Education and Career

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...

A recent study identified a disturbing trend in American higher education: None of the top 10 undergraduate computer-science programs in the United States — and only three of the top 50 — require students to take a single course on cybersecurity as a prerequisite for graduation. The University of Alabama...

The rise of virtual communication has made the act of conducting business globally more accessible for many entrepreneurs. However, there are many businesses owners that still consider face to face to communication an integral part of conducting business globally. Travelling to meet with international clients is considered essential in forging...

The way we work has changed pretty radically over the past couple of decades, with today’s office landscape almost unrecognisable from what’s gone before. Many start-ups are forgoing rented space altogether, happy to combine a virtual remote office with the occasional café meeting or teambuilding exercise, while shared working spaces...

The moment you decided to move out of your garage, and find a real office space is the time that you realize your business is growing. Pulling right customer to your business is must; after all, you need funds to keep your startup alive, getting strong, and growing. So, what...

Why do leaders falter and fail? Is it due to a lack of knowledge, misguided strategy, or poorly-applied techniques? Rarely. At the core of leadership dysfunction is a behaviour that is hardly ever seen, let alone taught in leadership books and trainings. It’s something everyone faces and most of us...

Sales order processing isn’t limited to your internal procedures. In fact, it presents real costs to your customer acquisition, cash flow and the return on investment you ultimately realize from employees. Here’s a look at how sales order processing impacts your business and how sales order processing software could be...

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...

A CEO was asked how many people work in his company: ‘About half of them,’ he responded. This is a joke, of course, but it has a troubling undertone. The truth is that in many companies, a significant number of people are “checked out.” They show up to work to...

Increasing employee productivity is a goal most companies attempt to achieve whether it's through Six Sigma methodologies or the implementation of performanace based methods of encouraging better work ethics. Recently, there have been new developments in the IT industry that focus on the use of video conferencing as a means...