• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their LocationThanks to mobile technology, employers can deliver training and development on the employee’s terms. It does not end there because mobile increases collaboration at the same time.

• Five Ways to Build a Collaborative Knowledge Culture

Get more from employee training dollars with a collaborative learning transfer system everyone can leverage for growth and performance improvements.Annually, Canadian employers are spending an average of $889 per worker to train their staff. Employees spend 32 hours a year doing the trainings, up ne...

• Social Enterprise… A Business with a Blogging Conscience

Everything has intended and unintended consequences. As the world’s population increases due to better health care and nutrition delivery, the unintended consequences include increasing poverty rates and environmental damage. Out of these unintended consequences has grown an industry made up of soci...

• Suppliers Go Deep Into the Market with Multi-Channel Networks and YouTube

The Multi-Channel Network is a growing phenomenon that takes YouTube to a new level of influence. It is an advertising model that holds great promise for suppliers pursuing brand awareness.- By Wilfred Smith

• The Social Capital of Online Communities is Embedded in Trust

Enterprise social capital accrues from online communities designed to build participant trust and active participation. It begins with trust building.- By Joshua Ferdinand

• On Second Thought… Writing a Social Media Policy

On Second Thought… Writing a Social Media PolicyWorkplace social media is filled with potential land mines for employers and employees. Developing a social media policy is a step toward preventing a public relations and legal disaster.

• In a Digital World: Incorporating Social Media with Business Development

Social media has moved beyond being a friendly means of communication to becoming a bi-directional business model. Businesses can tap into the marketplace for marketing, product development, and talent management purposes. - By Joshua FerdinandBefore the advent of social media, the internet provided...

• Who Owns Your Data-Consumerism Reinvented

Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Meet in Social NetworksInnovative businesses have active social networks that the entire organization can utilize. It is a system that promotes the free flow of innovation-producing knowledge

• Successfully Integrating Corporate Philanthropy with Profit Making

Successfully Integrating Corporate Philanthropy with Profit MakingMetrics can prove that giving and profit making can work harmoniously together.

• Mobile Technology Creates Social Economies, Demanding New Approaches

Mobile Technology Creates Social Economies, Demanding New ApproachesMobile technology is opening up new markets in a way not possible before due to a lack of traditional infrastructures. Businesses must effectively market to consumers who are using the technology to build successful local communitie...

• Trust and Successful Social Media Marketing

Trust and Successful Social Media Marketing From the huge success of The Hunger Games movie to President Obama’s stunning presidential re-election at the end of 2012, social media has played a phenomenal role by helping to create trust in those products or services in which businesses, enterprise...

• Women-Owned Businesses Increasingly Turn to Social Media for Success

Women-Owned Businesses Increasingly Turn to Social Media for Success Women make-up one of the fastest growing segments of small business. Certainly, factors like increased access to capital has had a major influence, but probably not as much influence over the last few years as social media. Growing...

• Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks

Transforming Social Networks into Employee Collaboration Networks The real power of social networking is its ability to promote collaboration. The challenge for businesses is making it happen in a way that gets the most results.

• Socially Responsible Giving Must Support the Core Mission for Best Results

Socially Responsible Giving Must Support the Core Mission for Best ResultsSocially responsible giving is part of successful business strategies

• Social Media + Marketing: How Changing Boundaries Are Leading To New Forms Of Collaboration Within And Across Organizational Structures

Social Media + Marketing: How Changing Boundaries Are Leading To New Forms Of Collaboration Within And Across Organizational StructuresAs social media permeates all parts of modern work culture, corporate communications and marketing are merging in new ways. Rather than being treated as an isolated...

• Social Media is Promoted to the C-Suite

Executives may be quick to say there is not enough time to learn and use social media. They would be surprised to discover the benefits they are missing out on.

• Managing at the Speed of Technology as Millennials Change Workplace Dynamics

Managing at the Speed of Technology as Millennials Change Workplace DynamicsCloud computing, social media, mobile and now Millennials have become forces for business disruption. The leadership challenge is learning how to manage in the here and now to harness the new dynamics.

• Doing Business in Africa: Building on Zambia’s Growth

Zambia is Actively Seeking New Partners to Expand on its Decade of Growth

• Fully Leveraging Networks Through Connectional Intelligence

Connectional Intelligence is the ability to effectively use networks and relationships to drive innovation. Organizations are learning to embrace outside insights for internal success. - By Gerald Donald

• New Challenge: Separating Good and Bad Data

Just because data is accessible and plentiful does not mean it is all good. Inadvertently using bad data can cost a business in many ways, including poor decision making and missed insights.

• Using Technology to help with Veterans Retention

A Call of Duty: Using Technology to Retain Veterans in Post-Military Jobs Employers hire veterans to take advantage of their training and skills. The next challenge is increasing employment retention rates, and technology is helping.

