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5 Reasons Companies Should Forget About Radical Innovation
By Stefan Lindegaard | Jul 17 2013
Radical innovation is too difficult for most companies and they should play it safer when it comes to innovation. You can read why I think so below – and you can get a few ideas… Read More
5 Lessons Learned on Launching a Software Product
By Alison Meier | Jul 16 2013
If you’ve followed any of my LiquidPlanner blog posts, then you know the majority of my experience focuses on project management in an IT environment. Opportunities for software solutions are everywhere, you just need to… Read More
Big Data Apps and Big Data PaaS
By Maarten Ectors | Jul 16 2013
Enterprises no longer have a lack of data. Data can be obtained from everywhere. The hard part is to convert data into valuable information that can trigger positive actions. The problem is that you need… Read More
What’s the Deal with Green or Sustainable Manufacturing Software?
By Kristin Crosier | Jul 12 2013
Dubbed green or sustainable manufacturing, the lean manufacturing trend to improve design and production processes is gaining momentum in part because it benefits the business owner as much as, if not more than, the environment.… Read More
Seeing the Light: How SMBs Are Using Big Data and Insights to Get Ahead
By Laurie McCabe | Jul 12 2013
At a time when big data information is proliferating at an unprecedented rate, companies that effectively gather, create and use business intelligence can gain dramatic market advantages over those that don’t. Read More
Infographic: 4 Lessons in Project Management from the Renaissance
By Alison Meier | Jul 11 2013
Today’s projects don’t typically take 120 years to finish, and leadership doesn’t usually come in the form of a royal couple whose organization is a European country. But that was the Renaissance in project management… Read More
Customer Surveys are Great. Unless you Ask The Wrong Questions
By Francis Moran | Jul 10 2013
The chief technology officer of a company for which I occasionally do some work dug into his archives this past week and came up with a customer survey that was administered when this company was… Read More
The Subtle Braggart: How to Promote Yourself at Work
By Alison Meier | Jul 09 2013
How do you promote the good work you do without pounding your chest? Project managers, and any of us with career aspirations, have to find ways to let our bosses know what we're doing and… Read More
Is Social Media Damaging Your Brand?
By Ernan Roman | Jul 08 2013
If you are not allocating time for brand reputation management, you will never fully know what your customers are saying to you–and more damaging, saying about you to others. The lesson for all businesses is… Read More
House Renos and the Art of Customer Service
By Francis Moran | Jul 05 2013
Customer service is based on what I have come to call my first law of competitive differentiation, the proposition that, in an age when almost any technological or cost advantage will rapidly and inevitably be… Read More