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BloomThat: 3 Reasons Why One Blossoming Startup Is Imploding A $26.6 Billion...
If you can imagine it, there’s most likely a mobile app for it. Fitness and calories trackers. Setting hair appointments. One-click shopping. Two-click banking. Games that keep us occupied when boredom...
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5 Best Ways To Boost Your Mobile Marketing Strategy
As the world moves toward tablets and smartphones and away from desktop computers and laptops, more companies are getting serious about their mobile marketing strategy. Already exceeding newspaper,...
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Franklin Valve Shows How Small Business Tackles Rapid Growth
Growth is a great sign of success in business, especially for small businesses like Franklin Valve. Growth also comes with complexity: Business processes become more complicated, resources get...
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8 Tips To Boost Your Mobile Conversion Rate
The future of the web is mobile. Recent statistics clearly show the increasing importance of mobile devices and platforms for engaging traffic, page view rates, and business conversion, and the signs...
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99 Mind-Blowing Ways The Digital Economy Is Changing The Future Of Business
The digital economy is steadily revolutionizing every aspect of our lives. We all sense it – how we live, play, and work will never be the same again. In the past, enterprise software used to be about...
View ArticleHow Are Mobile Devices And Apps Helpful For Healthcare?
Many aspects of clinical practice have been transformed by healthcare professionals using mobile devices and applications. Smartphones are now common in healthcare settings and we have seen an instant...
View ArticleE-Commerce 2016 Part 2: Reviewing Laws
The e-commerce picture in Europe is varied, but not just because we’re talking about a group of countries with their own traditions and habits. Some countries are miles ahead in e-commerce usage, while...
View ArticleE-Commerce 2016 Part 3: Mixed Bag In The Americas
The Americas run the gamut with e-commerce, from the massive market in the U.S., to a still-lagging Canada, and a mixed situation in Latin America. Of course, comparing a mix of countries in Central...
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The Burner Phone: Every Good Spy Has One, And So Should You
There I was: punched in the face, dragged to the ground, and mugged. It was a sunny spring afternoon on a busy street in Newark, New Jersey. I popped up from the pavement and gave chase to the thugs...
View ArticleIs Our Financial Future Paperless?
Spawned by the recent news that Sweden has pushed its economy towards the cashless, digital frontier, this bold financial move has caused many to wonder if the financial markets will soon go paperless...
View Article2016 Predictions For The SMB
For small and midsize businesses, 2015 was the year of digital transformation, enabling SMBs to compete on the same playing field as larger enterprises. As we finish out the year, we thought we should...
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Happiness As A Corporate [VIDEO]
I just finished the book Op naar geluk, by Ap Dijksterhuis, in which the author states that we are 50% in charge of your own happiness. Well… if it only was 1%, then it would still be worth sharing a...
View ArticleULTA Gives Beauty Product Shopping A Makeover
Shopping for beauty products isn’t easy. The myriad of choices is overwhelming and the in-store sales process can be quite intimidating. Going online for products is challenging, too. A slight...
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A Constant Wi-Fi Connection, James Bond-Style
It’s 6 a.m. Eighteen minutes ago, I settled myself in the American Airlines’ Admiral’s Lounge. I’m sipping on a machine-made cappuccino in my one of my favorite airport lounge chairs while I wait for...
View ArticleTech For Holiday Travel
While we’re all waiting for the jet that will ferry us from New York to London in half an hour, or for the Concorde-2 (yeah, everything has a sequel these days), there are plenty of other travel tech...
View ArticleWhat Happened In The Digital Economy In 2015?
The digital economy continued to grow in 2015 — although some regions are experiencing a slowdown, while others, where the majority of the population doesn’t have access to the Internet, are playing...
View ArticleWill Personalized Technology Reduce Sports Injuries?
Many people are calling the number of sports injuries these days nothing short of an epidemic. It’s easy to understand why. Concussions have become a top concern for professional sport leagues around...
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Top 50 #Mobile Twitter Influencers
#MOBILE – TWITTER INFLUENCERS We are aimed at becoming an authority on business innovation and want to help you identify the top influencers so you can follow the latest trends, news and opinions of...
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Top 10 Blogs/News Sites for Mobile
As we continue to serve as a resource for business innovation information, we compiled a list of the Top 10 News/Blog sites featuring information about Mobile. This is a follow-up post to our Top 50...
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Explaining the BYOD Trend: Bring Your Own Device
Bring Your Own Device or BYOD is a growing mobility trend, which allows employees to “bring their own devices,” to use for work purposes and to access company information. Allowing employees to bring...
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Top Three Technology Trends With The Biggest Impact On Companies
Today, we are in the midst of a business revolution. Driving the transformation of business are three core technology trends, which have become top buzzwords in the business world: mobility, cloud...
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6 Trends That Are Changing Retail
In order to succeed, today’s retailers have to offer a seamless shopping experience across all channels – and mustn’t lose track of their customers. You’ve waited 15 minutes for a sales person to show...
