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IBM Exec Explains Why The Company Is Lending Small Businesses $4B To Upgrade...
Big data, cloud computing and smart, real time analytics have gotten so advanced that they’re available to all businesses, regardless of size, but not all small businesses can afford them. And, nearly...
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Our Education System Is Killing Creativity
The global war for talent proves that it will only get tougher for companies to attract and retain top talent.Employers need innovative minds, but this talent is increasingly hard to come by, because...
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Exactly One Year After JCPenney Swore Off Sales, It's Having A Sales Event (JCP)
On February 1, JCPenney will be holding a sales event, sources told us.But it's still not calling the "event" a "sale."The event seems to be a Valentine's Day sale for fine jewelry.It's happening...
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IKEA CEO: All This Red Tape Is Seriously Slowing Us Down
IKEA is planning a massive $20 billion global expansion.But it's being slowed down.Outgoing CEO MIkael Ohlsson told Anna Molin at The Wall Street Journal that red tape is causing problems, explaining...
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JOB OF THE WEEK: Director, Strategic Analytics
Check out the Business Insider Jobs section >>As part of our new partnership with CareerBuilder.com, each week we'll feature one of the awesome jobs advertised on the Business Insider jobs...
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The 10 Things Innovative Companies Do To Stay On Top
Innovation isn't this abstract thing that some companies have and some don't.Innovation is actually a business skill that executives and employees can develop and master.So says Booz & Company...
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SURGEON: Here's How I Tell People They're Going To Die
At dinner the other night, I sat next to Dr. Rebecca Brooks, who is gynecologic oncologist and assistant professor at the University of California San Francisco.Dr. Brooks operates on many patients...
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Data Is 'The Oil Of This Century' For Small Businesses
In the past, "big data" as it's come to be called was mostly limited to big companies with whole business intelligence functions and massive investments.Now, it's democratized to the point where you...
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Retailers Are Using 5 Brilliant Tactics To Outsmart Amazon
Amazon makes a lot of brick-and-mortar retailers nervous. "They're increasingly pushing in-store sales online, where they're almost inevitably cheaper," Karl Heiselman, the CEO of Wolff Olins, told us....
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New York Starbucks Baristas Can Thank This Attorney For Better Working...
When companies treat employees poorly, the costs can be astronomical.Daniel Gross, a Starbucks barista- turned-lawyer, says most companies who are sued for workers' compensation spend anywhere between...
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4 Easy Ways To Get People To Remember What You Say
This week I quoted Ken Koedinger, a professor of human-computer interaction and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, as saying that experts can articulate only about 30 percent of what they know....
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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Says You Can't Have An Agenda With Everyone You Meet
Tony Hsieh is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Zappos, the online shoe and clothing retailer he now runs. He's also co-founder of the Downtown Project, which is seeking to revitalize Las Vegas's...
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People Remember Facebook Posts More Than Most Things They Read
I found this fascinating (and as a writer who labors over her prose, a little dismaying):“Surprising new findings suggest an individual will remember a Facebook post longer than they’ll retain the...
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How To 'Incubate' An Awesome Idea
Psychologist Christian Jarrett explains how to “incubate” a creative idea—a process in which your unconscious makes novel links between concepts during a period when you’re not actively thinking about...
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Knowing A Lot Doesn't Have Much To Do With Success
One time or another, you’ve had the thought running through your head that if you only knew more you would be more successful in life.It’s only natural to think that. Most of the first 20 years of your...
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Proof That You Can Get Over Anything
There's a school of psychology which holds that happiness is subjective. Good or bad things happen in life, but people return to the same base level of happiness.This theory, while up for debate in...
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Exclusive With GUESS Exec on How The Company Turned Its Business Around With...
Just two years ago, clothing retailer Guess? had some serious merchandising issues.“Our buyers were working off a system where merchandise was represented by a long number, and it was hard to tell the...
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How To Make Your Early Investors Rich Without An IPO Or Acquisition
For many entrepreneurs, having a successful company means facing a tough decision.How do you exit in a way that's satisfactory to both yourself and your investors?If you've taken money from investors,...
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Victoria's Secret Has A Model-Casting Tactic That Sells Tons Of Underwear
Victoria's Secret sells so much underwear that it's the envy of the retail world. And key to its success are its models, which fuel the retailer's famous fashion show and usually become celebrities in...
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Without Big Data Business Travel Would Be Impossible
Ever wonder how much data is analyzed in real-time during an average business trip? Let's start with boarding passes. For a boarding pass to be generated, your itinerary must pass through a few...
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