Natural Employee Engagement
How can we help make employee engagement a natural part of our organization? If your company has recently completed an engagement survey, this is likely to be a question you hear more than once. There are a number of ways that organizations can help make this happen. The ones that I encounter most often are [...]
Momentum for Medical Device Tax Repeal
Although the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision supporting the Affordable Care Act has made many people happy, there are still some who are working to repeal at least part of it. The Wall Street Journal reported that efforts to repeal the 2.3 percent medical device tax are continuing to gain momentum. In April, the U.S. [...]
Greece’s Debt Labyrinth
According to USA Today, a potential debt deal for Greece appeared to stumble yesterday as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras suggested that international creditors did not accept the latest round of reform proposals from Athens. Global markets, which have been gaining all week on expectations that a last-minute deal is likely, declined as a result [...]
BMW and Audi Challenge Tesla Electric SUV
BMW is reportedly developing an all-electric crossover aimed squarely at the upcoming Tesla Model X. According to Automotive News, the unnamed SUV has yet to be approved by BMW’s board of directors. The report, originally appearing in a German business magazine, was dismissed as “speculation” by a BMW spokesperson. That being said, BMW CEO Harald [...]
The Status of Succession Management
If you are a CEO, an executive team member or a leader heading up a business unit or corporate function, there are some important questions to keep in mind regarding leadership continuity. Who is your successor? Who is your successor’s successor? How often do you review your bench strength? How effective is your pipeline that [...]
Short Messages Crash Skype and iPhone
For all of you Skype users, be careful what you type when you send someone a link. Typing the wrong characters could crash the program for the person receiving the link and require reinstallation of Skype. According to VentureBeat, Skype users recently discovered a nasty bug in the app. Sending the characters “http://:” (without the quotes) [...]
J&J, Takeda and OrbiMed Incubator Aid Israel Fundraising
Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Takeda Pharmaceutical and venture capital firm OrbiMed have helped Israel break life science fundraising records through key investments such as establishing a biotech incubator. The biotech incubator, FutuRx, is the fruit of many months of work by Johnson & Johnson Innovation (the research development arm of J&J) along with Takeda [...]
Drone Use by 40 Percent of Businesses
In less than five years, the use of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles – UAVs) could become common practice for almost 40 percent of businesses. In the next 10 years, it could be common practice for 85 percent of businesses. This information comes from a 2015 survey of corporate risk managers conducted by Munich Re. What [...]
Demand and Innovation Increase for Sensor Technologies
According to Headwaters, an investment bank in Denver, the $85 billion sensor market has grown at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 7.5 percent over the past three years. This market is expected to grow to more than $115 billion by 2019. Nowhere is demand more significant than in the industrial space, [...]
CIO Finesse, CISO Drive and Hijacking Management
If you are a CIO or CISO looking to enhance your knowledge and continue to build your business network, there are two opportunities coming up in the next month. 1) I will be speaking at the Minneapolis CIO Executive Summit on June 3, 2015. The title of this session is Enhancing Leadership Finesse in IT [...]
