This year more than ever it's imperative to understand Digital Transformation and why it is so crucial to the survival and success of your business. Executives and managers need to fully understand the Digital Transformation trend to plan for the future. Lack of training and proper knowledge is one of the primary reasons for Digital Transformation failure.

Check out our infographic below featuring the Top 6 Digital Transformation Training Topics that we provide to executives and management teams to help them digitally transform their business.

The Digital Transformation megatrend is fundamentally disrupting and changing every industry, business and most jobs at a rapid pace. Many executives and managers are struggling with understanding this megatrend and what it means to them and their organization. Digital Transformation affects everything from updating the company vision and strategy, to educating CEOs, CIOs and management teams on the significant changes that are taking place today.  

Does the fast pace of changing technology stress you out? You’re not alone. It seems almost impossible to keep up with the accelerating pace of emerging technologies and information overload these days. It’s no wonder that executives, managers and employees are feeling stressed out trying to adapt and adjust to all the disruptions and changes taking place in organizations around the world. And this is just the beginning...

Last week we woke up to a beautiful Sunday morning and the temperature was forecast to reach 90° that day. So my wife and I decided to go to Half Moon Bay Beach (in the San Francisco Bay Area).

As we were driving to the beach, we decided to stop at the new Dunkin' Donuts (formerly Popeye’s fried chicken) that just opened up in Half Moon Bay, located at Hwy 92 and Hwy 1). 

We parked the car and got in line to buy some coffee and donuts.  While we we're standing there, I realized that I had left my wallet and all my money sitting on my desk at home.  It turns out that my wife Alana also didn't bring her purse or any money.

Meditation and mindfulness is becoming mainstream in business as a way of helping professionals deal with the daily stress of work and personal lives in today’s chaotic world. A little realized business trend is training executives and employees how to reduce stress which in turn helps them to become more focused, productive and innovative. And compassionate.

One of the people leading this charge is Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, one of the world’s most successful business leaders - and a big fan of meditation and mindfulness. So much so that he recently put meditation rooms on every floor in his new prestigious Salesforce building in San Francisco. 

I attended a very interesting conference on Digital Transformation in San Francisco last month. During one of the sessions, a speaker made a very simple point that I jotted down and thought about on the way home later that day... and again over the next weekend. Here's what he said:

An executive who understands and invests in this Digital Transformation process will reduce their business risk, save time and result in a much higher success rate over their competition.

Check out the Infographic below featuring the Five Key Steps you need to take for a successful Digital Transformation implementation of your business. We can help you in any (or all) of the five steps.

Just about all Fortune 1000 company CEOs have Digital Transformation as one of their top 3-5 priorities for this year (and for the next few years.)  Watch the above video from Davos 2016 to discover what six top CEOs learned from digitally transforming their companies.

 

Sales and Marketing teams are always trying to come up with creative ideas for implementing fun marketing and sales events.  This article gives you some great tips for brainstorming, ideas for calendar-event based themes - and when and where to plan the best Sales and Marketing events every year.

A Digital Transformation Megatrend is rippling through every industry, business and job around the world at a breathtaking pace.  If you're working in Sales and Marketing, you should be paying very close attention to this trend.

Please don't shoot the messenger... in the next few years look for an increase in marketing automation investments and a reduction of inside and outside enterprise sales rep jobs.

The Digital Transformation megatrend is dramatically changing the way executives, management and employees collaborate and communicate in the workplace. With technology evolving at such a rapid pace, it's more important now than ever before to keep up your skill sets and adapt to new ways of doing business. More than 50-percent of the jobs of tomorrow aren't even in existence at this time - infact no one has even thought of them yet! Continuous learning, personal development and coaching are a necessity in all aspects of life to survive and thrive the Digital Transformation megatrend that is just beginning.

The Digital Transformation megatrend that we are all experiencing today is causing many Small and Midsized Businesses (SMBs) to evaluate their current business strategies and technologies.  One of the fastest ways to improve your business is to upgrade your website and add a modern eCommerce function.  The following is a list of the top eCommerce platforms and websites for Small and Midsized Businesses (SMBs).