Chief Executive Article “Cybersecurity: Getting Serious About Safeguards”

as seen in Chief Executive Magazine | January 28, 2016

Attacks on large companies make headlines, but smaller companies, too, suffer cyberattacks. Here’s how to protect your business.

Chuck Provini knows he has a bright red bulls-eye painted on his back. As CEO of startup Natcore Technology, he hopes to develop technologies that will render the use of silicon crystals to make solar energy panels obsolete. Provini’s Rochester, New York-based company, which works with U.S. Department of Energy research labs, among others, to develop new technologies, represents a threat to China’s solar energy industry.

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The Human Microbiome

Repost, as published by the author in Compass Magazine Why the bacteria inside us may be the next medical revolution The average human carries 20,000 different species of bacteria in his or her digestive system, weighing an estimated 2 to 3 pounds (0.9 – 1.4 kg). Researchers are beginning to understand how these bacteria, collectively […]…

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SMB Advantage

How cloud computing is helping smaller companies compete globally For decades, the high cost of computer hardware and software put small and medium businesses (SMBs) at a competitive disadvantage, especially as they sought to expand beyond their home countries. But cloud computing, which allows SMBs to access hardware and software on a pay-as-you-go basis, is […]…

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How Big Data Is Transforming Top Management

I covered a roundtable discussion on this subject and wrote my analysis for Chief Executive magazine. The bottom line is that analyzing Big Data once seemed like it would be the exclusive realm of the geeks in the IT department, but now it is turning out that even chief executives have to understand certain data […]…

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AT&T Is Not Your Grandfather’s Ma Bell Anymore

Repost of author’s article as written in Chief Executive magazine | August 18, 2015 by William J Holstein AT&T’s purchase of DirecTV could transform the entire phone and television industries, and serves as a lesson in digital transformation for all CEOs to watch and learn from. Usually when the CEOs of large incumbent companies launch […]…

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