Charles Darwin once said: “In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out of the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment”. Interestingly, this statement...
holds equally true for biology as for business; companies that fail to change and adapt to a changing environment will eventually be forced to exit the market. Innovation is the process through which firms evolve, hopefully for the better.
In-memory computing is all set to turn mainstream due to the host of benefits it offers and supportive factors such as dropping memory prices. Companies should use in-memory...
techniques while developing new analytics applications to take advantage of them. In addition, they must consider re-engineering legacy systems to prepare them for a new world of data, reduce complexity, and improve scalability and speed.
Organizations are now looking for the new X factor that will carry their business performance to the next level. And that factor is “people engagement”, which includes...
engagement with customers, employees, partners, and more. Successful games succeeded because they smartly “mined” the human mind, in the process, pushing the boundaries of hope and imagination…and instilling a “feel-good” factor. Organization, are you listening?
Given that making the right decisions consistently separates the leaders from the rest of the pack, the real question for any business leader is how can information be leveraged to make the right business decisions and create differentiation for the organization.
Internet is on the brink of substantial expansion. As objects and devices that form part of our daily lives acquire IP addresses to assume their own identity (supported by ubiquitous connectivity). We’re talking of toothbrushes, shoes, coffee machines, homes, and more becoming connected, adaptive, intelligent and responsive!
Companies from across sectors are experiencing exponential growth in data as social interactions, rich media and a variety of devices generate new content. A tidal wave...
of digital data is getting created through emails, instant messaging, survey videos, images, RFID tags, web text, blogs, geo-location devices, collaboration platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and so many other sources.
In the outsourcing territory, research and development (R&D) is considered the final frontier. That’s because R&D is seen as a source of...
innovation – the mother of competitiveness, which is to be protected at any cost. As we all well know, from our business studies text books, core activities should never be outsourced.
There is more to augmented reality than locating the nearest restaurant and mapping the best route. The science behind this technology has been around...
for a few years now, but the world has done little with it. Many fail to realize that augmented reality is one of the most versatile and compelling technologies, which could be leveraged to shape the challenges and opportunities facing tomorrow’s enterprises.
How do some people sway public opinion where others fail? What's the secret behind personal influence? How important are connections? These have become all-important questions in our...
age of social networking. Social networks have expanded the influence of connections to unimaginable proportions. Clearly, there is business value to be derived from networks. It's no wonder then that the science of social networks has kindled interest among industry think tanks and corporate executives.
Cloud computing has come of age. Though it started out as an idea, cloud computing has now outgrown its initial premise. Infrastructure scalability, virtualization-led savings, faster development cycles, and...
private cloud-driven efficiency are only a part of what the cloud can offer to enterprises, and there is the promise of more to come.