The level of performance in a company is not only dependent on processes and individual talent. Companies need to create richer learning environments in which knowledge access is provided to all employees and where a culture of collaboration precedes every decision made. As this is intimately connected to technology, we...

In 1996 John Kotter from Harvard Business School famously stated that 70% of change programs fail. Twelve years later in 2008, McKinsey surveyed 3199 executives and showed that nothing had changed with the fail rate holding at an obstinate 70%. More recently in 2013, Towers Watson reported that despite the...

Today, the growth of what is known as the “Visual Web” is rapidly outstripping the traditional internet. What this means is that images – photographs, memes, videos are becoming the preferred content on the internet, both in terms of uploads, and interactions. According to analysts 1.8 billion photos are posted...

From startups to the federal government, no organization is immune to the unpredictable.  We’re only halfway through 2016, and the U.S. Department of Defense is already tackling a range of complex challenges: battling the Islamic State group, combating domestic terrorism, and ensuring that key initiatives receive sufficient funding. And the...

The list represents a ranking of the world's top 20 leading container ship operators as of May 25, 2016, based on existing fleet and number of ships in their order books - an overview of the top worldwide shipping lines. The data was compiled by Alphaliner, the global information platform...

If you work in a corporate office, you probably understand the annoyance of making requests of any kind, whether it be for access or resources. It needs to be directed to the correct department, probably IT, and then possibly forwarded to a manager for approval. During this process, the user...

Why Does Employee Financial Wellness Matter? Employers are increasingly providing their employees with more choices when it comes to retirement planning, health care, and other benefits. Offering a range of options is important, but the true key to any effective benefits program is to ensure that employees have sufficient information,...

Employee engagement surveys have been around for decades, but executives constantly tell us that they don’t know what to do with the information they receive from them. One CEO recently said to me, “We get the same score every year, and I don’t know how to make improvements based on...

What's the world's most polluted city? Well, it isn't Beijing or Delhi — the actual city with the most polluted air is in Iran. The Iranian city of Zabol comes out on top, according to the new data released by World Health Organisation (WHO). India's capital, comes 11th in this...