The Supreme Court's recent ruling that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes represents a game-changer for healthcare and t...
With the multitude of social media sites, it's hard for businesses to determine where they should be allocating their time and resources. And since ma...
When I say "visual communications," you might think I'm referring to video conferencing, which has been around for a long time and is most often used ...
Many of today's companies are competing on price and have razor thin margins on their products. As a result, they've commoditized their product and ha...
Executives at Pratt & Whitney, one of the largest jet engine manufacturers in the world, were facing several major problems that were proving to b...
Have you heard about 3D web yet? Notice I didn't say 3D television where you have to wear those special glasses. I'm referring to browsing the Interne...
We're starting to see that any company's competitive advantage is increasingly determined by the quality of the data they have and how they're using t...
Big data in and of itself doesn't do a company much good. The key is to couple that data with high-speed data analytics in order to be able to make re...
When we hear the phrase "big data," we have to ask ourselves, "How big is big? What are we really talking about?" Let's take one of the largest retai...
On April 2, 2013, President Obama introduced The BRAIN initiative, in which the word "BRAIN" stands for Brain Research through Advanced Innovative Neu...
However "big" you're thinking right now, it's probably too small. It's important to have big dreams for your future. After all, failing to plan is pl...
When we give people advice or answer their questions, we often have to sell them on the answer. Think about it in your own family. When a child asks y...
In every organization worldwide, there is an unspoken war between the young and the old. The younger workers look at the older ones and think, "They j...
Are you becoming increasingly irrelevant in the eyes of your employer or the marketplace because your education and training has not been keeping up w...
As technology continues to impact our lives, workers in today's ever-changing labor market need to be prepared with skills to adapt and succeed in the...
Technology takes away jobs. But it also creates jobs. For example, Southern California Edison recently finished installing all their electronic meter...
According to the Associated Press, 50% of the 7.5 million jobs that were lost in the United States during the recent great recession were mid-pay, mid...
Want an easy way to reach your target buyers? Joining or forming an electronic community of interest may be just what you need. What is an electronic...
Two types of online communities exist: communities of interest and communities of practice. A community of interest may be people who love dogs, sail...
Every profession has both a science and an art. The science can be taught, and people can be equally good at the science of any profession. The key to...
Whenever there is a major change in platform, the leaders of the old platform are seldom the leaders of the new platform. For example, at one time, th...
Social media is different than static media, in that social media is a two-way, dynamic communication that builds relationship and engagement. The key...
Most issues have two sides. Getting both sides to come to agreement on any issue is not always easy, especially when it comes to gun control. But in l...
It's easy to predict that with the explosive growth of people buying smart phones and tablets, we're going to see mobility have an increasing and prof...
When Apple launched their first iPhone in 2007, one of the comments from the CEO of Research in Motion (the company that created the Blackberry) was, ...
