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While plastic is convenient, durable, and cheap, 50% of all plastics (about 150 million tons every year, worldwide) are used only once and then thrown away. Even for those who dutifully recycle our plastic water bottles and sandwich bags, we’re only tackling a small part of the problem. That’s because heavy winds and rain carry huge amounts of plastic waste along city streets and into the stormwater system, where it likely flows directly into creeks, rivers, bays, and eventually the ocean, with no treatment to filter out plastics. “Considering the size of the problem, there’s relativ ..read more

The debate continues on who actually said the phrase: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Was it Peter Drucker or was it former-CEO of Ford Motor Company, Mark Fields?  Never the less, it is a phrase that can be attributed in today’s world of security. The best of intentions and planning can never equal the commitment and aptitude to execute. It is the security culture of today’s modern businesses that has the greatest impact to their success over all the strategic planning. This “security culture” is often the greatest driver in helping organizations shift from the mindset of leveragi ..read more

By Toni Boger, Content Strategist, Content4Demand Medium and midsize businesses used to live in the shadow of their bigger competitors when it came to technology and best practices. They lacked the deep pockets needed to refresh and maintain the latest in hardware and software, and their employees were too focused on running the business to worry about best practices. Not anymore. Cloud technology has leveled that field so that every business has equal access to the latest advanced technologies and up-to-date business systems—and all the benefits that come with them. Highly productive sectors ..read more

Winter typically calls for cold weather and holiday festivities. For many businesses, it also signals the busiest time of the year. With only 22 days between Cyber Monday and Christmas, businesses and consumers alike are feeling pressed for time. According to Adobe Analytics, online holiday shopping between the months of November and December in the United States is projected to be $143.7B, a 14.1% growth compared to last year. With the increase in seasonal purchases, a unified logistics process is vital for getting orders to your customers quickly, accurately, and efficiently. In today’s mode ..read more

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For medium and midsize businesses, retiring their on-premise systems and moving entirely to the cloud all at once isn’t possible—or at the very least, it’s not something they’re comfortable doing for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile, staying the course and ignoring all the advantages of enterprise resource planning (ERP) as a cloud solution is no longer an ideal path, either. One way to approach this problem is to consider a hybrid deployment. This model uses one or more cloud applications in conjunction with existing legacy ERP. With this smaller, yet important, step toward the cloud any busin ..read more

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Creating a work environment that appeals to all the generations found in today’s workplace can be challenging. The companies that truly get it focus their time and energy on maximizing their employee’s potential, bringing everyone to the table, and providing experiences and training that benefit both company and employees. As I write in my book Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth many companies have realized that the way to get good people is to actually treat them as if they’re good people. Show them that they matter. To do that you need to find out what’s impor ..read more

Car-sharing startup GreenGo offered just 45 electric cars to customers in Budapest when it launched its eco-friendly service in 2016. A year later, the company had expanded its fleet to several hundred Volkswagen e-up! vehicles in the city. Cofounder and managing director Bálint Michaletzky knew the company needed 300 cars in Budapest to reach its profit targets, but what he didn’t know was how the company was going to operate such a fast-growing mobile business. “We didn’t have the technology infrastructure to remotely track so many cars, open them, lock them up, send invoices, and ..read more