New Horizons Blog and Resources

If you’ve been in a manager position at all in the last few years, you probably know the pain that comes with saying goodbye to a valuable team member who holds a lot of institutional knowledge and going through the lengthy hiring process of reviewing applications, giving multiple rounds of interviews, and finally getting your new hire up to speed on their role and your company. The Great Resignation reminded us all of the importance of retaining great employees. Not only does employee retention prevent the disruption of projects and goals, it also saves companies time and thousands of dollars. Besides toxic company culture and low salary, many employees cite poor management as one of the main reasons they’ll leave a job. Read these tips on how to be a good manager and foster a work environment employees want to stick around for.

Many things in life are the victims of “Hollywood education”, where things as shown in movies and tv shows don’t work that way in the real world. For example, in Hollywood cars burst into flames and spectacular explosions in mid-air, for no apparent reason. In real life, car crashes only occasionally cause fires, and then only after impact. In this blog, we'll discuss two common misconceptions associated with hacking and shed some light on how hacking works.

Tim Dorton will serve as the Leadership Architect and Director of The Center for Leadership Development and Advisory Services. In this role, Dorton will oversee the Center for Leadership and Development’s sales initiatives and foster strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 clients for the promotion of the Leadership & Development Advisory Services.

Cloud-based IT infrastructures drive nearly every aspect of your business, from an employee’s work-from-home environment to ensuring goods and services are sold and delivered. When adequately designed, your cloud infrastructure can be continuously optimized to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and improve communications.

In today’s uncertain business environment, you need to move quickly to seize opportunities ahead of the competition. The ability to develop and launch solutions to market with speed lies in the power of modern release pipelines. Modern release data pipelines allow development teams to deploy new features fast and safely.

The challenge for most businesses today is no longer capturing data but whether you can use the information you already have which is why the world's biggest companies are figuring out how to use Power BI to increase profits. Business Intelligence (BI) is the pathway for using Big Data to drive action. BI tools make it possible for teams to explore and manage data quickly to make faster decisions, with a big-picture view of operations.