CEO Advisory

On a cold day in Detroit January 5th, 1914 Henry Ford made a decision that would change history. He decided to pay his assembly workers more than twice the going $2 per day wage at the time in a desperate attempt to stem worker turn-over, and reduce errors fast. The...

The Next Time one makes that precious business trip en route for the landscape of India, one can very well clear away that stereotypical image of the World's largest Democracy being home to Tigers, Mesmerising Snake Charmers, Elephants, Imperial courts of regal splendour and take stock of the fact that...

After undergoing a rigorous selection process, Alteryx, Ayasdi, C3 Energy, 1010data, and BeyondCore was recognized among the foremost Software-as-a-Service solution for big data analytics companies on AlwaysOn’s list of 2015's OnCloud Top 100 winner. Other prominent companies selected in the "SaaS—Big Data Analytics" category, including ClearStoryData, Collective, Lotame, DataSift, and...

Economic growth in the UK has led to a resurgence in businesses using executive and leadership coaching as a learning development tool to improve the performance of senior executives and CEOs. According to CIPD’s 2014 Learning and Development study, 78 per cent of organisations intend to carry out leadership development...

Information Management and the Challenge of Big Data: The term big data describes the exceptional growth in the volume and variety of information available from online sources. Its emergence offers enterprises the opportunity to derive unparalleled business insight for enhanced decision-making for corporate strategy and operations. As the quantity of big...

Mounting threats to cybersecurity are pressuring businesses to evaluate the security of their networks. In late 2013, Target experienced a data breach of 46 million credit and debit card numbers. Cards were reissued, consumer assuredness was rattled and, ultimately, Target’s Chief Information Officer resigned. In September 2014, Home Depot confirmed...

SEO is the most misunderstood specialty in all of Internet marketing. Self-proclaimed SEO experts sometimes have no idea what they are talking about. Bad SEO players (black hat SEOs) intentionally overpromise in their attempts to secure new clients. On top of all this, best practices for SEO change on a...

Ever noticed, sometimes a single word can challenge the way you think and perhaps even change the way you live. We may not remember the details, but we will always remember the impact a person had on us. Probably. I believe that the secret to accomplishing great things is to...

Over the weekend, I combed through the FTC’s recent report – all 71 pages - on the Internet of Things (IoT), entitled, The Internet of Things - Privacy and Security in a Connected World. Everything that I had previously read online about the report didn’t revel anything novel about IoT...

From Ibiza to Goa, a recent survey conducted by National Geographic magazine has put Dublin in Ireland on rank 1 in the "top ten cities in the World for nightlife" list, beating places like Belgrade and Sao Paulo. Sleep not recommended. Belgrade, Serbia was ranked 2nd on the list among...