You need to know how your business size fits into the world of business transfers. If your business does less than two million dollars buyers are likely to want you to hold paper either through a buyers note or an earn out.

By Alicia Robb, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

Chris Johnson, a VP Research & Development at LeanLogistics, published an article called Demystifying Supply Chain Optimization. This article resonated with me because I’m in the process of writing a Transportation Management System (TMS) Supplier Selection Guide. One section of this guide will…

Tuesday morning brought word that BlackBerry -- a company that was seriously imperiled in 2013 -- has enough money to make acquisitions. And it acquired document security company, WatchDox, for a price estimated at $70 million, according to the Wall Street Journal.

BlackBerry Limited announced a definitive agreement to acquire WatchDox Ltd., enhancing its mobile security offerings. The companies didn’t disclose the terms of the sale. WatchDox is a player in the crowded enterprise file-sync-and-share (EFSS) market. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto,…

In mid-April of this year INTERPOL launched its brand new cyber-division in Singapore – the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) – which I believe is a landmark achievement for the global state of cybersecurity. I’d been personally campaigning for something like this to happen for several…

A new website aims to create transparency by revealing the prices the largest national insurers pay for medical services.

Rob Carter is on the short list of the finest CIOs in history anywhere. I have profiled his accomplishments in an interview published roughly one year ago. A few months ago, Carter spoke at the Forbes CIO conference with his CEO, FedEx founder Fred Smith. First, it was readily apparent how much…

What are you really communicating to the people around you?

Per-meeting fees fade for board members in favor of fixed retainers.

Emerson Spartz started his first company at the age of 12, when he founded MuggleNet, which became the number one Harry Potter fan site. In his early teens, he managed a team that grew into the hundreds. He wrote best selling books, hosted the most listened to podcast, and dreamed of additional…

Box -- it lets "over 32 million people" store, share and retrieve data on the cloud -- loses enormous amounts of money and its growth rate is slowing down. Can Box survive as an independent company? Probably not.

For business leaders today, no task is more important than ensuring confidence and trust in the organizations they lead. The boardroom has woken up to the importance of security – and to the enormity of what it will take to protect company and consumer data from attacks.Bank of America CEO Brian…

Reacting to the threats of AI is an attempt by technologists and scientists to regulate themselves before governments do it for them, and not as well.

Taking a proactive approach to internationaliz­ation makes companies more robust and potentially more successful, with a far greater client base and more scope to e­xpand. While internationali­zation typically denotes big busi­ness carried out on a global scale, even the smallest companies can…