3 Signs That You Don’t Really Know Your Core Business
t. Here’s the problem: most business folks can’t properly identify their core. They think that determining your core is like determining how you take your coffee. But this is not…
Turn Your Organization into an Idea Factory: Part I
Up to 80 percent of an organization’s improvement potential could come from frontline employee ideas. However, the average employee suggestion box or idea program gets less than 10 percent…
Banking’s Biggest Hurdle: Its Own Strategy
The conventional wisdom within the banking industry about its troubles since the recent global financial crisis goes something like this: Rightly or wrongly, regulators imposed new rules that forced…
The Government and the IoT: New problems require new solutions
As time progresses, the Internet of Things (IoT) creeps further and further from our periphery and into our everyday lives. The government, usually the last to adopt any type…
Organizational Agility Entails Dual Innovation
In order to increase agility, should organizations aim to become more nimble across their existing structures or should they capitalize on separated units/ventures – such as innovation or digital labs…
Why You Need To Embrace DevOps Differently
Before you jump into DevOps understand what problems you are trying to solve, and whether you need to make a complete commitment to all of the elements or just…
6 Timeless Strategies That Drive Successful Entrepreneurship
In today’s ever changing business climate, an entrepreneur can easily become overwhelmed. It’s vital, though, to stay focused on your goals for the company. Even with a firm strategy in place,…
3 Steps to Designing a Killer Customer Experience
You see it all the time. A company has an amazing product and for some reason cannot market it properly to consumers, even though the product itself if extremely innovative,…
To Adapt, We Need To Evolve
When scientists decoded the human genome in 2001, they found something astounding. While our DNA provides the blueprint for everything about us—from how we develop in the womb to eye…
How to Protect Breakthrough Innovation
A company’s portfolio can generally be segmented into three types of innovation: incremental, adjacent, and breakthrough. Incremental innovations are minor improvements to existing products or small steps in to…
The 17 Rules These Entrepreneurs Say You Should Break in 2017
“Break the rule of perfection and focus on progress instead. When you obsess over every misstep or criticism, you become your own roadblock to growth.” — Ariel Kaye, founder and CEO,…
10 Executives Reveal the Biggest Money Mistakes Enterprises Make
Articles about finance abound; and most of them contain a wealth of wisdom. Unfortunately, though, few deal honestly with money mistakes businesses make at the enterprise level. And, ironically, that’s exactly where…
Measuring the Performance of Enterprise Architecture
Enterprise architecture teams often struggle with measuring and communicating the value of their function. We have implemented a set of simple and straight-forward performance indicators to address this problem. Do…
11 Important Things That Should Be on Every CEO’s Wish List
What does every new founder need? Dear Genie in a Bottle, I’m going to start a new company. Yes, Genie. I know I’m crazy. And, I know I only get…
International Institute for Analytics’ five analytics predictions
Prediction #1 Organizations will increase classification of cognitive tools across uses Tom Davenport Artificial intelligence technologies are not monolithic, Davenport said. IBM Watson, for example, is often thought of as…
Learn how to sustain innovation from social movements
Knowing your purpose Now let’s look again at businesses. The goal of most businesses is to solve a problem for a profit. Employees don’t work, create or innovate for you…
Decentralized IT Can Cause Duplication of Spending
The ongoing decentralization of IT management—fueled by increasingly empowered business departments that are holding tenure of some tech areas—is putting a aria on CIOs and their teams, according to a…
Business Transformation: Go Digital Or Go Home
The evidence is clear, digital transformation is the biggest driver in business today. Businesses that don’t embrace the journey will be left behind by competitors and customers. Great customer…
4 Ways Data-First Competitors Are Killing You
Data is the new oil. Those that figure out how to use it more effectively than their competitors are realizing significant, strategic benefits. But what’s so unique about data-first companies?…
This is the Biggest Reason to Put More Emphasis on Content Quality Over Quantity
For anyone working in digital marketing or online media, there’s a debate as old as the internet itself: content quality vs. quantity. With only a few exceptions, there’s a consensus…