Business Innovation & the Internet of Things: How Leaders Create Game-Changing Ideas Find photos below from last Friday’s Senior Executive Roundtable with MIT-technologist and best-selling author Kevin Ashton. Photos by Enrique Lopez.
By all outward signs, business was booming at Blink UX, a Seattle-based user experience research and digital product design firm: 287 percent growth in three years, with 53% in 2013 alone as the industry picks up speed. But CEO Karen Clark Cole was beginning to hear rumblings of discontent. Like many small businesses (Blink has
As a working mom, I rarely pick up my ringing phone without a sense of trepidation. Will it be my son’s school, calling once again to say he is sick and in need of a midday pick up before he infects the rest of his kindergarten class? My husband and I have grown adept at
Dr. Louis W. (Jody) Fry is the founder of the International Institute for Spiritual Leadership and a professor at Texas A&M Central Texas. Fry’s most recent book is titled Maximizing the Triple Bottom Line through Spiritual Leadership (Stanford University Press, 2013) and examines business models that integrate ethics, leadership, employee well-being, sustainability, social responsibility, profitability,
Dr. Rodney Ludema (left) makes last minute adjustments to a classroom presentation while brother Dr. Jim Ludema observes. White House Senior Economist Addresses Globalization, Instability, and Market Changes Dr. Rodney Ludema, a senior economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and a professor at Georgetown, recently taught executive students at Benedictine’s doctoral program in values-driven
Instagram provides users with filters to change the appearance of their photos, giving an immediate “wow” factor to casual shots. Photo credit Invantory via Flickr. Last week Facebook bought Instagram, the photo editing software application, for a figure reported to be near $1 billion in cash and shares. I heard the news on NPR while