Leading Virtual Teams – Keys to Success

In today’s global and technology-enabled environment, working in virtual teams has become the norm rather than the exception. Companies expect employees to collaborate and work in both formal and informal virtual teams and contribute in a productive way to business results. The issue is that working virtually presents a set of communication and leadership challenges that leaders have not had to deal with in the past.

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SAP HANA is Like LED Floodlights for Business Data

“Bigger and faster” is a major understatement when describing the raw power of today’s high-performance databases and database appliances. Unless you’ve been stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific and have a volleyball named Wilson, you’ve probably heard terms like big data, columnar databases and predictive analytics more times than you’d like to admit. But there’s a good reason for that — we’re living in a database revolution and these terms describe tools that are nothing short of transformative to nearly any type of business.

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I Want More Money: What Certifications Should I Pursue?

In this series, I’ve embarked on an expedition to explore and filter through data from Global Knowledge’s eighth annual IT Skills and Salary Report to discover correlations in situations where professionals report a higher income. In this post, I’ve broken down the report’s most popular certifications to find which one leads to more money, based on the average reported salary.

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Why I Loved Attending the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Annual Conference

It was our first visit to the SHRM annual conference and it certainly won’t be the last. It was refreshing hearing HR and Learning and Development (L&D) professionals completely embracing the learning services and consulting underpinning of workforce management. They welcomed chats and even took surveys. It would be easy to simply stop there; however, practically every presentation made the case for positive change, and the lessons learned can be applied across the board.

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