Mobile and Analytics By @VAIsoftware | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

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To remain competitive in 2015, midmarket companies must consider the advantages of adding mobile capabilities and analytics to their existing ERP systems. Investing in mobile and analytics technology can lead to improved cost and operational efficiencies, expanded real-time collaboration with customers, vendors and partners, as well as faster and more personalized customer experiences.

Security as a Business Enabler: The Long View, from the trenches

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Much has been said in the last five years about how security “needs a seat at the business table”. When this is uttered by a security professional, usually among other security professionals, everyone typically nods and looks at one another knowingly, as if this is a foregone conclusion. Well, it’s not.

David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?

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As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to change that. His research into our brain processes has led him to create new interfaces -- such as a sensory vest -- to take in previously unseen information about the world around us.

Beware of These Prospects

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Wishy-washy answers. Heel dragging. Elusiveness. Favoritism toward competitors. And, sometimes, downright unethical behavior. We’ve all experienced at least a few of these aggravations while going through the qualification process with prospects. 

Fostering Cultural Intelligence in International Negotiations

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In a Harvard Business Review article, P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski describe the value of improving your cultural intelligence, or the ability to make sense of unfamiliar contexts and adapt to them. Some people are naturally skilled at determining whether a person’s behavior is unique to him or determined by his culture. For others, this process requires more effort. Regardless, this ability is important for successful international negotiations.

How Automation Transformed a Distributor’s Online Business

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This MarketingSherpa Blog post features a video interview conducted by Allison Banko, former MarketingSherpa Reporter, with Lenny Kharitonov, President, Unlimited Furniture Group, a furniture retailer. They discussed how automation transformed Unlimited Furniture’s online business.

Robyn Stein DeLuca: The good news about PMS

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Everybody knows that most women go a little crazy right before they get their period, that their reproductive hormones cause their emotions to fluctuate wildly. Except: There's very little scientific consensus about premenstrual syndrome. Says psychologist Robyn Stein DeLuca, science doesn't agree on the definition, cause, treatment or even existence of PMS. She explores what we know and don't know about it -- and why the popular myth has persisted.

Social Media is the New Quality Control

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If your product is fantastic, when identified and energized your Advocates will spread the word like wildfire. Social networks and traditional word-of-mouth will start buzzing with your product, and sales will reflect your Advocates’ delight. But your advocates won’t try to get someone to buy your sub-par product, and they certainly won’t apologize for you or your ... Read more

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