Seven roundtables, 35 senior IT executives, 630 minutes of conversation about cloud… and one vital question: why go hybrid? This is what our panellists said.   hy·brid noun \ˈhī-brəd\ Something that is formed by combining two or more things I like to think I was raised a polite chap, so it feels wrong to speak ...

Napoleon Hill famously wrote about the secrets of the successful, and what he started, thousands have continued. I have been writing about business for over 15 years, and my bookshelves groan under the weight of ‘executive’ reading: some brilliant, some controversial, some faddish, some out of date even before they were published. Like diet books, ...

Stop waking up in a cold sweat and send us your business challenge. We will research and find answers from current interviews, and put it to current interviewees and roundtable attendees. We’ll publish their answers here, and be sure to let you know. It may make for uncomfortable reading, but it’s coming from a good ...

When was the last time you tried to hold your breath? In the bath? Driving through a tunnel? In the pool as a kid? Wherever it was, I bet you never managed to pop the three-minute bubble – let alone hit seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds. Why seven minutes and twenty-nine seconds? Because that’s where ...

What do you call a man with no shins? Tony. That’s why I’m not a professional stand-up comic. Fortunately, with regular slots on BBC’s Radio 4 shows, sell-out tours across the UK to critical acclaim and a veritable treasure chest of TV appearances to force upon her grandchildren one day – we can safely assume ...

Between April 2012 and April 2013, summit organizer GDS International gathered together 231 North American CIOs, vice presidents and IT directors for a collective 7.5 days of structured conversation, learning and networking. Last month, they handed MeetTheBoss TV the resultant data and asked us to write about it. You can download the full CIO U.S. IT ...

@MeetTheBossTV We’ve heard the quote recycled by plenty from our good ole’ buddies at HubSpot: “…by 2013, 90% of internet traffic to is expected to be video.” And yet, here we stand in 2013 – and are we really that surprised? Nope. Take a look at the golden boy of online video, YouTube. Seventy-two hours of ...

In this week’s round-up, we take a sneak peak at a couple of big interviews on the radar. Listen up, shops. It’s not Christmas and we’re not buying any Santa hats, wrapping paper or faux-trees until at least the 24th December. Fortunately, you’ll only see such over-hyped nonsense in the world of bricks and mortar. When ...

Welcome to the cloud. Would you like your service public, private or hybrid? Indeed, the three staples of cloud as we know them today are anything but. As organisations across the globe – agnostic of industry – jostle to define what the cloud means to them, the discussion continues in earnest for CIOs and Heads ...

If you ever wanted a lesson on good leadership, you’d be hard pushed to find one better than the awesome display of ingenuity displayed by Tony Hsieh, CEO Zappos.com, last week. News transpired that internet retailer 6pm.com had, mistakenly priced almost all of its products at $49.99. The error was pretty unforgiving, given that some ...