Improving employee development is not as attractive as boosting sales or landing a new client, but it is an absolutely critical pillar of any business. Bettering your employee development is a long-term project, and you will not see success or results overnight. Even though improving employee development is a long-term project that doesn’t have all […]
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How You Can Impress Your Client with a Business Presentation
The first impression is the last impression. Time and again this saying has been proved to be right. The first few minutes of your presentation decides the fate of the meeting. During the first ten minutes, the clients decide whether you are worth paying any attention to or not. Of course, you would not want […]
Why Business Intelligence Is Key for Competitive Advantage [Infographic]
Adopting efficient Business Intelligence (BI) is critical if a business wants to stay head of the game in today’s competitive world. Our friends over at Boston University’s MS in Computer Information Systems Online Program put together the compelling infographic below that highlights the growth of BI and why it is the key to competitive advantage for enterprises today. Topics covered […]
Video Conference Features Your IT Team Should Be Using
When it comes to choosing a video conferencing solution that’s right for you, there are a number of factors you’ll have to consider. Here’s a look at some of them. Multi-Device Capability Flexibility is the name of the game. With the Bring Your Own Device to work trend and work from home set-ups, more and […]
Why Testing Outside Your Target Audience Is Good for Business
Written by: Lexie Lu We all know the first few steps of starting a business. First, you need to do market research to find a niche target audience. This audience has to have demands that your product or service can act as a solution to. You have to find out as much as you can about […]
A New Wave of HR Technology Is Disrupting the Market
As published to Entrepreneur There’s a pattern in the lifespan of human resources (HR) technology companies of the past two decades: they get gobbled up. The pioneering firms in HR technology from the late 1990’s to early 2000’s were mostly acquired by bigger enterprise companies in need of a few product parts. IBM acquired Kenexa, Oracle […]
Study: Pentaho Delivers Big Data Integration, Analytics (No Data Scientist Required)
As written for Technorati Business Intelligence for Broad Audiences Big Data is exploding right now, but its complexity and size can make it challenging to harness all of what this information can offer. Pentaho Business Analytics is a data integration and business analytics platform that brings together IT and business users to easily access, integrate, visualize […]
Making Data Cool: An Interview with Geoff Domoracki, CEO of DataWeek
Originally published on Technorati Anybody who’s anybody in and around the technology industry in Chicago knows aboutTechWeek. The mid-summer, week-long extravaganza has become a model of infusing visibility and notoriety to Chicago’s technology scene. Organizers of that event have created a new model: conferences that are more immersive, built around a sequence of “curriculum,” and […]