Remote leading is not entirely different from leading on-site. I worked with remote teams for some years in several contexts, but for now, working remotely is the current reality for many of us. I’m still learning and trying different approaches, and of course, I’m making some mistakes along the way. However, I would like to[…]
Innovation
Last week Facebook and a consortium of 27 partners announced the cryptocurrency Libra (a reference to the Roman measurement for a pound), new global money, and the foundation for a new universe of financial services. They want to make the first Libra coins available to the public in 2020. Okay, that’s a magnificent vision, but[…]
Robots can pour you a coffee, cook your dinner, and your dessert. However, just because robots make the food doesn’t mean that it hasn’t human- work to be done. At Creator, for example, the robot isn’t the point. The point is what the robot allows the restaurant to do—things that are potentially industry-shaking. This precise[…]
Many people believe creating a product or innovating, is a mysterious or magical thing. I receive many people from different countries here in San Francisco trying to understand why Silicon Valley is one of the most innovative places in the world, and how they can discover and create “the next big thing,” but there is[…]
I supposed that you heard about The Lean Startup, learned, or applied even some pieces of this method in your startup or in some product development that you tried to validate. If you are an entrepreneur, you probably know this methodology proposed in 2008 by Eric Ries, using his personal experiences adapting lean management and[…]
An article published recently in the IoT News highlighted the main advantages for small and medium businesses with the use of connected devices, and they are not few. For example, the massification of smartphones and smartwatches. These devices generate and store data from multiple specialties and can influence even business operations. The cloud-based software solutions[…]
It is no surprise that new machine learning technologies and the power to analyze large amounts of data have created unique opportunities in the e-commerce industry. Thanks to data-driven enhancements for ads, upselling, and cross-selling, online shoppers are able to get “what they want, when they want”. Such transformation had a direct impact on business[…]
Increasingly we are connected to our smartphones, tablets and laptops without being limited to any type of cable or physical space. According to the survey released by Deloitte for the NRF in 2015, 40% of consumers now use their smartphones to research products in the physical store. Although the largest investments in omnichannel are being[…]
Sometimes in life things can go wrong. That also happens in small and medium businesses. It’s a truth: every company has a problem! In Brazil 60% of small companies get closed in the first year, in U.S. 7 out of 10 new small businesses survive at least two years. These are some real problems we[…]
