The problems with traditional management, including budgeting 1. The Beyond Budgeting principles and companies on the journey 2. Statoil's "Ambition to Action" model: - redefining performance - dynamic and relative with a holistic performance evaluation - dynamic forecasting and resource allocation and no traditional budgets - from calendar-driven to event-driven; a...

Customer service relates to the service you and your staff provide before, during and after a purchase. It's how you interact with your customers. Improving your customer service skills can lead to greater customer satisfaction and experience. How to provide good customer experience? You need to know know what your customers consider to...

People care about their future career because it will likely play a major role in determining their livelihood and overall direction in life. They may be interested in finding a career that aligns with their interests and passions, or that will provide them with a sense of purpose and fulfillment.  They...

According to an Uber case study, Uber’s arrival in Chicago in 2011 changed how people get around the city. For decades, people in Chicago experienced poor taxi services. In the past three years, taxi passengers filed nearly 36,000 complaints, major issues are related to •    reckless driving and rude driver behaviour...

What is hot topic today in technology? Human has achieved many in the past, we landed on the moon, created the Internet, and cured many of the most pressing diseases that plagued us. The digital health sector also matures from basic tracking apps and moves into highly regulated medical devices, an...

Recent years, from payments to wealth management, from peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, “fintech” firms are growing rapidly.  These “fintech” firms which are familiar to the public include Lending Club, OnDeck, Venmo, Rate Setter and SocietyOne. Lending Club alone, funded about $2 billion loans last quarter, and their lending to-date is more...

Fintech (financial technology) comprises a wide range of technologies that are disrupting traditional financial services, including mobile payments, money transfers, loans, fundraising, and asset management. How Fintech is impacting you? If you are starting a business and need fund to operate, you would go to your bank to ask for a...

Unicorns born in China are on the Rise. CBinsight publishes a research brief to show where did those private companies worth more than $1 billion came from. There are 214 unicorn startups, 127 were born in US, 59 from China, 12 from UK, 9 from India and 8 from Germany. Those ones...

If you are running a startup, you would want to know, like many others, why startups fail. The research company CB Insights studied many cases and highlighted the top 20 reasons which you could learn from. #20 – Failure to pivot when necessary. Not pivoting away or quickly enough from a...

Spotify is a great way to share your love of music with people all over the world. It is launched on 7 October 2008, is available in 65 regions.Spotify went public in April this year, so how Spotify grew from a startup into a public company? Let's have a look on...

A report of Retail Tech 100 winners was compiled by CB Insights includes private, active business-to-business (B2B) retail tech companies from 21 countries across 13 overarching categories. These companies were selected out of nearly 15,000 applicants and nominees based on metrics including patent activity, business relations, investor profiles, news sentiment analysis, proprietary...

Metaverse is a relatively new concept and is still in the early stages of development. However, there is growing interest and investment in the metaverse from a variety of sources, including technology companies, media organizations, and venture capital firms. The metaverse is often described as a virtual world that is created...

The artificial intelligence technology is moving fast. Among which, Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) technology has moved to a new level and started to generate amazing results. Gen-AI is an AI which can generate the data for a specific purpose, this could be the new content such as a blog articles, music,...

A Brain Implant That Turns Your Thoughts Into Text? How it could be possible? Tom Oxley is a brain-computer interface specialist and the founder and CEO of Synchron, a neural interface technology company. He is A/Professor and Laboratory Head of the Vascular Bionics Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the...

This year's Snowflake Summit is coming and it is a four-days' event and is data focused. People and organizations that comprise the Data Cloud are expected to join the event and there will be discussions and talks around developing new data products and data apps. If you are interested in data...

Come across this TED talk which was published some years ago but still interesting enough to engage me from start to the end. The talk is about personal robots and how they can be useful for people. There are already some use cases - an assistant robot could help daily tasks...

A letter from the VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram revealed that VMware has entered into an agreement with Broadcom. He advised that after the successful transaction, VMware would become the software platform and brand for Broadcom. The letter reads “We will provide enterprise customers an expanded suite of mission-critical solutions to accelerate...

Netflix is now offering video games. It has moved beyond TV shows and films, and started in launching Netflix games on mobile. As per Netflix, from November, members everywhere can play five mobile games: Stranger Things: 1984 (BonusXP), Stranger Things 3: The Game (BonusXP), Shooting Hoops (Frosty Pop), Card Blast (Amuzo...

Today, you can buy shoes online at 2 o’clock in the morning from bed, you can join online discussion groups to see people’s opinions and reviews, and chat with family members with low cost, you probably worked from home some time in the last a few months. The pace of people’s...

During the pandemic, the online sales increased significantly, with this trend, the “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) companies thrived. Shoppers want the good and services with a seamless delayed payment option. Today, the “buy now, pay later” only has a small portion of overall card spending. However, according to CB Insights’s...

Research company CBInsights analyzed emerging trends and identified companies pioneering technology with the potential to transform cybersecurity covering 14 areas. Disinformation detectionDecentralised digital identityPassword-less identificationPrivacy by designAnomalous behaviour detectionThird party risk managementPatch protectionCredential stuff defenceZero-trust networkingBot-assisted networkingMulti-cloud securityOutsourced data protectionContainer securityMedical device security Source & Cover Image: CBInsights;