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Top 6 elements of effective vendor meetings
One of the best things resulting from our startup's acquisition by EDS was formalized training on the value of planning effective meetings. EDS folks were religious about holding successful meetings. They trained us to develop an Executive...
Top 3 challegnes for massive success of IOT devices
During the 2015 symposium on IoT (internet of things), the keynote speaker from Silicon Labs declared that by 2025 we could have more than 94 billion IoT devices. Depending on where you took your high school Math class, that comes to about 10...
Top 3 secrets of sourcing top talent in Silicon Valley
Several weeks ago, I blogged about the Candidate Experience and how instrumental it can be to attract top talent to your company. After all, it's the opportunity to make a positive first impression of your company. But the candidate experience does...
Who is responsible for the horrible User Interface on Linkedin
It's been several weeks now that I have been frustrated by Linkedin's latest Messaging interface which is cruder than Howard Stern's comedy. My 1st observation about the odd nature of the interface came when I tried to reply to a message and...
Blame the jockey not the horse in Facebook Ad conversions
Facebook is a powerful horse when it comes to generating a huge number of impressions and relevant clicks. In fact, the latest video data just released is staggering where more than 1 billion video views happen every 24 hours on Facebook. So it's...
So you want to be a Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)?
It was 1996 when I met Duane Zitzner EVP of Personal Systems Group. HP was being challenged by the upstart Dell and all the resellers complained that it was easier to work with Compaq than HP. The challenges that Duane needed to solve were not...
