For most retailers the idea of digital signage leads to two things: 1) Lots of interest because consumers expect technology as part of their shopping experience. 2) Discomfort due to the struggle to measure the return on investment. For companies selling digital signage, it is about moving a product and service to help our clients meet a need, however with so much growth …
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 …
Why Small Brands Need Big Data
For Business Big And Small, Big Data Is A Big Deal Did you know that 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past 2 years? Moreover, every minute on the internet there are more than 2,000,000 Google searches, 685,000 Facebook updates, 200 million sent emails and 48 hours worth of video uploaded to YouTube. Not in a day …
Watson May End Search As We Know It? #IBMPWLC
Just Google It…Everyone Else Does Right now when we want to know more about something, anything, we Google it; this isn’t an exception, this is the rule. In fact, 74% of the entire population turns to Google to start their information finding efforts. This trend has been on the rise for sometime and as we have become more dependent on …
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 …
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. …
BYOD: The Good, The Bad And So Much More
When it comes to the next wave of Unified Communication platforms, to bring, or not to bring…that has become the question. To bring what you ask? To bring your own device, that is. Businesses and technology buyers everywhere are asking themselves this right now. With pressure mounting as CEOs and front line sales alike are looking to use their favorite …
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 …
5 Business Benefits of Telecommuting
When Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer banned telecommuting for her employees back in March, the decision stirred a vigorous debate throughout the InterWebs about the validity of businesses everywhere letting their employees work from home. The way I see it, telecommuting can boost the personal and professional productivity for any organization’s employees, not to mention that the more widely it …
8 Technologies That Comprise Unified Communications
The ability for businesses to communicate more efficiently on virtually any device is the catalyst for faster more connected organizations. Today I wanted to share this post with this great community of business leaders and aspiring leaders to help you all better understand the future of business communication. And in case you are wondering, when I say the future, I …