In case you missed it, FastCompany has come out with its annual list of the most innovative companies of 2013. Some of them you’ve heard of (Nike, Amazon), and others you may not have.
The magazine’s guide has a distinct focus on the state of innovation in our economy, featuring the businesses whose innovations are having the greatest impacts across their industries and our culture as a whole.
Today’s blog is a blog of a blog! Seriously, I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately about the economy and how businesses can strategize around their outsourcing efforts: How to make those decisions sound, get them set up correctly and and make the most of those partnerships. So I put together a blog-like article…
“There are expected to be 28 billion connected devices by 2020. We’ll need the computing scale that only the cloud can provide to learn from them.” I’d say that is good advice! Via Forbes: Cloud computing has been underestimated as a transformative force in business. And it’s just getting started. The disruption that cloud computing…
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is seen as the busiest travel day of the year in the United States, and as I post this, millions of Americans are sitting in airports, train stations or in their cars waiting to get going on their Thanksgiving travel plans. About 38 million domestic travelers are expected to go somewhere…
UPS and FedEx both report that they anticipate delivering close to 1 billion packages in the next few weeks. JUST in the United States alone. That’s a 10 percent more than 2014, and shows just how much more Americans consume. The computer gurus at ZDNET say robots will play a huge role in fulfilling all…
Ask the leaders of a business how much they spend on printing. The response can be interesting, even hilarious. It’s an expense that is easily overlooked yet can be substantial. Few companies know if they are being overbilled. Decisions may be handled by cloudy processes where influences other than quality and value sometimes hold sway….
Like just about every corporate sacred cow, the idea of companies always needing a corporate communications department has been questioned – and re-thought. One reason might be headcount, another might be social media trends. But Wendy Marx over at Fast Company says the rules are changing because the challenges communicators face are very different than…
