Intuit has a great write up with some top business trends for 2015.  Our favorite, a practice called "anti-marketing":

...instead of focusing all their attention on finding new customers, many of today’s businesses invest effort in identifying the people they don’t want to target. Also known as anti-personas, these customers don’t represent a good fit for your business, and marketing to them will likely be a waste of time. For example, a landscaping company is unlikely to sell its services to someone who lives in an apartment.

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With everything running on the network, the cabling infrastructure specification decision (as well as power) is more important than ever, because it's this backbone that will prepare the end user and their facility for the future... In fact the cabling infrastructure is only two percent of the cost of a network while it can cause up to 50 percent of the network problems.

In 2009, Anixter identifies cabling infrastructure as the #1 overlooked costly network element.  What are your thoughts on overlooked aspects of cabling and wiring in 2015?