Business consultants have been talking about “digital transformation” for years, and many global enterprises have enthusiastically embraced the concept. In a recent e-book*, entitled “Enterprise digital transformation as a competitive…
Management consulting firm McKinsey advises companies to carefully consider a range of potential impacts associated with how an organization structures its post-pandemic workforce. In an article* from a recent issue…
When it comes to data security, what you don’t know CAN hurt you. According to a study by IBM, the global average cost of a data breach in 2020 was $3.86…
A friend of Northern Light, recalling a former colleague at a major pharmaceutical company, said, “My boss would tell people Northern Light SinglePoint will make you the smartest person in…
Over 20 years ago in 1999, I wrote an essay called “Musings on the Future of Information.” The essay was published in a collection edited by Alison Scammell, i in…
The currency of market research and competitive intelligence is extremely valuable in its own right Back in the day, the first functional area within corporations to be computerized was finance. …
Don't have formal competitive intelligence and market research functions? Consider Content Collections. Since Bill Gates first articulated the idea (and phrase) “content is king” 25 years ago in a blog…
Since it’s the holiday season, we are focusing this month’s blog post on a topic long associated with this time of year: the wish list. We’re not talking about the…
Anyone who has ever taken high school biology is familiar with the term taxonomy. It is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms, and includes all plants, animals and…
