Communicate, Collaborate, and Innovate

This Month's Intelligent World continues to bring you the most important information that is relevant for your business activity... today. Our research group chooses the best articles published on both global business and internet technology that will help you think about your business now. Our multimedia approach finds the best in print, video, and audio and brings it to you directly.

In this issue of Intelligent World, we have highlighted a few of the major changes happening in today’s business environment – a global, internet marketplace for every company. Technology is one of the factors driving the rapid pace of those changes. As technology advances it allows us to communicate, collaborate, and innovate with unprecedented ease.

In our past few entries we have tried to emphasize the fact that change is the only constant in the global, Internet economy. Because the Internet has accelerated the rate of change, it is not about what happened in last 10 years, about what has changed in the last 3 years.Now, even small businesses are finding markets online through company websites and social media. In fact, in a recent study, Warrillow & Co. found that 40% of small businesses used blogs in their business, and small business blog readership increased by 122%. These are numbers that small business owners need to pay attention to.

In this global, internet economy, you can watch change happen and see the world pass you by, or you can be a part of the change. Every business must realize that it is a global, internet economy. The companies that realize this and transform their operations in a way that will allow them to use technology to communicate, collaborate, and innovate will flourish in this new, dynamic environment. The companies that don’t realize this – or worse, realize it and choose to do nothing – will fail.

Some questions for business owners to consider:

Do you have an Internet presence?

How are you using technology in your business?

How do you collaborate with your company’s staff?

If you are a business owner and cannot answer all of these questions, you might want to put some thought into it before the global, Internet economy shifts again.