For all its financial complexities and projections, mergers and acquisitions can be reduced to the familiar, and at times peculiar, traits of individual buyers. It’s an art more than science; how else could a seasoned business titan like Rupert Murdoch fail so miserably with MySpace—he divested it at 6% of...

While security still remains a concern for enterprises, professionals are no longer letting it get in the way. Businesses today are faced with increasing pressure to employ state-of-the-art solutions while still staying within budgetary restraints, making the cloud an ideal option. Due to its many benefits, professionals are moving past...

Eventually, every successful company reaches a time when it just makes sense to hire a PR firm. While the timing of this decision is unique to each business, there are some tried and true reasons that should encourage you to make this decision sooner than later. 1. You Don’t Have...

Many companies overlook the value of social media networks as customer service tools. A social media analytics company known as Talkwalker released an infographic detailing upcoming social media expert predictions for 2014. Social media gurus weight in, emphasizing a need for genuine and transparent communications online, between businesses and consumers....

Leadership gurus, management coaches, and consulting firms are fond of telling CEOs and their management teams that top down, command and control, leadership is old school and bad while team-oriented inclusive leadership is modern and good. Unfortunately, too many leaders take this advice much too far.  Not only are they...

World is changing at the speed of light and so is changing the business canvas. CEOs and Boards are constantly worried for that ambiguous period between the last light and the first light, next day. They are worried as to what might change during this intervening period. There are successions,...

MOOCs (massive open online courses) have been revolutionizing online education for several years and are now becoming a major force in the corporate world. Designed to enroll thousands of learners, the courses happen online and are free to anyone with a computer, Internet access and the drive to learn something...

References available on request is the footnote of most CVs written in English, yet all too often the ‘final hurdle’ of the hiring process is either forgotten altogether or given only cursory attention, yet a quality reference checking process is not merely a disaster prevention practice, it can unearth vitally...

Not only are customers now empowered to compare prices, products and brand reputations before they decide to purchase, thanks to smartphones and other mobile devices — but new advances in mobile technology are about to inflict even greater impacts on the retail environment as we know it. This is due...

Research organizations Gartner and Forrester predict 2014 will be the year corporations that have been holding back on technology spending break out their checkbooks for information technology (IT) purchases. Before they do, however, they should make sure their IT strategy is aligned with their organization’s current and long-term business strategies...