Next Team, Best Team
As an IT professional and keen business observer, you’re always scouting talent. You like to recruit good people as you find them, not as you need them.
Rock You Like A Hurricane
Tropical storms ease their way into our lives, starting at the bottom right corner of the screen and working their way into and through our living rooms. Natural disasters, combined with the built landscape we humans are so good at, leave unnatural sights in their wake.
Planning into the Eye of the Hurricane
Looking way out over the hood is part of business planning, and the emerging changes in our physical world certainly play into that. If you think 200 years is too far away to have implications for your business, consider the implications of rising water levels along much of the world’s coastlines,
The Odyssey Toward A Civic Accord
Those in the car game, the dealers and analysts with a vested interest in automobile design and production, have a time-honored turn of phrase for the challenges faced by Honda franchisees.
Dr. Strangelove Rides Again
Ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong, one of those days when, given the opportunity, you might choose to push the red button and blow it all up, just to start it up all over again without all the craziness?
Managing Innovation
The Covid-19 effect will be studied for years. How did the virus affect business, the workforce, the human capital required to make the changes necessary for keeping products and services at the cutting edge of industry and customer expectations?
The Global Junior High Lunchroom
Remember the lunchroom in junior high, the sneaking suspicion or very real sensation that the cool kids at the other table were talking about you? Or maybe you were at the cool kids’ table, and you remember talking about the other kids.
The Wild, Wild West Of Cybersecurity
There is nothing glamorous about fixing fences. The beauty of the work shines through when you’re herding a handful of cows from their newly found greener pastures back to their designated pastures.
We’re Only Human After All
Even if you’re not an 80’s music aficionado, you might recall the lyrics from a Level 42 song that rationalized that “we’re only human after all.” If not, drag that Members Only jacket out of the dark recesses of your closet and crank up your Walkman.
GoDaddy Go, Going, Gone?
Remember the sexy ads, the ones that made headlines, and also commoditized web hosting? Then there were the Danica Patrick ads, essentially an extension of the sexy ads that seemed so controversial at the time.