Many are driven to excel in business by ambition, big ideas and a firm eye on success, and without such an outlook progress would rarely be made. Yet the greatest leaders are very often the ones who know how to negotiate the difficult moments, to identify problems within their team...

PROBLEM: If you are a manager in charge of a data intensive project with multiple data sources, diverse data formats, various requirements and limited human resources, such as in the pharmaceutical industry, chances are your team will perform a lot of the task steps manually – entering data into spreadsheets,...

There’s a lot of excitement about big data. Interest in what we can do with information, especially large volumes of data, is at an all-time high. We have more data at this point in history than we’ve ever had, and most of us are looking for ways to put it...

As someone who has traveled for business for over 20 years, I have always found that even the best fitness regimens can be easily upset by business travel. Just like your sleep habits suffer when you travel, so do your eating habits. Even a short trip that includes daily workouts...

According to a recent study, millennials are the largest growing generation in the workforce. This generation of workers is flexible, team-focused, creative, entrepreneurial, and an asset to businesses large and small. By 2030, it's predicted that this internet native, tech-savvy workforce will represent 75% of our working population. To make...

The very nature of being a CEO demands that the person in that role is wholly focused on their responsibilities within an organization. Indeed, it might be considered unusual if long hours - along with consistent dedication to achieving positive results, reaching targets and growing the company - were not...

Ivy Exec, a curated community of the world’s most successful professionals, is proud to announce their new strategic partnership with CEOWORLD Magazine, a leading business and technology magazine. This partnership will provide the opportunity for an exchange of executive content and resources to each partner’s respective audience. Combining Ivy Exec’s...

A few years ago the leadership team at Domino's garnered much respect for their willingness to absorb tough talk. Sensing a growing problem, senior management ordered a series of taste-test feedback sessions where they simply let people try their pizza, then candidly say what they thought. The responses weren't encouraging, to...

Sarah winced as the hourly stack rankings beeped through her smartphone. She didn’t have to say a word. Karin knew that look from the inside out. She’s been on the frantic receiving end of such beeps. Hourly results coming in 15 times a day—quality, efficiency, sales— all neatly ranked as...

“You can’t do anything about the cost or quality of health care if you don’t know what’s happening,” Harris Rosen told me. He was casually dressed, sitting in an office he shares with a large Labrador retriever and a fluffy white poodle. For 40 years Rosen has sat at the...