Weekly Reports

CYBERCRIME IS APPROACHING $5 TRILLION OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY, enabled by a thriving online marketplace where hackers sell tools and services to criminals. Their shopping list ranges from as little as $1 for malware installation; to $25 for a password, fake... Continue

TODAY’S SMARTPHONES, FOR MANY, CREATE AN ADDICTION which, in combination with social media feeds & links, can consume up to 12 hours a day. The average iPhone or Android user evidently checks in about 80 times a day, which “scientific... Continue

TECHNOLOGY CONTINUES TO CHANGE OUR WORLD at an accelerating pace as SOFTWARE TOOLS disrupt most industries and worker needs. UBER and AIRBNB, for example – now the biggest taxi and hotel companies in the world – don’t own cars or... Continue

AS ORGANIZATIONS GROW with data, analytics and algorithms providing powerful inputs and methods for decision-making, the impact is that “organizational complexity clouds accountability and, as the number of decision-makers rises, leaders are less able to delegate authority effectively.” This situation... Continue

• FIVE STARTUP BUSINESS MISTAKES that consistently “lead to frustration, dissention, poor performance, and often failure” almost always stem from: (1) Lack of strategic planning to encompass clarity & consensus of owners/managers as to Goals, Objectives, and Timelines; (2) Shortcutting... Continue