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By Lalit Dhingra, Founder & CEO, Ensignis Digital Thirty-four billion –the number of devices Business Insider predicts will be connected to the internet by 2020. And shockingly, only 10 billion of those will be smartphones. Instead, the balance will combine refrigerators, fitness trackers, and thermostats. With this rapid influx of internet-connected devices, it is no …

The Internet of Things is coming – What Does It Mean for Business? Read More »

By Lalit Dhingra, Founder & CEO, Ensignis Digital In today’s world, almost all organizations need a different leader with the intelligence to integrate the existing and new skills effectively. Since the world is going digital – let’s call this leader a “Digital Leader.” Digital Enterprise journal (DEJ) has clearly defined the leader’s traits for a …

Leadership in Digital World – A perspective Read More »

With all of the forces affecting the business cycle, companies typically focus human resource management on hiring plans, competitive strategy, and resource allocation. Is this leading to a winning team or just creating a mediocre organization? Most organizations get distracted, lose perspective, or let biases cloud decisions when picking the best talent. Winning teams must …

Building a Winning Team is So Damn Hard Read More »

A few years back, when I entered my office, I heard a voice addressing me as “Boss” I looked back and saw a manager from my finance department, who wanted to hand over some reports. I asked myself why people use the term Boss – the most abused term in the corporate world. In the …

Synergistic Leaders Read More »

Everyone has personal biases to some degree, and they are deeply embedded. For example, some people in a project group may quickly conclude that a colleague who is a frequent party goer is considered a low productivity team member. Any employee of the company who takes more vacation time than the other may be perceived …

The Time I Almost Let Bias Remove a Star Performer from my Team Read More »

During a recent business networking reception in Chicago, I met Charles, an old friend of mine. A few weeks back, he was a senior executive of an IT company focused on hospitality solutions in the Midwest. Over a glass of wine, he shared that his company CEO was making changes in the executive management team …

Is Age Bias in Leadership Real? Read More »

Ask your friends, colleagues, and business leaders to define digital transformation.  You will get different and sometimes conflicting definitions of what it is.  The fact is that digital transformation means different things to different organizations.  It depends on the needed and desired outcomes, the industry, the competition, the existing culture of the organization, and a …

5 Things You Might Not Know About Digital Transformation Read More »

For most people, digital transformation is much like the story of the six blind men and the elephant: different pieces but no coherent overall picture. For some, it’s like the sides of the pachyderm in John Godfrey Saxes’ poem: a wall. For others, it’s like the trunk, snake-like and hard to get a handle on. For yet …

How to Build Momentum with a Digital Transformation Strategy Read More »

Apal Business November 16, 2022 In late 2017, my wife asked me a simple question – how she should invest $10,000 in various stocks to maximize her profits or, in adverse moments, minimizes her losses. The only answer I had for her was that I know the technology industry, and these five companies are doing …

A new approach to Portfolio Allocation addressing Portfolio Rebalancing and Cash Holdback issues Read More »