{"id":7791,"date":"2014-04-04T13:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=7791"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:46:47","slug":"weekly-recap-20-great-ideas-to-steal-in-2014-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/weekly-recap-20-great-ideas-to-steal-in-2014-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Recap: 20 great ideas to steal in 2014, and more&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Education\" alt=\"Education\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Education.jpg\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>Summary: This week&#8217;s top articles focus on 20 great ideas to steal this year, the coming cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics, the benefits of hybrid apps, and the confusion surrounding PaaS. <\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"20140401\"><\/a><!--more--><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140404_20GreatIdeasToSteal_PaaS']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/cloud\/platform-as-a-service\/what-is-platform-as-a-service-experts-disagree\/d\/d-id\/1141665?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">What is Platform-as-a-Service? Experts disagree<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nNo one agrees on the definition of PaaS, but a few things are certain: PaaS solutions are helping companies <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Build Web apps']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/build-a-web-and-mobile-app-in-30-minutes-without-programming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">create and deploy applications quickly<\/span><\/a>. Who doesn\u2019t want that?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140404_20GreatIdeasToSteal_Ideas']); \" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/strategic-cio\/executive-insights-and-innovation\/20-great-ideas-to-steal-in-2014\/d\/d-id\/1127806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">20 great ideas to steal in 2014<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nHere\u2019s a list of 20 companies whose IT projects have transformed their businesses. The overriding theme in many of these projects: mobile and data analytics. More and more companies are finding new ways mobile can apply to the business world&#8211;and this list is just the tip of the iceberg. Here\u2019s <span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">another great example<\/span> that I love: It\u2019s about a company that\u2019s using mobile devices to automate their receiving process.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140404_20GreatIdeasToSteal_Analytics']); \" href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2014\/03\/30\/the-cloud-fueled-disruption-of-business-analytics-is-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">The cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics is coming<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nBusiness analytics (BA) is ripe for transformation, yet the field as a whole has yet to realize the full benefits of cloud, and enterprise agility is suffering as result. The key: If you want your employees thinking strategically, empower them with <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'Need For Self Service']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-need-for-self-service-reporting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">access to data<\/span><\/a>. Make data analysis intuitive; yet feature-rich, flexible and relevant.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Outbound Link', '20140404_20GreatIdeasToSteal_Hybrid']); \" href=\"http:\/\/appdevelopermagazine.com\/1277\/2014\/4\/1\/Hybrid-Web-Applications:-The-Best-of-All-Worlds-for-Mobile-Application-Development\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #1772af; font: normal bold 12pt\/1.2em Arial, Verdana, Helvetica;\">Hybrid mobile apps: The best of both worlds?<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nWith the ever-changing mobile landscape, how can you create mobile apps that offer power and flexibility? This article explains why anyone considering native mobile apps should look instead at a hybrid approach. What&#8217;s the difference? Here&#8217;s <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', 'mobile']); \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/research\/whitepapers\/NativeAppsWrongChoice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: red;font-weight: bold\">a paper that outlines the pros and cons of each mobile app method<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: This week&#8217;s top articles focus on 20 great ideas to steal this year, the coming cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics, the benefits of hybrid apps, and the confusion surrounding PaaS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"Weekly Recap: 20 great ideas to steal in 2014, and more... - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Summary: This week's top articles focus on 20 great ideas to steal this year, the coming cloud-fueled disruption of business analytics, the benefits of hybrid a"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7791"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13760,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7791\/revisions\/13760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}