• The 4 Keys to a Successful Social Media Strategy for Your Small Business

Setting yourself up for success in social media can be as simple as focusing on just four strategic steps. - By Joshua Ferdinand

• Small Reach for Technology Can Lead to Big Competitive Advantage

Small Reach for Technology Can Lead to Big Competitive Advantage Access to quality marketing info via technology asset to MWBEs

• Challenging Times Call For New Leadership Coaching Strategies

In an ever-changing business environment, leadership must be adaptable and able to make value-driven, collaborative decisions. That means coaching strategies must adapt as well.- By Ingrid Johnson

• The Double Edge of Social Media: Employee and Customer Engagement

The Double Edge of Social Media: Employee and Customer EngagementSocial media is a tool for deepening relationships between the business and customers and employees when it is embedded in the organization’s processes.

• Reversing the Negative Impacts of the Pandemic on Working Women in Asia

The pandemic affected women in Asia in many negative ways, threatening the progress made to date on gender equality. Business leaders can reverse the trend by implementing targeted solutions through a gender lens, increasing the pace of economic recovery at the same time.

• Improving The Post-Pandemic Talent Recruitment Process

Improving The Post-Pandemic Talent Recruitment ProcessFrom a worldwide pandemic to international protests against social injustices, 2020 gave many recruiters a sudden reset. Now that COVID-related hiring freezes are coming to an end, how can recruiters improve the way they fill open positions?

• Creating a New Norm for Monetizing Mobile by Creating B2B Value

Mobile technology has already transformed how people do business and how business reaches people. That was just the beginning of the mobile revolution. - By James Hsu

• Building A Relationship with your Financing Source

Building A Relationship with your Financing SourceBuilding a banking relationship is a large part of financing your small business. By building this relationship, you are laying the foundation for the financial future of your business.

• Using Social Networks as a Community Approach to Driving Innovation

Using Social Networks as a Community Approach to Driving InnovationSocial networks can build internal business communities. A community approach to driving internal collaboration, knowledge sharing and diversity can only equate to innovation.

• Best Practices in Social Media

With the first quarter of 2010 over, reports are now emerging that highlight the best practices for the year in social media. However, these reports are often dismissed by smaller firms and diverse businesses as somehow not applying to them. This is a mistake. Whatever the size or nature of your ...

• Crescent-Shaped Croatia Brings Full Round of Investment Opportunities

Croatia has been quietly strengthening its economy, transportation system and technology status. It is ready to welcome foreign investors looking for places not yet popular but ready to rapidly expand economic global reach. Some call Croatia a hidden investment gem.

• The Challenge of Cause Initiatives is Finding the Right Fit

The Challenge of Cause Initiatives is Finding the Right FitAll cause initiatives seem like the right thing to do on the surface. However, a misalignment between the choice of cause and the business mission can harm, rather than help, the business brand.

• Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the Workplace

Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the WorkplaceMost employers today leverage social media to improve communications internally and externally. With the advantages come many risks which need to be anticipated and managed to minimize the potential for business disruption or reputation damage.

• What’s the Buzz? Coaching Conversations for a Fast-Paced Environment

Coaching was once reserved for top leadership. Now organizations are abuzz with coaching conversations at every level because the pace of change requires leadership at all levels.

• How AI Is Redefining The Corporate World

AI is a broad field with both theoretical and practical applications for corporations. Thanks to COVID-19, new implementations of AI in the workplace are being explored.

• Lessons Learned From the Obama Campaign

What does the Future Hold for Minority Business Development in an Obama Administration? - By Vivian Tse

• Using Social Media As a Resume Builder for Small Businesses Ready to Grow

When discussions turn to resumes, the topic usually concerns resumes for individuals. Resume building means adding accomplishments that promote a reputation by presenting experience and education. Typical accomplishments include earning an award, holding a responsible position, getting a promotion, ...

• A Primer on Doing Business in Africa

Africa is Calling. Are you Ready for the Next Global Shift in Business? - by William Bell

• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

• Taking Leadership Lessons from Amazing Brazilian Women

Brazil’s roaring economy is in no small part due to the leadership of pragmatic, educated women. Taking its rightful place on the global stage, the country is entering a new era of participation on many levels.

• Capturing the Value of Big Data as New Revenues

Capturing the Value of Big Data as New RevenuesThe opportunities to generate new revenues through the efficient and organized use of big data and big analytics are skyrocketing as technology advances.

• An Effective Post-Secondary Process Can Engage Top Aboriginal Talent

An Effective Post-Secondary Process Can Engage Top Aboriginal TalentIncreasing Aboriginal participation in post-secondary education can help reduce the labour shortage. It will take a coordinated and culturally sensitive outreach effort.

• A Social Media Evolution: Applying Social Media Inside Your Organization to Enhance Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer

A Social Media Evolution: Applying Social Media Inside Your Organization to Enhance Collaboration and Knowledge TransferSocial media is a reservoir of untapped marketing. In addition to reaching out to external stakeholders, companies can use social media to reach into its internal resources and be ...

• Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the Workplace

Getting Ahead of the Social Media Risks in the WorkplaceMost employers today leverage social media to improve communications internally and externally. With the advantages come many risks which need to be anticipated and managed to minimize the potential for business disruption or reputation damage.

