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Unybrands brings in $300M to acquire more e-commerce businesses

TechCrunch

Unybrands looks for brands across eight categories, including baby, garden and outdoor, sports and fitness and personal care, and provides capital and resources to grow those brands. We’ve been able to accelerate our business plan across all fronts, including acquisitions, technology and team building.

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Higher-ed CIOs embrace academia’s AI challenges

CIO

So students should learn about how to use the technology, and how to manage teams that use the tools — especially engineering teams. Building a team is becoming much more complicated because the inherent tendency among technical individuals to work alone is enhanced by AI,” says Lev Gonick, CIO of Arizona State University. “But

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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Angela Engel Champions the Perficient Brand By Building Client Relationships

Perficient

Within the last couple of years, we have grown our presence in Latin America, and we’re engaged on a weekly basis with the leadership team to receive different resources for our projects. I went to Nagpur for the first time last year to meet our teams. Building camaraderie is one of the best parts of my job.

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IT leaders get creative to fill data science gaps

CIO

It’s a team sport, for sure.”. Since filling out their data team has been “very difficult,” Khare said they are heavily focused on internal training. We brought this person from the legal team to the analytics team to train in data science. Focusing on team building. More advanced companies get that.

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Eight Executives Offer Their Best Advice on Building a Team of Go-To People

Next Level Blog

Here’s the best advice from each of the eight executives on how to build a go-to team: Create a Safe Environment. Step one is to create a safe environment for the team. Then coach the team to find best solutions by embracing dynamic tension and bold creativity.”. Give your team the opportunity to front up.

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People of Perficient: Meet Maria Fernanda Avendaño, Sr. Business Consultant  

Perficient

We recently sat down with Maria Fernanda Avendaño from the LATAM team to learn more about how she #MakesADifference at Perficient and one of her hidden talents that you will discover if you keep reading her People of Perficient profile. How do you explain your job to family, friends, or children?

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