Executive S&OP – Put it Front and Centre for Your Organisation
By Karin Bursa
Does your company have the right S&OP process in place?
These 5 steps to success allow you to assess trade-offs between many interdependent...
Turning Talent Data into Talent Intelligence
By Nik Kinley & Shlomo Ben-Hur
Talent management is built upon talent intelligence—the understanding that businesses have of the skills, expertise and qualities of their...
Predictive Analytics: New-generation Strategic Decision Support
By Tobias Klatt & Klaus Moeller
Environmental turbulence has be- come a key challenge for companies’ strategic planning. Planning results remain arbitrary and risky, and...
Flexibility to Improve Forecast Accuracy
By Karin Bursa
To succeed in a business economy shaped by uncertain demand and rapid market changes, companies must be able to sense and adapt...
‘Big Data’ vs. Quality Information: The Peculiarities of Information Markets
By Miklos Sarvary
Big data versus quality information
‘Big Data’ is the new buzzword of today’s business world. Management consultants, corporate strategists and IT executives...
Reimagining Enterprise IT for an Uncertain Future
By Jeanne G. Harris, Allan E. Alter, Stéphane J.G. Girod and Iris A. Junglas
The role of the information technology department is under scrutiny in...
Mobile Payments
By Christopher Coonen, EVP Global Solutions, Sales Marketing Strategy at Ingenico
Market Trends
The mobile technology market all over the world is booming, with consumer...
Gamifying E-Commerce: Gaming and Social-Networking Induced Loyalty
By Yasmin Razavi, Bernard Ho and Mark S. Fox
Introduction and Motivation
Customer loyalty has been an ongoing concern of retail companies and with the...
Business Process Excellence: A Prerequisite for Managing Big Data
By Karl-Heinz Streibich
The digitization of both the commercial and social worlds has blurred any boundaries separating them and is fundamentally changing the way we...
Patients Know Best
By Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
It was not until the 18th century that scientists accepted the existence of queen bees. Until that point they insisted that only...
Social Media Strategy: Learning from the Online Cola War
By Fang Liu and Willem Smit
The battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi1 has been one of the longest and most arduous in the history of...
Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace
By Ari Kaplan
The technological landscape has reshaped the way white collar workers cultivate and promote their businesses. This article offers insights on taking advantage...
Why You Need Digital Know-How –Why We All Need It
By Howard Rheingold
We’re in a period where the cutting edge of change has moved from the technology to the literacies made possible by the...
How the dot-CO domain opened the door to a new era of Internet innovation
By Kieren McCarthy
Taking on an industry titan is never easy. So it was with a small upstart domain extension hoping to challenge the dominance...
KYOCERA – a uniquely resource-efficient approach to product design
By Tracey Rawling Church
KYOCERA is a name that may not be familiar, but the company has quietly been designing and manufacturing resource efficient products...
Agility and Cloud Computing
By Michael Hugos
Success will go to those companies that combine business agility and cloud computing to continuously explore new opportunities. Attempts to pick winning...
Creating a Sustainable Society through Integrated Reporting Delivered via Cloud Computing
By Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles
A sustainable strategy is best reinforced through integrated reporting, a new management practice based on an integrated presentation...
Web 2.0 for B2Bs Strategic Brief
By Donna L. Hoffman
The LEAD model is both a guidepost for managing social media and also an early warning system so you don’t fall...
Five Styles of Business Analytics
By Mark Torr and Diane Hatcher
Whether you’re using one, two or all five business analytics approaches, the technologies are capable of much more than...
Understanding Cloud Computing Competition, Environment and Finance
By Federico Etro
Cloud computing allows firms to rent computing power and storage from cloud computing providers, and to pay on demand; this improves productivity...
Cloud computing and mobility: Adjusting in a New World – From Threat to Ally
By Christopher Clark
One of the most important CIO agenda items for 2012 is addressing and managing employee-owned mobile devices. This is where productivity, cost...
Redesigning Leadership: Design, Technology, Business + Life
By John Maeda and Becky Bermont
There is a simple saying in Japanese that epitomizes the nature of striving for excellence, “Ue ni wa ue...
How Electronic Document Interchange delivers the goods for FMCG businesses: a case study
By Ian Ford
In a business where timing and efficiency is critical, FirstB2B’s EDI solution handles a complex sequence of electronic messages effortlessly, ensuring things...
Understanding the Cost of Cloud: Cost analysis of In-house vs. Cloud-based Hosting Options
By Byung Chul Tak, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Anand Sivasubramaniam
Will cloud-based hosting be economically feasible for any given application if it migrated into the cloud?...
A Wise User Judges Each Internet Usage Scenario Carefully
By Dr. Richard Stallman
If the term “Cloud Computing” has any meaning, it can only be a certain attitude towards computing: an attitude of not...
Securing the Cloud
By Gareth Williams
Any cloud that relies on the public Internet for its connection is exposing its data to unnecessary risk. CIO’s and CTO’s are...
Understanding the Business Impacts of Cloud Computing
By Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters, Edgar Whitley and John Hindle
Cloud computing is already changing the way IT and business services are delivered and managed....
Why Europe’s head belongs in the Cloud
By Harry van Dorenmalen, Chairman, IBM Europe
The emergence of Cloud computing stands out as one of the key technological advances of the last 30...
Getting Face Time
By Andreas Wienold, EMEA VP at LifeSize
At a time when we’re overwhelmed by information via email, social media and other communication, face time still...
Nanomaterials-Moving towards stabilisation
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The nanomaterials industry (NMs) is slowly evolving, from producing a suite of innovative materials in Research and Development (R&D) to laying a basis whereby...
Social Technologies in the Enterprise – Rising to the Challenge
By Evgeny Kaganer, Sandra Sieber and Neil Hair
“What we are looking at is how to build a collaborative platform hooked into business automation software....
Hidden Needs Analysis: Creating Breakthrough Products
An Interview with Keith Goffin
The clear identification of customer needs is a fundamental part of successful innovation and most organizations aim to develop a...
Discover the Art of Real Road Driving Part II: Tip-tronic Gearboxes Explained
By Julian Smith
If you have a car with one of these tip-tronic gearboxes, do you know how to use it so as to get...
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Most executives have figured out how to create value for shareholders through experience, observation, and intuition. They’ve developed a wealth of personal wisdom that typically takes them...
From Cradle to Manager: Children’s Books as a Pathway to Build Emotional Intelligence and the Managerial Skillset.
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What makes a great leader? Can children be trained for leadership right from the cradle? In this article, Jason and Mary Sue Woldt explain how children´s books and...
