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Key Considerations: How SMBs Are Using Big Data and Insights to Get Ahead

Key Considerations: How SMBs Are Using Big Data and Insights to Get Ahead

By Laurie McCabe | Jul 19 2013

What factors do you need to assess in order to select a big data solution? This post examines the factors decision-makers view as make or break considerations to guide the analytics selection process for SMBs… Read More 

5 Ways CEOs can Strengthen Security in Today’s Mobile World

5 Ways CEOs can Strengthen Security in Today’s Mobile World

By Michael Boykin | Jul 19 2013

Today, across virtually every industry, the number of employees working on unsecured, personal mobile devices (cell phones, tablets, portable hard drives, USB flash drives, laptops, etc.) continues to rapidly increase. And maintaining business security in… Read More 

5 Tips for a Successful Contract Management Implementation (Part 1)

5 Tips for a Successful Contract Management Implementation (Part 1)

By Alex Gammelgard | Jul 15 2013

If you’ve decided to implement a contract lifecycle management (CLM) system in 2013, it’s important to take steps now to ensure system adoption and control project costs—because nothing is worse than implementing a contract management… Read More 

Puppies, Kittens, and Kids: Marketing to the Emotions

Puppies, Kittens, and Kids: Marketing to the Emotions

By Dr. Emily R. Coleman | Jul 15 2013

It is a truism in consumer marketing and advertising that putting puppies, kittens, or kids in an ad or on a product evokes an “aw” response. They automatically get attention. (Where would the Super Bowl… Read More 

4 Questions You Should Ask Your Next Supply Chain Management Vendor

4 Questions You Should Ask Your Next Supply Chain Management Vendor

By Greg Brady | Jul 12 2013

Today I want to give you the four key questions you should ask your next supply chain management vendor. Last year Gartner reported that companies that implemented demand-driven value networks grew revenue faster, achieved more… Read More 

Are Engineers Really That Good For Innovation?

Are Engineers Really That Good For Innovation?

By Stefan Lindegaard | Jul 11 2013

This is a slightly updated version of one of my first posts on this blog and when I published it in September 2009, it generated lots of comments as you can see below. Innovation has… Read More 

How Energy Storage Will Help Cleantech See More Green

How Energy Storage Will Help Cleantech See More Green

By John Papageorge | Jun 24 2013

This Arena whitepaper peers into the future of cleantech, providing revenue projections and analysis of technologies that will shape the industry — and mean more "green" ($$$) for your company. Whether you are a cleantech,… Read More 

Enough Virtualization and IaaS: Let's Focus on Business Users Now

Enough Virtualization and IaaS: Let's Focus on Business Users Now

By Maarten Ectors | Jun 21 2013

When the first television shows were made they used one camera to record a theatre play. It was only after some time that the real potential of the television became clear. Cloud Computing without multo-tenant… Read More 

New Ventures, Radical Innovation

New Ventures, Radical Innovation

By Stefan Lindegaard | Jun 20 2013

I was recently asked some good questions by a corporate innovator, who is looking into corporate business plan competitions and how to work with new ventures. You can read her questions below where I also… Read More 

Selling Blind: Turn the Lights On With Story Coaching

Selling Blind: Turn the Lights On With Story Coaching

By Michael Harris | Jun 20 2013

Salespeople are selling blind, because they are not being coached on customer knowledge. Without an accurate customer map, they can’t link their capabilities to their customer’s pain points. This results in lost sales, because customers… Read More