The Software Advice Blog

Many organizations are shifting away from issuing their employees mobile devices and instead adopting policies allowing employees to use their own mobile devices for work purposes. I’d like to learn more about what employers are doing regarding BYOD. Please help us by completing this brief survey.

New start-ups are launching every day that change how consumers buy and how merchants sell. While most of us know Facebook, Foursquare and Groupon, I’ve put together a list of the six new companies that I’m most excited about. I’d also like your feedback. Which company do you feel has the greatest chance to impact retail?

The support team environment is a demanding one, where support agents can get easily burned out, leading to a high turnover rate. In this article, I focus on how adding gaming elements can can boost employee retention by providing help desk agents with a sense of accomplishment.

Current trends suggest that the status quo of long-distance food distribution may be primed for disruption. Increased consumer demand for locally-grown organic foods, coupled with a renewed interest in living in urban cores and rising gas prices, collectively suggest that U.S. food distribution networks will soon need to evolve.

Today there are more than 7,000 unique job titles in the facility management industry, according to an IFMA report. With input from several industry experts, I have narrowed down a list of the top 5 career opportunities you should know about, along with the degrees and accreditations necessary to achieve these roles.

While an acquisition in and of itself may not be cause for concern, how it impacts your organization is something leadership expects you to manage with care. Your executives will be coming to you with questions. You need to be prepared with some answers, and I’ve put together some suggestions on managing the uncertainty.

Women are responsible for making the health care decisions for their children in 80% of families, according to a 2010 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation. So it’s surprising we women are underrepresented in the world of health IT–one of the most important segments of health care.

Running a major tech company has to be one of the harder callings in business today. Not only do you have to be an extremely innovative individual, but you also need the innate ability to lead and extract the most out of your employees. Here’s a list of the standout winners and losers of the various tech executives in history.

So, you want to bring marketing automation into your 2012 marketing toolbox? You’ve attended the demos, you’ve read the case studies and now you are about to schedule a meeting with your boss to propose implementing MA software. How do you justify the benefits of MA to your boss when resources are tight?

According to Wanted Analytics, over 49,000 supply chain jobs were posted online in the last three months alone, up 24 percent from the same period last year. Additionally, these positions have become increasingly strategic. In this article, I look at which jobs are in high demand and the skills necessary for success.