for all of us. As a young woman entrepreneur, I believe that constant progress is the key to…
How Innovation Really Happens
When Alexander Fleming, a brilliant but sometimes careless scientist, returned to his lab after a summer holiday in 1928, he found his work ruined. A bacteria culture he had been growing…
Agile Development And The Red Line: At A Point Of No Return
We’ve reached a point of no return. In the cloud industry, a culture has been established where everyone thinks they must innovate and deliver new features. It’s not only…
Survey: Doubt On Security Tools, Spending
A major new survey by the Ponemon Institute has found that over two-thirds of IT managers and security managers polled found some of their organization’s existing security precautions either…
Hacks for the Entrepreneurial Minded
An entrepreneurial-minded individual is someone who is flexible, always hustling, value-oriented and driven to achieve success. Working for themselves, they make decisions on the fly and are prepared to pivot…
What a Decade of Innovation Teaches Us
Almost every new innovation activity seems destined to experience some, if not all, of the same challenges and traps that previous innovation programs encountered, so it behooves us to document…