Employee-Centered Leadership vs. Customer-Centered Leadership: Which Path Is...
Wouldn’t it be great if the interests of shareholders, employees, and customers interlocked perfectly? If the day an employee fell ill were the day your customer wasn’t planning to come in anyway, and...
View ArticleThe Guardian’s Chief Digital Officer On Going ‘Digital-First’
The task of converting old school business into the digital world will be championed by chief digital officers. By 2015, 25% of the large global organizations will have appointed chief digital officers...
View ArticleOvercoming the user engagement crisis with gamification
This article originally appeared on The Next WebDenis Duvauchelle is CEO and co-founder of Twoodo, helping your team organize itself using simple #hashtags. People today are bombarded with information,...
View ArticleJohn Jantsch: Why Sales Teams Must Have A Marketing Mindset
Both the marketing and sales world has changed over the past decade with the introduction of new tools and technologies. In order to learn more about this change and what people can do, I spoke to John...
View ArticleHow GitHub Can Detox Its Community
On Saturday, one of GitHub’s most influential women left the company because of what she termed “harassment.” See also: Influential Developer Julie Ann Horvath Quits GitHub, Charging 'Harassment' As...
View Article10 simple rules to make email (within teams) more efficient
This article originally appeared on The Next WebYou don’t need an interoffice communications manual to get people to communicate better. Just lead by example, and come up with some simple pointers to...
View ArticleStart small: 5 tips for building a successful niche marketplace
This article originally appeared on The Next WebLeigh Middleton is the CEO and Co-Founder Six3. A lot has been written about digital marketplaces – virtual spaces in which a market operates – and,...
View ArticlePayPal’s CTO On The Bumpy Road To A Comeback
As the saying goes, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," but resting on your laurels can backfire in today's innovation-hungry economy. Case in point: PayPal. Founded on the campus of Stanford University...
View Article3 myths about keeping your startup a secret
This article originally appeared on The Next Web This post originally appeared on the Clarity.fm blog and has been republished with permission. “Transparency” has become a buzzword in the startup...
View ArticleFailure Is The Key To Learning From Big Data
Just as the traditional sequential (and slow) “waterfall” approach to software development has started to fade into disrepute, a similar approach to Big Data analytics has surfaced. For too many...
View ArticleYour developers aren’t slow, your process is
This article originally appeared on The Next Web Justin Jackson is a Product Marketing Manager at Sprintly. This post originally appeared on the Sprintly blog. “Why didn’t we ship last week?” As...
View ArticleIs Big Data about data or processes?
I recently read an article by my colleague Steve Jones about collaboration. Data collaboration means that “disparate data sets are going to need to collaborate to produce a new outcome”. But from my...
View ArticleDesigning The Next Generation Cyber Security Operations Center
This post is written with Troels Oerting (@TroelsOerting), Group Chief Information Security and Trust Officer at Barclays, detailing the vision for the the next generation cyber security operations...
View Article4 ways CMOs can improve daily workflow
Do you ever feel like your daily routines are cumbersome and slow? Even as a marketing executive in a successful company, it’s quite common for there to be hindrances between you and optimal...
View ArticleOn the nature of ‘IT’ projects
IT projects versus business projects. Confusing the two is more common than you think…and the results are often disastrous. Unfortunately, most stakeholders –managers, end users and IT professionals...
View ArticleHow to integrate disruptive technologies into IT outsourcing contracts
In the era of digital disruption, the ability to successfully implement new technologies such as mobility, big data and analytics systems, cloud computing options, or robotics for competitive advantage...
View Article3 Ways To Survive When All Your Coworkers Are On Vacation
Year-end can either be filled with numerous out of office notices or a complete overload of work, depending upon what industry you work in. In many cases, workload slows down in December and employees...
View ArticleFour Questions To Turn Everyone In Your Company Into A Futurist
Keep asking the right questions, and you’ll be wrong about the future less often than your competitors. Remember what 1997 was like? How well? It was Amazon’s first full fiscal year. Microsoft’s...
View ArticleTaking advantage of cognitive procurement
A common theme in science fiction is robotics; robots and artificial intelligence (AI) have captured our imaginations, our hopes, and our fears time and time again. While it is obvious that robotics...
View ArticleA Croatian startup run by a veteran ex-Googler is trying to make deliveries...
LONDON — Imagine, for a second, that you run a delivery company. You need to make sure your fleet of couriers run as smoothly and efficiently as possible, without wasting time and taking the fastest...
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