Should a business invest their resources in developing a responsive website or is it equally as effective to have a non-responsive website design – one that costs less and perhaps requires less effort to develop?Spending resources on your website is an important...
This blog post and its associated images have been reproduced with the explicit permission of Your Doctors Online , MarkiTech’s healthcare portal. Judging the time and amount doctors invest in their studies, it is common for patients to expect...
Source: Cisco predictionsWhat a charming turn of phrase to describe a trend that has the potential for sinister, ubiquitous, paralyzing control of your life or the not so sinister but equally pervasive, liberating revolution in how you live: the Internet of Things...
We have already heard a lot and seen a lot of action with respect to companies moving towards an outsourcing model. We saw the HR functions outsourced, then other widespread functions like customer service call centres got the same treatment. Now we are seeing the...
The idea of disruptive innovation proposed by Clayton Christensen seems a very illusive goal for startups. How exactly can disruptive innovation be achieved? Companies seeking to introduce disruptive innovation continually sustain it by creating a minimum viable...
In the western world – Health care is a disaster waiting to happen especially with the aging population. With a myriad of new complex diseases hitting our population and the cost of medicare sky rocketing – technology could be a savior. The market is eager...
Big Data is the next big thingPer ABI Research 2013 report – Big Data spending was approx. $31B in 2013 – that spending is supposed to skyrocket to $114B by 2018. Nearly 60% of Decision Makers in a recent survey by CapGemini (Dec 2014) believe that Big Data...
The four “Ps,” Product, Pricing, Promotion, and Place have decided the fate of every ‘cash cow,’ ‘dog,’ ‘star,’ and ‘question mark’ ever brought to life. And ever since the rise of social, viral communities, ‘Promotion’ can now largely take place on the internet. That...
Do any of you Sci-Fi buffs out there remember that eighties movie “The Terminator” where the machines were interconnected throughout the planet and decided to take over the world? Well a more subtle version of that type of networking is becoming more of a...
I was reading an interesting article today and thought I would comment with my thoughts on the subject line. The conclusion of the article was that starting a new business is a leap of faith – the article articulates that 99% of new ideas and...