In every organization there are stellar sales folks who have a touch of gold. For an outsider it appears that they walk in and close a deal over a handshake. Others in the sales team try to mimic their style or observe and learn but never seem to be able to match their throughput. What… Read More »
One of the challenges that all enterprise face is to identify the right leaders and build a robust leadership pipeline to secure the company’s future. For any organization that intends to stay in business long after the founders have retired or are gone, the worst nightmare is to have layers of mediocrity in its leadership… Read More »
Now that I have grabbed your attention with sensational headlines, continue reading if you’d like to use AI for hiring transformation and talent management. Over the decades, HR and Staffing have earned a bad reputation. The workers blame them for always siding with the management, while the management blames them for not adding any value.… Read More »
Let’s start with the low hanging fruit before I get into the domain of using AI for line-of-business. Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) became absolutely necessary because of big-data. If it were not for ML and AI, most of the social media platforms would have been rendered useless from the get go. Consider… Read More »
I vaguely remember the day but somewhere between Nov 1994 – Jan 1995, I got my hands on the Netscape browser. With every click on the hyperlink of static web-pages my excitement and visions of the possibilities and the future exploded unbounded. During the course of my career, I have never bothered my family with… Read More »
What does it mean to have a collaborative enterprise? How to encourage collaboration behavior and imbibe it in corporate culture? These and other ideas are shared in my post on this topic
Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) have been in focus since public social media sites and tools like Facebook and Twitter have gained in popularity and use. In the last couple of years many tools have been introduced that attempt to mimic the public social media and attempt to streamline the communications among globally spread co-workers… continue… Read More »
In case you haven’t paid close attention, another acronym has been gaining ground on the heels of IoT (Internet of Things). The new term, EoT (Enterprise of Things), is about IoT’s impact to and integration into the enterprise. In my previous blog, I wrote about how IoT will dramatically change the way we work and… Read More »
It was early 1995 when I first heard of something called Mosaic that one could download to browse a rapidly evolving cluster of web-sites. At that time, the number of web-sites online was somewhere around twenty thousand, but growing rapidly. When I internalized the implications of what I saw, I told my wife that this… Read More »
The IDC report, similar to Reuters, talk about slowing growth rate of smartphone and tablet sales. This year’s Mobile World Congress (MWS) has confirmed what the sales figures had hinted earlier. If you did not notice, two things are confirmed by what have been the highlights of MWS – 1) the pace of innovation in… Read More »