IBM Powers Healthcare Diagnostics
While Google and Apple may have taken earlier steps into the healthcare arena, IBM has recently made its presence known. If you are curious, take a look at how IBM is helping Novo Nordisk, Medtronic and radiologists. Novo Nordisk and IBM Watson Health announced in December that the two companies will work together to create [...]
Fintech and P-to-P Payments Threaten Banks
Financial technology (fintech) companies are threatening banks on many fronts according to American Banker. While this is true, it is in peer-to-peer (P-to-P) payments that banks may be most at risk. Banks may not have much time to reverse this trend. The advantages they have are their legacy as well as the history and trust [...]
Desalination Plants Help Hydrate California
How viable of a water solution can converting seawater to fresh water be? Ask Bob Yamada. He is the San Diego County Water Authority’s (SDCWA) water-resources director. According to Engineering News-Record, Yamada explained that water recently began flowing through a new $1 billion, 54-million-gallon-a-day desalination plant in Carlsbad, California. The plant has been running smoothly [...]
Information Security in 2016
In 2016, information security continues to be a critical topic for organizations of all types to address. In its 2016 Annual Security Report that discusses cybersecurity trends and threat intelligence, Cisco drives this point home. The report points out that only 45 percent of organizations worldwide are confident in their security measures as today’s cyber attackers [...]
Executive Role Transitions Are More than Onboarding
With the beginning of a new year, this brings opportunities. Although New Year’s resolutions represent opportunities, I am referring to opportunities of the business variety and related transitions. These include executives taking new roles in their current organizations or entirely different companies. Making the decision to take one of these new roles requires careful consideration, but [...]
Population Health Links Hospitals with Community Needs
While there still may not be a consensus on the interpretation of the term “population health,” healthcare leaders in a George Washington University survey agreed that it is “an opportunity for health care systems, agencies and organizations to work together in order to improve the health outcomes of the communities they serve.” Defining it is [...]
Make Executive Time Off an Actual Vacation
If you are like many successful executives and business professionals, you have a strong drive to set and accomplish objectives which is one of the main reasons you are successful. This drive can make it very easy to stay a couple extra minutes to finish something at the office or even steal a few moments to [...]
Changing Driver Behavior with Telematics
What are telematic devices? Why would insurance companies and consumers care about them? According to Gartner, telematics refers to the use of wireless devices and “black box” technologies to transmit data in real time back to an organization. Often, the term is used in relation to an automobile. Insurance companies are utilizing telematic devices to [...]
SpaceX Rocket Reusability
Like any innovative company, SpaceX continues to try to look for ways to make the “difficult” a reality. The ability to reuse a rocket has been talked about for decades, but no space organization has attempted to make it happen. After 13 years of working on the issue, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk believes it is [...]
Smartphones and Tablets Lead U.S. Device Growth
Smartphone ownership by Americans increased 33 percent, and tablet ownership increased 42 percent in the last five years according to recently released survey data from the Pew Research Center. As of 2015, 68 percent of U.S. adults have a smartphone and 45 percent own a tablet. Smartphone ownership is nearing the saturation point with some [...]
