The term “Internet of Things” (IoT) has become the catch-all for every device on the planet that can interact, react, or contribute to the greater network. From fitness wearables to smart refrigerators, we are gradually integrating our entire lives onto the web and the massive grid of interconnected devices. Today’s apps are tracking our heart health, caloric intake, daily activities, …
Social and Mobile Set To Inspire Workplace Transformation
Business has forever been a world of change. If we think of it – change has been the only constant factor given the proliferation of so many technologies since the last couple of decades. While change has occurred in all aspects, the workplace is where some of the most glaring transformations have taken place. Let’s take a look at two …
Welcome To The Human Data Center
It’s hard to believe but regardless of whether you are a boomer or a millennial, the average consumer spends almost 24 hours per week online. An entire day! Other than sleeping (for most of us), there may be nothing we do for more time in a given week than search, email, and browse the Internet. However, in a world …
Big Data: A New Type Of Marketing ROI
In November 2012 as we were heading into another national election, a relatively unknown blogger by the name of Nate Silver made a prediction. Based upon the information available to him, and everyone else, Silver believed that he could with tremendous accuracy predict not only who would win the United States Presidency, but he could guess state by state what the …
How Social Media Is Disrupting Communication
This article is the first of a 4 part follow up to the earlier published 4 Trends Transforming the Way We Communicate. The original article can be found here. Everybody on the planet would probably agree that the world’s youth are pervasive users of social media. The generation often referred to as the millennials embrace their social platforms and that is why …
Will Social Media And Business Video Intersect In The Future?
Perhaps it feels like it is already happening, but technology is slowly but surely taking over our lives. Did you know that more than 90% of smart phone users have their phone within arms reach 24 hours a day? Talk about problems with intimacy, we sleep with our cell phones closer than our mates. Now that may have something to …
Big Data Rocks CES And We Didn’t Even Know It!
Up and down the halls of CES, new and exciting items comprising “The Internet of Things” surround us. Tech geeks everywhere can rejoice as the next wave of tech we need, want and have no use for is brought to Las Vegas for human consumption. If there were one overarching theme for the show it would be that just about …
Wearable Tech: Commerce and the Human Data Center?
The annual CES show in Las Vegas always brings a lot of buzz. Any time well over 100,000 people touch down in the same city at the same time for one event, you know big things are happening. You would think I was talking about the Super Bowl? Las Vegas is safe from the NFL for now, but let’s just …
The Mobile Millennial Shifting Corporate Culture
For today’s knowledge worker, the ultimate technology euphoria is complete mobility and ubiquitous data access. Since we live in a knowledge economy, great work can happen anywhere. Mobility enables this. Place our teams around the world, give us access to cloud collaboration tools and we will asynchronously move business forward; meeting when we have to, but collaborating at all times. …
Social, Cloud, The Beatles and the Millennial CEO
It’s like the Beatles arriving in America all over again. A culture shift is upon us. The winds are changing, the boomers are aging, and the reigns of start-ups, small businesses and enterprises are slowly but surely being turned over to the Millennials. Much like when John, Paul, George and Ringo touched down in New York in 1964, there was some resistance at first, but …