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5 Practical Technologies Every Ambitious SMB in Industrials Should POC

Social, Agile and Transformation

Manufacturing, construction, and other industrial businesses can leapfrog from technology-lagging organizations to ones driving competitive advantages. A chief challenge is escaping legacy mindsets, especially in small and medium businesses where technology is a commodity component that’s bought once and used well past its depreciation date.

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How to Innovate by Introducing Product Management in SMB and Non-Tech Companies

Social, Agile and Transformation

I learned two truths this week. During the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers, a LinkedIn audio event that I host most Fridays at 11 am ET, Jay Cohen shared that January was a good time of the year to focus on learning programs and driving department and team-level realignments.

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3 Digital Transformation Strategies in SMB

Social, Agile and Transformation

Digital transformation requires leaders to reconsider their business models in the face of market disruptions, changing customer needs, new technology capabilities, greater security threats, and new opportunities to empower a digital workforce. window.dojoRequire(["mojo/signup-forms/Loader"], function(L) { L.start({"baseUrl":"mc.us14.

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Level the playing field with GenAI: Top SMB use cases

CIO Business Intelligence

Coupled with the leanness and agility of SMBs, centering GenAI in their long-term strategy is an increasingly compelling move for many businesses. Driving innovation by easing content creation Yet even as GenAI is transforming the dynamics of business, not every SMB has seized this opportunity.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

The worlds of cloud, mobile, social and cyber will continue expanding, permuting and recombining. Social Media takes over - Social media will usurp other forms of marketing to become the leading tool for influence marketing and initial customer contact. Today the average Fortune 100 brand has 320 social media accounts.

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What’s the Top Information Security Priority for Every SMB

Social, Agile and Transformation

Some context: I rarely blog about information security because it’s outside my core expertise in digital transformation. It’s hard to drive transformation and also have a risk and security mindset, and it’s extraordinarily time-consuming to keep up with the latest security threats.

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Incorporating Big Data into Your Business

Eric D. Brown

Many big data articles out there talk about the technologies and methodologies but there are few that give real world examples of the use of big data principles within the small and medium business (SMB) space. This particular example isn’t anything new for retail stores.

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