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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

Seventy years have passed since women left the confines of being homemakers and joined the work force en mass. Today, in 2012, there are only 12 Fortune 500 companies are led by women CEO’s. They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc.

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3 Reasons Why Truckers Jobs Are Safe From Automation

The Horizons Tracker

When people talk about the jobs that are likely to be automated in the coming years, trucking is one of the most common to be cited, with innovations by companies like Otto used to exemplify the risk drivers face. It’s a risk that a new study suggests is significantly overblown, and the authors provide three reasons why this is so.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

Rogers’ classic Diffusion of Innovation Theory – buy products en masse after the “early adopters.” We were also a little too smitten with our technology, and assumed it would immediately appeal to the “early majority” – who as described in E.M.

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The Boundaries Around Your Industry Are About to Change

Harvard Business Review

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. Of course, that means that a medical device company that’s used to focusing on procurement groups who bought their devices en masse is now focused on the actual end users of their devices.

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The Boundaries Around Your Industry Are About to Change

Harvard Business Review

It will change the category you compete in, the products and services you sell, and how you market them, and even the talent you acquire. Of course, that means that a medical device company that’s used to focusing on procurement groups who bought their devices en masse is now focused on the actual end users of their devices.

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The Curious Case of Summer’s Hottest Food Item: The Pretzel Roll

Harvard Business Review

Tim Ettus, the director of operations at Sparks & Honey , a data-driven advertising newsroom that helps synchronize brands with culture, points out that food indulgences, complexity, and hybrids are currently en vogue, what with the cronut and other European pastry-like items becoming popular.