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The Cloud Is Taking Predictive Analytics to New Heights With the growth of cloud computing, smaller companies are taking advantage of the increased flexibility, decreased storage restraints, and expanded network of information available on the cloud. Read more to find out how the cloud could give your company an advantage in fulfilling customers' needs. |
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Best of Breed vs. Integrated Systems: The Battle Continues The debate between buying best of breed software products versus fully integrated systems has raged on for as long as there have been integrated platforms. There are pros and cons for each approach, but the interesting thing about this debate is that there is no clearly defined right or wrong. |
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The Marriage of the Technology Industry and MBA Graduates In recent years there has been an increased demand among MBA graduates to find jobs in the technology sector. Technology MBAs are becoming popular and offer students excellent employment options to pursue their programs. Rajini Padmanaban looks at this increasingly popular marriage of two fields. |
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Quitters Sometimes Do Win: How to Recognize and Confront Sunk Costs From Freakonomics coauthor Stephen Dubner: "A ‘sunk cost’ is just what it sounds like: time or money you've already spent. The sunk-cost fallacy is when you tell yourself that you can't quit because of all that time or money you spent. We shouldn't fall for this fallacy, but we do it all the time." |
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Companies Going from Public to Private—Is This a New Trend? In the lifecycle of a company an IPO is a significant milestone to generate the required funds to empower its operations. The mandates that follow from going public can make a company lose its long-term vision. Rajini Padmanaban profiles companies who are going from public to private. |
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How Tech Companies Can Make Gamification Go to Work for Them Gamification isn’t just about leaderboards and having fun at work. This technique has become an increasingly valuable business practice for understanding which behaviors will drive desired outcomes. From increasing sales to getting more feedback from users, gamification is establishing real worth. |
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Google's Organization-Wide Innovation Strategies Organizations that adopt a well thought-out strategy toward innovation and are able to allocate the required resources for it set themselves up to emerge as market leaders in the long run—both tactically and strategically. Rajini Padmanaban profiles Google's organization-wide innovation strategies. |
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Cloud Computing Could Be the Ticket for Project Managers and Analysts With the rapid advancements in technology, perhaps no job title is truly immune from possible layoffs. But could your project management or business analysis skills on your resume help you keep—or even land—the job of your dreams? Eric Bloom thinks that you can find job security in cloud computing. |
