The Kinetic Business Blog

Companies across the globe are grappling with a big question brought on by the pandemic, something that has nothing to do with vaccines or masks or even supply chain. 

Many businesses have refined their work arrangements with the realization that they have to in order to attract and retain the best talent. 

Statistics show that as a nation we are increasingly nomadic when it comes to our jobs. Call it job-hopping or The Great Resignation, blame it on an age group or the pandemic, but the stats are what they are.

The digital transformation healthcare workers and providers endured over the past two years has shifted the way the industry operates. Physicians, nurses, physical therapists and patients alike all found themselves in unknown territory when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A Healthcare IT article revealed that in 2020, healthcare organizations saw patient behaviors radically shift and...

When video calls became the norm in mid 2020, it represented a sea change in how people connected and communicated, particularly in business settings. As challenging as it was for companies to adjust to mass travel restrictions, office lockdowns and remote employees, imagine how much more difficult it would have been without HD Meeting. 

The COVID pandemic didn’t invent cloud computing, or even usher it to the forefront of the workplace. But what the pandemic did do was change forever the way that we work and how the workplace functions from adopting remote work arrangements to dealing with travel restrictions. 

For companies both large and small, there’s always one lingering question: what’s coming in the future and how do I get my business there? The future is predictable, but the outcomes are not. As we kickoff 2022, we sit down with Business Futurist Cecily Sommers to discuss business trends, habits of mind, organizational needs and more to help your business stay the course no matter what the future holds.

There’s an old idiom that says, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it.” A foundational principle for communication, the saying suggests people can hear the same message in two different ways and react very differently. Tell me good news in a way I don’t like, and I’ll wonder where’s the catch. Give me bad news in a way that shows empathy and compassion, and I’ll follow you to the moon.