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The World Trade Center Institute is doing its part to keep us virtually connected through a series of webinars exploring the impact of COVID-19 and how our global business community can emerge stronger. To tackle the topic of disruption, series organizer Lydia Yodie turned to an industry that has some experience with it: the tech sector.   Serving as moderator, Mind Over Machines VP of Innovation…

Digital transformation and customer experience investments are among those least likely to be cut because they are essential to survival and future growth.

COVID-19 has launched us into the world’s largest work-from-home experiment, one nobody had much time to prepare for. While knowledge workers struggle to develop new time-management, boundary-setting and transition rituals, tech leaders at the helm of knowledge-driven companies are trying to find the best ways to enable remote work. Our VP of Innovation & Strategy,…

Global business spent $189 billion last year on big data and business analytics solutions, and IDC says that number will climb to $274B by 2022. Yet Gartner reports 91% of organizations fall short of “transformational” data and analytics. What are we doing wrong? Maybe the problem is how companies think about their data. Data used…

When you peruse our newly revamped website, you see overarching tech strategy is the heart of what we do. AI, BI, automation and enterprise software systems designed to disruption-proof your business. But sometimes it’s okay to take a break from all that intensive forward-thinking to make sure you’re getting the most out of what you…

It’s a new year, and your business has new software needs. You’re a functional professional who knows how to get things done in this modern era, so you Google “build or buy software.” Here’s the problem: A lot has changed in enterprise tech over the last few years, so you’re going to run across outdated…

Every top-level executive will tell you people are their organization’s greatest asset. The human resources profession was created to find, engage and retain that #1 asset. HR is supposed to advocate for people. It seems counterintuitive, but computers can make your workplace more human, and it starts with automating certain HR processes.

A prestigious university and hospital system was working through financial analysis with too many spreadsheets that took too long to pull and verify. They needed real-time dashboards and quick-to-market development help! Enter Mind Over Machines.

Does the technology your company runs on adequately support your people? How can you tell? If your tech platform needs to be reinforced, where do you start? This white paper provides a people-first roadmap toward solid business technology that works as hard as you do. After reading it, you will have the formula for how to create, care for and feed your human-centric technology platform.

Data storytelling is the most powerful tool your organization has to motivate your team into acting on business intelligence (BI). But data storytelling isn’t just charts and graphs. It’s much more than clear, concise data visualizations. So, how do you tell a compelling data story that inspires action and elicits change? I’m so glad you asked!

Humans have been telling stories for as long as we’ve been on this planet. Our stories connect us and help us make sense of the world. In his book “The Storytelling Animal,” Jonathan Gottschall says our love of narrative is what sets people apart from all other species. Now that our economy increasingly runs on data, it makes perfect sense that we humans need to storify all those facts and figures in order to really engage

Every business has to grapple with the legacy terror this client was facing: You’ve outgrown a core system, but it’s so intrinsic to daily operations that you just can’t replace it.