Digital & Technology

April 7, 2011 - A "dashboard" performance measurement system helps managers focus on what truly counts. But what constitutes an effective performance measurement system and just as importantly, how does an organization go about developing one?

June 17, 2010 - With the explosion of mobile phone adoption in the U.S., many organizations are actively looking for new ways to leverage mobile technology to improve their company's offering.

March 7, 2011 - DiSciTech Awards panel members discuss ways for companies to be innovative. Sometimes it takes a revolutionary and evolutionary approach.

June 7, 2010 - Traditionally, technologies in the telecom industry and technologies in the information technology (IT) industry have followed separate paths, reflecting the unique business models, operational requirements, and deployment scenarios of the two domains.

May 20, 2010 - The Internet is growing in all facets of our economy and e-commerce is no exception. According to e-commerce Optimization, an online shopping cart reference guide, online retail revenues will surpass the quarter-trillion-dollar mark by 2011.

May 20, 2010 - In 2009, two Domino's Pizza employees filmed themselves tainting food they were making for customers and posted the video on the Internet. Not even bothering to cover their faces, the duo was quickly identified and fired. Yet the damage was done; the video got over a million views on YouTube.

May 6, 2010 - With wireless penetration reaching 91% in the U.S. and continuing to grow, companies must establish a strategy for reaching customers on their mobile devices or risk losing sales and possibly loyal customers. However, like any emerging advertising medium, the marketplace for delivering mobile ads is exploding.

May 6, 2010 - With all the options available in today's technology, it seems natural that many companies would take advantage of remote working policies. Remote working, or telework, has many benefits, including reducing the cost of overhead, allowing anytime/anywhere access and promoting a respectable work/life balance.

May 6, 2010 - In today's rapidly changing marketplace, the need for enterprise-wide business intelligence (BI) has never been greater for companies. BI can lead to better decisions and more effective approaches to all company initiatives - from reaching customers to honing internal processes.

May 6, 2010 - Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in general is not a fast endeavor when it comes to return-on-investment (ROI); however, there are often overlooked areas where ERP can be applied within business operations to speed it up.

May 6, 2010 - Today, everything is social - social commerce, social business, social CRM - the list goes on and on. Social has become a multifaceted word in the world of business. It carries with it a lot of baggage and has many people asking, "What's the business value?"

May 6, 2010 - Social media is one of the biggest shifts in modern business. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, Wikis and more have created new opportunities to interact and learn about customers, prospects, competitors and even your own sales force. Twitter alone boasts 50 million Tweets each day - that's 600 per second.

May 6, 2010 - Before the advent of cloud computing, big business technology capability always outpaced smaller companies with the latest software, higher data security and system flexibility. But leveraging capacity cloud computing now provides companies...

May 6, 2010 - For many business and government entities, online interactions have become of greater and greater importance because of their impact on the organization. User interactions through the Web channel touch point drive a wide variety of business activity from online prospecting, to retail e-commerce, to online financial...

May 6, 2010 - A whopping 80 percent of the information your company saves is useless. More than half is never looked at once it's filed. But the really important stuff-”ideas, insights, lessons learned-”marches out your door at quitting time or lies dead and buried in a shared drive.

May 6, 2010 - If you are like me, you get a few requests a week from someone who wants to "link" with you on LinkedIn. Most people send generic "please link with me" messages and others send personalized messages that make you want to at least check out their profile. So what do you do?

May 6, 2010 - As a part of daily business, you likely collect protected personal information (PPI) from employees, customers, vendors and third parties through your Web site or by paper correspondence. If you collect PPI, you owe a duty to the owners of this information to safeguard and not unreasonably disclose it.

May 6, 2010 - These are tough times for marketing executives. Faced with shrinking budgets and increasing pipeline targets, they have to deal with delayed sales cycles and markets that don't behave the way they were taught in business school.

May 6, 2010 - Many small business owners are wondering how they can utilize social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to reach customers and grow their businesses without drawing marketing time and dollars away from other established mediums.

May 6, 2010 - The corporate information technology infrastructure is a necessary element of any building design project. Critical design elements such as cabling systems, Data Center MEP loads and audio-visual systems can significantly change a project in complexity, efficiency, and cost.