Tech Insights

Blue-collar Backlash: Are We Too Arrogant in IT?

By Mel McGee, Founder & CEO, We Can Code IT

Some things really get IT folks riled up. One of them is a recent article in Wiredclaiming that coding is the next big blue collar job. While it sounds like a sign of hope and opportunity, it’s created a...

Are We Creating An Insecure Internet of Things (IoT)? Security Challenges and Concerns

By Nermin Hajdarbegovic, Technical editor

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been an industry buzzword for years, but sluggish development and limited commercialization have led some industry watchers to start calling it the “Internet of...

Creating a Sustainable Innovation Program

By Armin Roeseler, CIO, Swanson Health Products

What is Innovation?
Innovations create value propositions that people are willing to pay for. They inspire game changing...

Big Data and Power of Hadoop

By Kartik Dave, Data Science, FedEx Services

The pace of IT has become really fast with traditional infrastructure not supporting the modern days demand for data, thus emerging technologies as Hadoop and its companion projects rising to the...

Analytics, Big Data And A Shocking Waste Problem

By Bernard Marr, Chief Executive, Advanced Performance Institute

It’s a shocking fact that in the 21st century more than three quarters of a billion people do not have access to enough food to keep themselves healthy, while 30% of the food produced around the...

3 Major Changes for Technology in the Manufacturing Industry

By Christopher Dean MD , Dean Group International

Technology is constantly changing no matter what industry you work in, and as we progress through time the manufacturing industry is having to adapt to many technological changes.

A bank financing the 21st century economy must act as an accelerator of the energy transition

By Jean-Laurent Bonnafe Director & CEO , BNP Paribas

Since the international community became acutely aware of the need for urgent action to limit global warming, and 195 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement in 2016, the world has embarked on a process of transition towards low-carbon energy.

A New Lifeline: Part 4 – An Integrated System for Disaster Management & Recovery

By Max Janasik, CPA, Vice President of Innovation , Cambia Health Solutions

Over the past three weeks, Nicole Cathcart and I have discussed various individual elements of Lifeline, a concept for redesigning emergency response. Today we’ll conclude with a summary of how the elements of Lifeline work together to transform disaster response and recovery.

Considerations for the Enterprise drone user

By Chris Blackford Co-Founder & COO,Sky-Futures

We are still at the dawn of the drone age for Enterprise. Education remains a key stage in the development of this market for Enterprise. They don’t know what they don’t know....

Manufacturing and Distribution in the Cloud: There's No Time Like the Present

By Sam Levy Vice President, NetSuite

If you're reading this, then it's quite possible you've thought about how your business strategy should drive your cloud adoption, have put some thought into who your cloud partner should be, and may even be actively grappling with how to approach implementation.

Marketing with AI: the next leap into the future

By Tamara McCleary, CEO, Thulium.co

I work with millennials. Call them what you will, but in my experience, the millennials I work with are some of the most brave, creative and intelligent people I know. Recently, while in a text conversation...

My first 90 days with HubSpot's Marketing Automation Platform

By Angela Goodridge Group Marketing Manager, Eclipx Group

Modern marketers are fast learning that a marketing automation platform is a must have tool to survive, but after the platform’s sales teams have left your office with their shiny pitches and endless promises – are marketing automation platform’s all they’re hyped up to be?

The Bermuda Triangle: poor financial knowledge

By Kai Friedrich, CEO, BNP Paribas

Does it stop? How? Should it? At the beginning of the Big Data era, the promise was to collect any data and do analytics on it like never before. Never before. Mere mortals could tease out new and...