According to a recent article in Forbes, 84 percent of all business respondents say AI will enable them to obtain or sustain a competitive advantage. Around 83 percent believe AI is a strategic priority for their businesses today. Over 80 percent – that leaves less than 20 percent of businesses not seeing the inherent value […]
Saas: Software as a Service. It’s a trend that’s getting an incredible amount of action lately, but there’s a significant amount of confusion around exactly what the phrase means. Is it a business model? Is it an industry? Is it something software businesses do? Realistically, only one of these categories is true: SaaS is, in […]
Business or management consulting: it’s one of America’s most rapidly-growing industries. As more entrepreneurs step up to the table with ingenious new startup ideas, the need for solid advice and guidance is becoming higher than ever. The value of reliable advice is rising, too. Without it, many businesses would be doomed to follow statistical patterns, […]
Planning: it’s easily the single-most important factor of business, especially in manufacturing. Plan successfully for every project to enjoy higher success rates, improved efficiency, and easier adaptation in the face of variables outside of your control. Fail to plan at all and you will certainly pay for it – often with extreme financial harm and […]
Storytelling has been an integral part of human existence for as long as humans have existed. It’s how we preserve our history, share our lore, and and pass important lessons down to the people who out survive us. Most people can agree that without storytelling, humanity would simply not be where it is today. “Okay,” […]
It’s typical for the handful of people in your startup to wear many hats. Grouping together similar tasks for each person to handle simplifies the workload for everyone and makes life a little more comfortable when you’re thin on human resources. These types of practices are useful and relevant when there are fewer contracts for […]
It sounds like a dream at first: work from home, lounge in your pajamas, get more done. That reality is something businesses are slowly discovering, as they allow more and more workers to connect and work from home. Whether or not that’s effective, however, is another story! Significant research over the last few years paints […]
“Disruption takes a left turn by literally uprooting and changing how we think, behave, do business, learn and go about our day-to-day.” This quote, pulled from a Forbes article written by Carolyn Howard, sums up the heart and soul of disruption, one of the most quickly-growing development strategies to date. We see it all the […]
Business owners (and for that matter, many of their top executives) are skilled in running a business, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they specialize in everything at the same time. An individual may be adept at hiring staff, handling financials, setting goals, motivating a team, or even assessing top-heavy business structure, but that doesn’t mean […]
Data: no matter what industry you’re in, it’s the single-most important source of information you have. Through data, we determine who to hire, where to allocate resources, what’s working, and what’s failing so we can adapt, change, and move into the future with a positive outlook. But it isn’t just the hard data that matters; […]