The Best-Run Businesses Run SAP

Last night I had the honor of representing SAP as one of three finalists for the Anita Borg Institute Top Company for Technical Women Award.  I was delighted and proud to stand alongside Intuit and the 2012 Award Winner, American Express, as a leader in leveraging diversity for greater innovation. (more…)

Today’s retail business is a real-time, information-driven enterprise. Every customer interaction and movement of a product through a distribution network is measured and used to refine pricing strategies, update inventory decisions and tailor customer incentives on websites, email and mobile devices. (more…)

“When a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it can cause a hurricane in another part of the world.” This famous saying describes today’s complex business environment where trading relationships are global and interlinked. (more…)

When I first moved to California, I had the choice of renting a 700 square foot apartment for $650 per month and an 850 square foot apartment for $550 per month. Both were in the same building. The larger and less expensive one even had a better view. (more…)

Cleveland-based Safeguard Properties inspects and maintains more than a million foreclosed homes per month across the United States. (more…)

Think social media is just being used by large companies for gaming or brand awareness? Think again. (more…)

“The biggest cloud security problems are not with the data center – they’re with the cloud in our pocket.” (more…)

This week’s Decoded Fashion conference revealed that New York’s fashion designers are increasingly savvy users of technology, especially for creating engaging customer experiences — but the industry faces more wrenching change in the future. (more…)

Who suffers more when an employee loses his or her unprotected iPad, the large enterprise or a small business? In absolute dollars, probably the big company. (more…)

If a stretch of highway is often congested, we should add another lane to increase capacity. Wrong. (more…)