Smartphones are becoming an all-in-one gadget that initially started off making calls and sending texts, and now have evolved into our livelihoods. Phones are now tackling another frontier and becoming our wallets, says the LA Times. The smartphone is replacing the credit card and cash as a preferred method of payment, and by 2016 there ...

We don’t always get around to doing those things we know are good for us… whether it’s exercise, getting enough sleep, taking that holiday, or eating healthy. The same thing goes for emergency planning and things like creating a disaster recovery plan if you’re an IT administrator. We know that our business needs one, but ...

Let’s take a quick look at the attention grabbing headline that was issued for maximum publicity rather than maximum fact: Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook’s HTML5 app “one of the biggest mistakes if not the biggest strategic mistake that we made.” Before you stop reading (and thinking), let’s look at what else he said in the ...

Co-Written by Ben T. Smith IV, CEO of ShopCo Holdings and Victor Belfor . Have you ever seen the startup competitions and investment panels, such as those run by the VC TaskForce, JumpStartDays and the SVForum? These events are designed for early stage startup founders to sharpen the pitch and practice speaking about their companies to ...

Today’s employees are using social technologies in their personal life, and aren’t expecting anything less in their professional life. This bottom-up approach is pushing organizations to revisit their internal collaboration systems and policies. At the top, the C-suite sees the move towards a social enterprise as an opportunity to increase innovation and improve efficiencies. As ...

By Rodney J. Rogers – CEO of VirtuStream– @rjrogers87   I really hate most large institutionalized conferences. Yes, I get the networking dynamic and the exposure to new products and services, however, I think on a net basis the general productivity loss (at least for service providers) trumps the upside. It’s simple: Too many sellers, too ...

Those of us who manage project teams know the value of predictable, repeatable, and high-quality project execution. When we don’t meet that bar, a cascade of side effects occurs, ranging from poor team morale to a loss of faith in our abilities by stakeholders, clients, and management.  If your team is struggling to consistently achieve ...

Today in the United States, 7,214 people will die. And again tomorrow, and the next day and so on. That’s 300 deaths per hour, 5 per minute, and just under 1 per second. In 1990, we saw 5,700 deaths per day. That’s an increase of almost 27% over 22 years. Something else was a bit ...

We live in interesting times. Like most people in the world I know what it’s like to have received a poor customer experience from a large company and to feel powerless in receiving a positive outcome.  Traditionally, the balance of power in the customer-company relationship has been firmly in the hands of business and, like ...

Remember the days when tech-support told you to ‘defrag’ your PC when RAM was low causing your desktop to take far too long to boot-up and run applications? Remember how long that process would take? You, like me, probably had to leave the PC running overnight to complete the process. Good news is those days ...