Much of the discussion around the future of work fixate on our changing routines: hours or location, flexible schedules, team structures, employee engagement, or generational changes. But there is a bigger conversation on how our societies perform and serve their citizens in how we support education, aging and labor.

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The conversations about wearable Internet of Things devices too often focus on the devices and their capabilities, rather than the ecosystem they can inspire. The Apple Watch has had its features and functions explained in detail. What we should really look at is its role in the ecosystem around the user and the […]

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“As Alvin Toffler tells us, there are all kinds of time spanners that connect us to the past, but we don’t have a heritage of the future. We don’t have memory to help us adapt to the things we see in the future,” said Stuart Candy, Director of the Situation Lab, […]

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Each year we long-term healthcare facilities toss out a combine $2 Billion in unused medicines to restock shelves. There are billions more wasted due to poor planning, logistics and inventory management. Can we safely recycle some of these medicines to those who need it? PharmaCares thinks so.

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Big Data is on company balance sheets, but did you know so is your own personal Small Data? We are eventually all going to need a Life Management Platform to keep track how our Small Data is used

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Why with all the power of the Internet do we still have to manually update the information of our business contacts and relationships? Nimble has taken a nice step towards simplifying this vital task in organizations, which will especially help midmarket companies.

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Women led business are the top growth organizations in 8 out of 13 industries, and plentiful in the midmarket business segment. Do such women leaders face the burden of leadership in a different way? A look from the Women Presidents Organization annual event.

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Isn’t it time we upgrade from text knowledge management to thinking about video knowledge management? They may ave similar needs, even as the technology differs, but how people interact in this mode is substantially different and more engaging.

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We see lists of best places to work appear every year. They are great for employees and those interested, but how about for the organization? Does having a healthy and engaging company culture translate into success? Dr. Andrew Chamberlain, Chief Economist of Glassdoor took a closer look at how such companies performed.

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Software developers are not like others. There is a difference in the culture that people in these roles grow up with. My career began in this space, and at first, I used to think it was an American thing. In the years of talking to and working with developers and […]

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