Introduction Business Intelligence (BI) supports technologies for data analysis and provision of historical, current and predictive views of business operations across the enterprise. BI has evolved from data collecting into a more advanced business discipline. BI provides the capability to manage large volumes of complex structured and sometimes unstructured data Read more…
Introduction 2018 will be a watershed year for small and medium businesses (SMBs) as they invest and adopt new-digital transformation programs and emerging technologies with the capability to significantly improve efficiencies and effectiveness and boost positive financial impacts. In today’s business arena, traditional measurements of success no longer are acceptable. Read more…
Introduction Today, it is a reality that Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Cognitive Technologies can successfully emulate and supplement the power and processing of the human brain. This is a significant and valuable development for both the private and public sectors which have new and innovative opportunities to leverage and exploit Read more…
Introduction Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities. Risk management’s objective is to assure uncertainty does not deflect the endeavor Read more…
Introduction Information overload or infobesity is a term used to describe the complexity of understanding a problem and effectively making decisions when one has too much information about that topic. The term was popularized by Alvin Toffler in his bestselling 1970 book Future Shock. Information simply overload occurs when the Read more…
SharePoint 2016 is Microsoft’s full-function user-focused document management and collaboration tool with a software-as-a-service strategy at its core. Like SharePoint 2013, the product is offered in the Cloud as part of the Office 365 suite and is known as SharePoint Online; the on-premises version is known as SharePoint Server Read more…
Introduction The current digital economy is a true testimony of the success of companies that have embraced critical thinking as a mission-critical activity. For example, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft, and others continually collapse their product development time-frames, with critical thinking, and thus significantly upending competition while positively impacting revenue Read more…
Introduction Business and academia characteristically use a variety of terms and definitions to describe notions of effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity, as used in the workplace. However, the conditions are not always defined, interpreted, or accepted consistently within and across industries and organizations. The definitional confusion is typically concerned if the Read more…