Staples" $6.3 billion merger with Office Depot is still stuck at the gate amid media accounts about whether regulators would give approval. If the deal is consummated, it could mean that Office Depot will take flight from its 625,000-square-foot headquarters in Boca Raton, leaving another empty...
Much has been made of the emerging market for IoT (Internet of Things) or, as we at Citrix say, the Integration of Everything (IoE). From negligible impact in 2010, IoT is expected to grow to more than 8 billion connected devices in 2018. Many of the...
Organizations often overlook their greatest potential source of power: the power to increase sales performance by developing their people. Training is an integral part of sales-force development. But this goes beyond initial product training to include ongoing process training: prospecting, calling at the top of an...
This month, our topics ranged from franchising to Little Havana to European real estate investing trends. Chad Bozza, senior vice president of fund investments and asset management at Munich-based BVT Equity Holdings, told the audience that European appetite for U.S. real estate investing is extraordinarily strong...
"Technique and technology are important, but adding trust is the issue of the decade." - Tom Peters While businesses fight to win on strategy, product, innovation and route to market, the biggest intangible asset of all languishes in the corner, condemned as soft, fluffy and irrelevant....
Outstanding Up & Comers Welcome to the SFBW Up & Comers awards section, celebrating the top achievers under the age of 40 throughout South Florida. This is the second year for our Up & Comers event and the popularity has grown. SFBW has quickly become South Florida's...
Born in Syracuse, New York, and raised in Ghana, West Africa, Mary Spio didn't see a computer or a color television until she was 17. Still, she always had a fascination with technology and, despite her humble beginnings, that deep-seated interest led her to not...
Crowdfunding may have been invented for the masses, but it's turning into a story about big business and big numbers. Here are some of the signs: " Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is expected to hit $77 billion this year, up 15 times according to Bloomberg News. Goldman Sachs...
"Fort Lauderdale comes to Miami sometimes - but this is going to be the opposite. Miami is going to Fort Lauderdale to get away from it all," says Jared Galbut, the managing principal of Menin Hospitality.Galbut and business partner/cousin Keith Menin are bringing their South...
A flurry of M&A action is reshaping South Florida's commercial real estate brokerage and third-party services landscape. The Colliers International brand has shrunk; the Avison Young name has risen rapidly; Texas tenant representation powerhouse Mohr Partners has opened its first office; and London-based Savills got...