• Maintaining Corporate Citizenship in Troubled Times

Maintaining Corporate Citizenship in Troubled TimesBy Ji Hyun LeeWith the country sinking deeper into recession, are sustainable business practices simply a luxury or a necessity for minority and women-owned enterprises?

• Developing the Right Mindset for a Customer-Centric Culture

Customers are more in control today than they have ever been. Business success depends on meeting their ever-changing needs, requiring a customer-centric culture supported by a workforce mindset that embraces continuous change. - By Sharon Ross

• Managing the Multigenerational Workforce Through Engagement

Just when it seems as if businesses have coped with everything imaginable, they are experiencing a new challenge: a workforce made of at least four generations.

• Expanding Your Digital Footprint: Using Social Media to Build Your Business

Expanding Your Digital Footprint: Using Social Media to Build Your Business- By Anaga DalalTwitter, Facebook, Flikr, YouTube and LinkedIn are just a few of the now abundant forms of social media that are rapidly changing people’s daily interactions as well as the everyday business landscape. Taken t...

• No Silos Allowed: Continuous Employee Learning Through Social Networking

No Silos Allowed: Continuous Employee Learning Through Social NetworkingSocial networking has flattened a spectrum of corporate silos. One of those silos is the process of knowledge transfer, and the result is continuous employee learning.

• Rewriting the Rules of CRM in the Social Media Age

Rewriting the Rules of CRM in the Social Media AgeCRM played by the same rulebook for many years. Along came social media and suddenly the rules changed, catching many businesses by surprise.

• Managing Change for Organizational and Human Effectiveness

In difficult business environments change doesn’t always have positive connotations. It implies tight resources, downsizing and increased workloads. Yet organizational change should be an ongoing process that is designed to ensure that highly capable people are working within processes that benefit ...

• Gaining a Voice Collaborative Planning through Impact Benefit Agreements

Gaining a Voice: Collaborative Planning through Impact Benefit Agreements.Over the past 25 years, exploration of mineral and petroleum resources grew steadily and primarily on Aboriginal lands. The impact of the mining on treasured lands, cultural traditions, and communities became a serious concern...

• Using Social Media Strategies to Transform Customer Service

The heart and soul of any business, whether it is focused on a product or a service, is its ability to communicate coherently with targeted customers. A business would simply cease to exist if no one knows about their product or services, much less generate income from these entities who pay for wha...

• Conquer the RFP Process By Differentiating Your Business

It is standard practice for large corporations to use the Request for Proposal (RFP) process to solicit proposals for goods and services or project work. Companies easily able to become Tier 1 suppliers have a large pool of resources in terms of assets and human capacity, making it easier to meet RF...

• Cyber Attacks More Serious and More Sophisticated Each Year

Cyber Attacks More Serious and More Sophisticated Each YearCyberattacks can do more than steal data or money. They can drive a business out of business, due to loss of assets or loss of customer trust. SMEs are particularly at risk, meaning every business needs a cybersecurity strategy.

• A $13 Trillion Market Opportunity Waits For Firms Who Embrace Accessible Design

One in four adults in the United States is living with some form of disability, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As these adults encounter marketing content online, it’s essential that business campaigns include accessible design in order to reach this segment of the p...

• Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial Performance

Linking Human Capital Governance and Performance to Financial PerformanceThe SEC has created a new 10-K disclosure requirement concerning human capital. The requirement was purposefully devoid of specifics, to allow companies the freedom to assess how their human capital impacts financial performanc...

• Social Media - Managing at the Speed of Technology

Cloud computing, social media, mobile, and now Millennials have become forces for business disruption. The leadership challenge is learning how to manage in the here and now to harness the new dynamics.

• Social Media: The Path to Finding and Keeping the Right Talent

Social media is transforming the job-seeking process. That means organizations must transform their talent acquisition strategy to successfully compete for talent. - By Joshua Ferdinand

• Glimpsing the Future of Television: You-Tube Content Channels

YouTube TV was recently introduced to the market, marking the next step in the journey towards internet TV. Once a random collection of video content, it is now gelling into a major source of content channels. Experts wonder: What is the future of cable and satellite television?

• Human Capital Providing a Springboard for Global Inclusiveness

Diversity and inclusion are core values that provide the springboard for global inclusiveness. It takes a comprehensive approach that includes developing allies, ERGs, culturally intelligent leaders, and safe communication and learning opportunities. - By Joseph Warren

• Women Leaders are Out in Front of Asia’s New Economies

Women Leaders are Out in Front New EconomiesDespite cultural barriers, the leaders of the ‘New Asia’ are often women.

• Leveraging Mobile Technology to Enhance the Customer Experience

Leveraging Mobile Technology to Enhance the Customer ExperienceMobile technology has moved from being a technology silo to being an integral tool that enhances the customer experience. Mobile technology has moved beyond being a customer touch point to being an assistive aid during the customer journ...

• The Evolving Corporate and Aboriginal Relations Path to Prosperity for All

The Evolving Corporate and Aboriginal Relations: Path to Prosperity for AllCorporate-Aboriginal relations are improving, but there are still many fences to mend due to decades of exclusion. Continued progress depends on developing a greater understanding of the Aboriginals’ new position in modern da...