I read an interesting article over at InventionMachineBlog about a trend we’re seeing as our workforce ages. Did you know that half of our workforce today is eligible for retirement in the next 18 months? The Bureau of Labor Statistics says as our US labor force grows older, our percent of 55+ workers will be…
Thinking of skipping the mile-long lines this shopping season? You can get just as many deals online, without ever leaving your couch. Last year’s Black Friday saw shopping increase by 35% over the year before. And the following Monday, dubbed “Cyber Monday,” saw nearly $900 million internet sales. Consulting firm Deloitte says a whopping 70…
Cheryl Perkins, founder and president and Jeff Lindsay, director of solution development, will present at the Sustainable Plastics Packaging conference on December 8 at the Westin Atlanta Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. The Sustainable Plastics Packaging conference, organized by Plastics News Global Group, is coming to North America for the first time this year. The conference,…
Imagine a car that has a negative carbon footprint. In China, a new concept car called the 2030 Yez is the first automobile that promises to remove more pollution from the air than it creates. It’s an electric car that also combines several other technologies. The photo looks like something out of this world, doesn’t…
This week we’re hearing more on the strife between Google and television’s major networks, ABC, CBS and NBC and Google. The Big 3 are blocking some of their most-watched and beloved shows from being watched on Google’s new Web-TV service, Google TV. Google TV was launched in May, and allows us to search for and…
I travel quite a bit, and I always appreciate the extra mile hotel personnel will go to in order to make my stay excellent. So it’s no surprise to me the lengths the hotel industry goes to in the name of great customer service. These days hotels are looking to social media to improve service…
Cheryl Perkins will present the following session at Georgia Institute of Technology’s FutureMedia Fest 2010 at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 5, 2010: Collaborative Experiences Creating Business Value Opening up organizations to outside ideas has led to commercial success for many organizations. Innovation in the social and mobile media space has relied heavily on innovation…
Thanks to our phones, we’re becoming tightly drawn together as a global society. With half a billion users on Facebook and nearly as many on Twitter, our humanity and the way we connect is undergoing a seismic shift. Some predict that Google and Bing will no longer be our favorite search engine sites. Instead Twitter…
The trend toward increased convergence of our social media sites, home entertainment devices and your company intranet is going to change the way you communicate to the world in the next few years. People’s identities will be embedded in our televisions, music and video devices and the like, thanks to enhanced location awareness. It’s been…
I came across a Harvard Business Review article this week about how large corporations can better foster innovation by helping their dedicated innovation team members partner with other performance and core process teams, rather than struggle with conflict. (Culture is one of the key ingredients of a healthy company of any size!) I was drawn…
