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Why Is Amazon the Most Powerful Platform in the World?

Bezos builds businesses like no one else — and arguably better than anyone. Each of Amazon’s five major divisions would be multi-multi-billion dollar businesses...

What can we Expect from 5G?

Just as 4G brought us quick and reliable streaming, 5G promises untold advances in communications technology. Boasting speeds 100x faster than 4G LTE, new oppor...

Digital Transformation, Digitalization, and Digitization

Who is also confused by the terms digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation? Being in a digital role I am critical of this topic because I usuall...

The irony is that startups want to be corporates and vice versa

.png) I haven't written anything in a long time, let's hope I'm not that rusty - although this article gives my perspective on both worlds after my startup acqu...

How to Stay Creative in Corporate

First, try this, right now: Think of a person who you consider to be creative. I’m willing to bet you didn’t think of yourself. Very few people think they are c...

25 Cool Apps for Digital Nomads

Writing this article I am reminded about two years ago when I was starting out in the tech startup scene. My partners and I had to be super frugal so we always ...

Precision vs accuracy in digital analytics

Short version: You will lose a valuable portion of your life worrying about the accuracy of digital analytics data. Accuracy does not exist! Get over it. Focus ...

Automation breaking barriers

The more I think about it the more I am convinced that automation forces us to re-visit, re-evaluate and re-think some of the fundamental “building blocks” of s...

Blueprint for digital agility

For IT leaders to succeed in today’s culture of disruption, they have to close the gap between business and information. They have to unite people, information ...

Automation In The Logistic Systems

Implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Automation within SCM in unison are expected to raise the productivity margin to a whole new level in the coming y...

The Ugly Truth About Being an Entrepreneur

I’m here to give it to you straight friends: the gritty truth about being an entrepreneur. Many individuals would gladly sacrifice the 9–5 grind for a chance at...

Are Technologists Ready for the Data Commodity of Ambient Intelligence?

Savvy consumers today are aware that marketers and corporate companies mine personal data from mobile phones and computers, sourced primarily from search engine...

The Holy Grail of Corporate Innovation

In the corporate innovation world, it has been well established that the ‘Corporates AND Startups’ mindset (Collaboration) is the way to move ahead with instead...

Evolution and Entrepreneurship

If you ask people what Charles Darwin is famous for, most will probably tell you the theory of evolution. Darwin’s contribution to biology is not inventing evol...

How to build a winning startup culture

My inspiration for this post comes from my entrepreneurial journey and experience. Building a strong culture takes vision, continuous assessment and deliberate ...

Working for a “Big Company” Can Be Fun, If . . .

Big companies don’t innovate fast enough. Big companies tend to build a “kill-zone” around themselves. They destroy everything and everyone that gets too close....

Blockchain in supply chain

Supply chains are riven with inefficiencies and problems. Blockchain can help — and the first applications are already being trialled. With the increasing globa...

Best Marketing Tools for Startups & Entrepreneurs

Email Octopus Email marketing for next to nothing, via Amazon SES. Currently you only have to pay your Amazon SES fees. They give you 62,000 emails a month for ...

9 Helpful Sales Tools for Startups

Selling is hard—especially early on in the lifecycle of a company, when potential customers have no idea who you are or what you have to offer. The nine product...

Some free tools for startups

When you’re starting a company, there often isn’t a lot of money to make your business grow. Especially at the early stage, free advice, tools, and resources ma...