Many mentoring programs focus on coaching employees on their hard skills to excel in their roles specifically. Corporate grandparenting focuses on developing proven performers into future leaders as part of a succession plan. In this, corporate grandparents address bigger company concepts like corporate values, company culture and provide perspective, guidance...

With everything on a CEO’s plate these days, it is not hard to understand why being active on social media is not a priority. In fact, it is not hard to see how many CEOs might perceive social media as potentially having greater risks than rewards. Even corporate email, once...

Due to the turbulence in international financial markets over the last decade, there has been a massive shift in global business. The business terrain now requires business people all over the world to have abilities which enable them to manage the changes and requirements of contemporary business. These requirements include...

If you’re running a business of any size and in any sector then there is never a bad time to focus on areas of potential improvement... but the New Year is certainly as good a time as any. So, as January approaches again and we wrack our brains for resolutions,...

“While IBM is supposedly transforming, they are also losing business and customers every quarter. What are they actually doing to fix this? Nothing. In saying the company is in a transition and is going to go through the biggest reorganization in its history, will this really fix a very obvious...

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...