The buzz: “The future is not what it used to be” (Laura Riding & Robert Graves, 1937). Welcome to 2019! If your #1 business wish is knowing what the year holds for your company, your industry and the world, stay tuned. Today,...
The buzz: “I am interested in the future because I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future” (C.F. Kettering). If your #1 business wish this holiday is knowing what 2019 holds for your company, your industry and the ...
The buzz: The future is not what it used to be Laura Riding and Robert Graves, 1937. Good news! If your number 1 business wish this holiday season is knowing what 2019 holds for your company, your industry and the world, we’ve got the next best thing.
The buzz: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future” (K.K. Steincke). Good news! If your #1 business wish this holiday season is knowing what 2019 holds for your company, industry and the world, we’ve ...
The buzz: “Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, machine learning?—?whatever you’re doing if you don’t understand it?—?learn it. Because otherwise you’re going to be a dinosaur within 3 years” (Mark Cuban). No longer just f...
The buzz: “Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil” (David McCandless). Big data has officially crashed into the business world, taking competition to new levels. Can your organization benefit if you don’t have qualifie...
The buzz: “Videos are more frequently shared on social media as compared to written content.” (Koka Sexton) Whether you are in sales or marketing, it’s time to think outside of the box to reach and encourage prospects to buy ...
The buzz: “Using Instagram in B2B marketing actually isn’t a bad idea” (komarketing.com). If your business is unsure about which social channels to focus on, here's the scoop. “When most B2B marketers think of Instagram, they...
The buzz: “Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them” (Irene Rosenfeld). Businesses are dra...
The buzz: “Technology is reinventing the store and reimagining the customer experience….experts encourage retailers to…shift mindsets to customer behavior” (medium.com). From social showrooming to crowdsourcing, smart curatio...
The buzz: “In the old days, sellers would bring their Rolodex from company to company – now they bring their LinkedIn network” (@RobBois). Top salespeople have mastered social networks to grow revenue potential, exceed quota,...
The buzz: “Modern Corporate Real Estate Management can surely contribute to the transformation of real estate from being a mere ‘cost of doing business’ to a true value generator” (servicefutures.com). Of the $25T in U.S. rea...
The buzz: “If you plan cities for cars and traffic, you get cars and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places” (Fred Kent). By 2030, 2/3 of humanity will live in urban areas and megacities with 10...
The buzz: “56 cents of every dollar spent in a store is influenced by a consumer’s digital interaction with the product over multiple connected devices.” (deloitte.wsj.com/cmo/2017/01/26/2017-consumer-products-outlook). Consu...
The buzz: “…we are in the middle of this Platform Revolution. The platform facilitates an accessible, scalable and efficient network of users, services, devices and intermediaries … value is created, distributed, discovered a...
The buzz: “No one in the world needs a Rhino horn but a Rhino” (Paul Oxton). Africa’s wildlife threat levels are growing at alarming rates – particularly from the poaching of elephants and rhinos. Traditional conservation met...
The buzz: “There are loads of studies which show that marketers struggle with measuring ROI from social media” (David Moth). If you’re the designated social selling results “bean counter” for your company, the standardization...
The buzz: “Chief sustainability executives the new environmental chiefs…wield extraordinary power” (www.sustainabilitydegrees.com). More employees, consumers and stockholders expect the companies they work for, buy from and i...
The buzz: “We will design products differently if we knew that those products were going to come back to us as manufacturers and we could extract value from them and create new products from them” (Teresa Domenech). The last ...
The buzz: “The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful” (Jonathan Zittrain). If your business is reviewing social media channels to determine where to focus your people and time, yo...
The buzz: ”…women are starting to gain ground as consumers and workers in a traditionally male-dominated industry, and brands should be taking note (Jose Costa, Huffington Post). Women driving the automotive industry? In 2014...
The buzz: “…there are some job perks that will make millennials consider working for less, by as much as 12 percent” (cnbc.com). Few things impact employee productivity, engagement and well-being as much as compensation. But ...
Truth time: Do you stalk prospects to get into their Facebook newsfeed? Or are you a patient advisor in their buying journey? We continue our discussion about the do’s and don’ts of Social Selling, and how you and your team “...