Silicon Valley Innovation Center | Digital Transformation

Innovation accelerates a business growth. Without them, your business cannot progress further. Therefore, to ensure constant innovation, you need to cultivate a culture of innovation. The main reason why Silicon Valley's companies are so successful is the integration of innovation strategy into overall business strategy. Their employees have the freedom to explore and take the risk. They are motivated to share their ideas and collaborate among themselves. Since many surveys show that the most powerful driver of innovation is the culture, this is the best way to accelerate innovation. Find out how leaders can create a culture of innovation. Connect your organization At the time of continuous change, you need to change constantly as well. In this regard, first, you need to explain to your employees that the change is the necessity and the main condition of survival in today's changing environment. When they accept the change as normality, it will be much easier to cre...

As usual at the beginning of the year we are asking ourselves what will bring the new year, which trends will confirm, and which will disappear. Similarly concerning the technology in real estate, many would be curious to find out the real estate technology trends. Technology is everywhere and integrant part of our lives, and in real estate this is more and more true day passing. Consumers’ behavior and market parameters are continuously shifting and push the technology in real estate at a maturity stage. Actors of the industry need to understand correctly which are the driving forces that lead the change: Online Brand Awareness  Real estate customers have now the habit to search online first, when they need to sell or buy a property. 2018 will see further expansion of online accessible information and transparency concerning real estate assets. Investors need a better base to make better and faster decisions to allocate the capital they detain, and real estate brokers ...

In line with the rapidly growing economy, there is a growing need for transportation services. In this regard, transportation industry needs to improve as well. However, a simple grow is not enough. As in all other industries, only companies with disruptive innovation can be on the top of the market. Thus, if you want to be in that group, you need to be an innovator or to apply the new transportation inventions that will provide you opportunities for the faster growth and more substantial income. In this regard, take a look what the current and future transportation trends to prepare you on time are. Development of new transportation technology The last year indeed was the breakthrough year for transportation and mobility. Transportation technology had an extraordinary growth and provided many new inventions that have disrupted transportation industry. It is now driven by connectivity services, shared mobility, upgraded feature, and other disruptive transportation technology...

The advent of new technologies in finance lived a glorious moment with the appearance of blockchain and cryptocurrency. Among the  financial technology trends of this year cryptocurrencies are on top , but how they will evolve further is still a risky bet. Step by step, cryptocurrencies gained awareness and these days are generating vivid polemics thanks to their  sharp skyrocketing  on exchanges. But  they are mostly used as payment method for online acquisitions. As digital currencies backed up by encryption technology,  they operate independently from the traditional banking system and are accepted as cash in different countries.  Besides investing in cryptocurrencies, a more mundane question is nowadays if businesses should include them among their payment options or not. Each business should consider the pros and cons on its individual case. Anyway, cryptocurrencies present some heavy to ignore advantages as follows: Costs reduction Yea...

When someone says Silicon Valley, the first thoughts are fast growth, large profit, and constant innovation. Here are developed today’s greatest inventions. Not so long ago, they also were small. But they continuously replace a year or two old devices with the new. Much more advanced inventions. In recent years, tech advancement has been so significant that has completely disrupted businesses and lives. Many wonder what their secret is? What drives them to be so much better and more innovative than others? The answer is simple — the culture of innovation. Let’s tap into the Silicon Valley culture of innovation to see how they do it. Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation The main strength of tech companies lies in their culture of  innovation . They have a constant desire to progress and be better than others, but they also want to surpass themselves, to be better every day. They develop skills, accept the challenge and take the risk. They are always ready for act...

As has been said many times - employees are the most valuable asset of any company. If your goal is a success, you need to have skilled and engaged employees. However, you also need to retain your top talent in your company. You invested in them, so you cannot easily let them go to your competitors, isn't it? However, retaining of talents is not an easy task. They know how much they are worth and expect to give them more than competitors would give them. Only in this way, they will stay loyal to you. Here are five tips how you can retain your top talents. Use transformational leadership style A transformational leader supports employees, takes care of them and motivates them to follow him voluntary instead of forcing them to work what he says. He builds a culture of change and cooperation where all can freely express their ideas and thus contribute to the company's progress. He focuses the team building, talent development, and collaboration. If you are able to reach ...