If I could turn back time, if I could find a way... -- Cher, American singer and actress. I’ve always lived a fast-track life. I graduated from high school at 16. Undergraduate at 19. MBA at 21—the youngest at that time at the University of Colorado. At the rate I was going, I should really be
Centers of Excellence (COE) have been around in technology for over 30 years, but despite this longevity, COE means different things to different people. Like Lean and Kanban, the COE has its origin in manufacturing, where it is used as a centralized body to help improve factory operations and
Most of us are keen to give back to our community, but often end up asking ourselves “What, where, and how on earth can I fit it in?” As someone who organises volunteering…
Apparently today is “Show & Tell At Work Day.” Who knew? Almost any date on the calendar is a holiday to someone. As you plan your 2016 email calendar, consider including some B-List holidays in the mix. These less important holidays (compared to Valentine’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, and
Cross-posted from salesforce.com/au Positive Lending Solutions is a start-up finance-broker trying to survive in a challenging market. Getting the initial momentum for my business took a lot of persistence and innovative thinking. I’ve become aware…
Technology is constantly evolving, and businesses are becoming more and more dependent on technology to run their businesses efficiently. Here are just some of the ways technology has changed business for the better; by streamlining sales techniques and the sales process. Gordon Moore predicted
Today, we published new state of the art results on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Our model, which we call the Dynamic Memory Network (DMN), combines two lines of recent work on memory and attention mechanisms in deep learning.
The marketing and sales landscape looks vastly different from that of just a few decades ago. With the advent of the Internet, blogging, social media, and a myriad of digital communications channels, the path to purchase is not a simple, straight line, but a complex and varied web of twists.
“Nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day, you bet on people, not on strategy” -Lawrence Bossidy, former COO of General Electric. In the span of two years, I’ve interviewed over 1,000 sales candidates — and hired less than 50. As any sales