Business Predictions That Won't Come True In 2013
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."—Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize-winning physicistIn these unstable times, it has become difficult to make predictions about what we can...
View Article10 Steps For Successfully Launching A New Product Or Service
Launching a new product or service isn't what is used to be. In the "good old days," you could hire a PR agency to craft a press release and set up a press tour. Before the big launch date, you would...
View ArticleWhen Does "Social" Just Mean Not Having To Talk To You?
Orlando may be the fun capital of the world, but last week it was also the social capital, thanks to the IBM Connect Conference. The conference was a classic IBM event with sessions like "Engage Users...
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The Most Influential SharePoint Experts In Europe
Ever heard of SharePoint? If you are like most people, the answer is probably not, which is surprising considering it is a vital part of the information technology infrastructure in almost 80% of the...
View ArticleIs Email A Scourge Or Merely A Scapegoat For Information Overload?
"We are being overloaded by a deluge of information coming from an increasing number of devices, which now include smartphones and tablet computers. New social applications are to blame, but the...
View ArticleCan Next-Generation Video Conferencing Change The Way We Communicate?
If you are like most business people, you probably spend a lot of hours in conference calls. Personally, I spend between 6-10 hours every week on these calls. That's approximately 400 hours a year....
View ArticleTips For Transitioning An Office-Based Company To Remote Work
Despite the recent Yahoo ban on working from home, many organizations are eager to reap the benefits of a remote workforce. But just as with any organizational change, getting started isn't easy, in...
View ArticleLoafing Online Can Be A Valuable Part Of A Productive Workday
With March Madness fading into April's baseball fever, this is a particularly opportune time to take stock of a new social concern: cyberloafing.Cyberloafing, also known as cyberslacking, occurs when...
View ArticleHow To Make Your Company Just As Productive Outside The Office
It's hard to pick up a (virtual) newspaper and not see an article about how our lives are going mobile for us as consumers as well as for us as workers. On the consumer front, most of us already use...
View ArticleAre You Ready For The New Mobile Reality?
About 800 top IT and business managers recently met in San Diego to attend the Gartner Portal, Content, and Collaboration Summit, organized by Gartner Research, a leading information technology...
View ArticleIs The Dream Of The Electric Car Headed To A Better Place?
Better Place, the revolutionary electric car company, is closing up shop. A May 26 company press release says:"Better Place Chief Executive Officer, Dan Cohen, said: 'This is a difficult day for all of...
View ArticleCan Activity Streams Save Us From Information Overload?
Email is the main cause of information overload at work today. It prevents us from being able to make good decisions and tackle important tasks according to priority. I used to believe this. In fact, I...
View ArticleHow To Defeat "Choice Overload," And De-Stress Vacation Planning
Barcelona, Orlando, or Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin?Where will you be going for your summer vacation? Still trying to figure it out? If planning a summer vacation is stressing you out—you are not alone.A...
View ArticleWhat The Anytime, Anywhere Workplace Really Means For Your Work, Life Balance
The recent E2 Conference in Boston was abuzz about our changing work, life balance, thanks to the widespread availability of smartphones and tablets.We all see this happening on a daily basis, but when...
View ArticleOnce Upon A Time At The Office: 10 Storytelling Tips To Help You Be More...
Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there was a salesman who traveled the countryside, peddling his wares. Everyone loved his product except the evil king, who wanted to do away with it. One day...
View ArticleHow Rogue Mobile Workers Are Putting Their Companies At Risk
Workers in the United States are putting themselves and their employers at risk by indiscriminately using nonsecure apps services on their mobile phones and tablets for work purposes. A prime example:...
View ArticleFour Lessons In Innovation From The Inventor Of The Laser
The path to invention and true innovation is rarely easy. And the story of how the laser (with its broad applications in medicine, communications, the military, commerce, industry) is ripe with...
View ArticleHow Red Robin Transformed Its Business With Yammer
In retail, it's common knowledge that front-line employees understand the customer experience far better than managers sitting in remote corporate offices.So why don't companies pay more attention to...
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How The Post-it Note Could Become The Latest Innovation Technology
In 1978, F.W. Lancaster, an information scientist from the University of Illinois, prophesied the dawn of a paperless society in his book Toward Paperless Information Systems. In the book, Lancaster...
View Article5 Ways You Can Use Accidents To Solve Your Problems
Dr. Lewis Thomas was stumped.A professor of Medicine at New York University during the 1950s, Thomas had been injecting enzymes into laboratory rabbits for years. Yet he continued to be amazed by the...
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