View ArticleBanking Must Embrace Digital Tech’s Full Potential For Customer Engagement
The banking industry is no stranger to digital technology. A short-lived online home banking service was offered in 1981 by four major New York City banks (Citibank, Chase Manhattan, Chemical Bank, and...
View ArticleSink Or Swim In ‘17: Embracing The Mobile Mind Shift Keeps You Afloat, Part 2
Part 2 of a series. Read Part 1. What’s the biggest opportunity for finance leaders in 2017? During a recent webinar, Forrester Research VP and principal analyst Paul Hamerman said, “There is an...
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42 Facts On Technologies Driving The Digital Economy
Part 2 of the six-part blog series “Facts on the Future of Business“ Innovation in the business world is accelerating exponentially, with new, disruptive technologies and trends emerging that are...
View ArticleSocial Media For Small Business: 6 Tips
For many small businesses, the ability to be nimble and innovative can be as much of a burden as an opportunity. Uncertainty about where to begin with any new task can be strong. And when it comes to...
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How High Tech Supports Other Industries With Digitalization
When we look at digitalization, we see many industries taking part in societal changes and being affected by those changes. Yet we see the high-tech industry as the backbone of the digitalization...
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Revolution In Industrial Machinery And Components With Digitization
Change is here because of the digital revolution. Companies that supply industrial machinery and components are seeing strong gains as they digitize the machinery and components they sell. But at the...
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Is Digitalization Challenging Professional Services?
The professional services industry has been conducting business pretty much the same way for a long time. Professional services firms acquire talent, train employees into their corporate culture and...
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How Telcos Stay Relevant In A Digital Revolution
Digital trends are doing more than taking over the telco industry. They are disruptive, changing the way telcos must do business. Companies such as Netflix, WhatsApp, and even Google have completely...
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Innovation In The Chemical Industry
The only constant is change, right? For the chemical industry, this could not be more true. In fact, if we were to travel back in time just five or ten years, we would be amazed at the difference. The...
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Digitalization: Producing Results In The Oil And Gas Industry
The world’s population will expand to 10 billion people by the year 2050. Think about that. Ten billion people. And all those people will need a clean, reliable, affordable source of energy....
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How Can The Public Sector Boost Innovation?
Government agencies face great pressure to offer services in a more consumer-oriented way. For example, Amazon makes ordering products quick and easy on Amazon—why can’t we obtain government services...
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Are Wholesale Distributors Really Technology Laggards?
Recently, Brian Fanzo and Daniel Newman, co-hosts of the popular S.M.A.C. Talk (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) Technology podcast, caught up with Karen Lynch, vice president, global wholesale...
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Thrilling Changes Are On The Horizon, But Are Automakers Ready?
Germany’s Autobahn highway system is associated worldwide with speed. It’s also an apt metaphor for the automotive industry’s ongoing transformation, due to the digital economy, which is accelerating...
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Why Innovation Is A Blessing And A Curse For Legacy Banks
The financial services industry has typically moved at a glacial pace. The simple act of taking money out of an ATM or visiting a bank hasn’t changed in decades. Yet even the most traditional...
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Mill Products Companies Are No Laggards On Innovation
Many aspects of the world have been digitized or are moving in that direction, and the mill products industry is no exception. This industry includes the manufacturing of various materials, including...
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Technology Drives Profit For Engineering, Construction, And Operations Companies
In a recent podcast, Brian Fanzo and Daniel Newman, co-hosts of the popular S.M.A.C. Talk (social, mobile, analytics, cloud) Technology Podcasts spoke with Michael Shomberg, global vice president and...
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The Impact Of Digital Transformation On The Life Sciences Industry
By 2025, we will be in a consumer-driven global life sciences market. Patients will have more access to their personal records. They will also be more accountable for their own health. Personalized...
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How Are Consumers Driving Digitalization Of Utilities?
Utilities keep our everyday lives running efficiently. They bring water, electricity, gas, and more to our homes. We rarely notice them unless they don’t work, or the bill is higher than expected....
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RCS: If We Build It, Will They Come?
Just over a year ago, I was an RCS (rich communications service) skeptic. A big one! Meaning: I thought that the RCS standards were too fragmented, a waste of time, and too little, too late; that they...
View ArticleFive Digital And Mobile Trends You Should Know
Digital and mobile technologies have seen astonishing growth over recent years. Following is a list of some of the most cutting-edge 2018 trends enabling businesses and consumers. 1. Artificial...
View ArticleThree Ways Mobile Applications Can Streamline Enrollment For Charter Schools
Enrollment in charter schools has nearly tripled in the past decade, and it continues to grow. In 2006 and 2007, 1.2 million students were enrolled in charter schools in the United States. While the...
View ArticleHow Midsize Businesses Can Support A Modern Mobile Workforce
Since the advent of the Internet, the way that global businesses go about their work has changed in about every way imaginable. As an unlimited global communications tool, the Internet has made it...
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